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Vocabulary
Business in the Real World
200

The result of an action.

What is a consequence

200

When the prices of bananas increase, the quantity of bananas offered for sale will increase. This is an example of the law of ________.

What is supply

200

A group of individuals wants to open a museum that will display items from early settlers of the area. The group will charge just enough admission to pay the museum’s operating expenses.

Will the museum be a business and IF SO, is it a not-for-profit or a for-profit business?

What is yes, the museum will be a not-for-profit business?

200

This vocabulary word means instinct or gut feeling.

What is Intuition?

200

Give ONE example of human resources at Chick-Fil-A. 

What is: managers, drive-thru workers, cashiers, cooks, cleaners, drink operator, etc.

400

An issue in which you must decide whether something is right or wrong.

What is an ethical dilemma

400

An indication of how changes in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied.

What is elasticity

400

The process of accessing, processing, maintaining, evaluating, and disseminating business knowledge, facts, or data.

What is information management

400

This is a risk-response strategy that involves assuming responsibility for the risk rather than transferring it

What is retention?

400

Give an example of a CAPITAL GOOD for a farmer.

What is a tractor, farming tools, barn, etc.

600

Patty knows that some of her bosses actions are unethical. Patty considers her boss to be a _______ and decides not to follow her bosses examples.

What is a bad role model.

600

A market structure in which there are relatively few sellers, and industry leaders usually determine price.

What is an oligopoly

600

The process of creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

What is marketing

600

This is an economic system in which all or many of the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the government.

What is a command economy

600

Explain BOTH the Law of Supply and the Law of Demand.

LOS - As prices increase, suppliers are willing to SELL MORE

LOD - As prices increase, consumers are willing to BUY LESS

800

Adhering to an established set of personal ethics and sound moral principles; acting with honesty in all situations.

What is integrity

800

In 1890, Congress passed a law that prevents monopolies from forming and hinders price fixing. This law is called:

A. Clayton Act
B. Robinson-Patman Act
C. Sherman Antitrust Act
D. Celler-Kefauver Antimerger Act

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act

800

This behavior best describes the primary business activity of operations.

What is producing goods and services?

800

This is a business that buys consumer goods or services and sells them to the ultimate consumer.

What is a retailer

800

Explain how a company determines their profit for a given period.

**There are two key aspects to determining profit**

What is revenue - expenses?

(Income - expenses)

(Money we made - money we spent) 

1000

Jason thinks it is OK to steal a few things from work. He is lacking THIS ethical principal.

What is trustworthiness

1000

Arc Electric Company holds regular safety training meetings for its employees. This form of risk management is __________.

What is reduction?

1000

In the human resource management process, this is the first task to be completed for staffing.

What is determining need

1000

This is short-range planning (one year) of specific actions the business will take.

What is tactical planning

1000

Explain how a company would demonstrate risk retention AND risk reduction in a single action.

What is anything that reduces risk, because they are reducing it but keeping it.


ex. Putting mats near doors in rainy weather
     Training employees on safety
     Providing hard hats to workers