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Teaching guide: Human resources

With a focus on unfamiliar topics, we’ve created this teaching guide to support you in planning your lessons.

Organisation charts provide a visual representation of the structures that will help students to understand the terminology.
Students could calculate the impact on wage/salary bill of removing a middle management layer from a business. They could then calculate how many additional posts at a lower level could be added to the staffing structure.

Zero hour contracts have often been in the news in recent years, including some high-profile companies. Look for news items to use as sources of information.
A series of statements that could be combined to create a set of descriptions for:
the features of contracts (full time, part time, job share and zero hours)
benefits to the business,
drawbacks to the business,
benefits to the employees and
drawbacks to the employees.
Separating the statements produces a series of points that can be used as a matching exercise to consolidate students’ understanding.