This document outlines the curriculum for a Business Organization and Management course, providing general and specific learning outcomes, activities, assignments and assessments for four main topics: ethics, business environment, management and human resources, and international business. The aim is for the curriculum to be easy for new teachers to follow while reflecting current realities and including ideas for project-based and universally designed learning.
3. Aim of Curriculum
Easy for new teachers to follow
Updated to reflect current and
present reality
Provide ideas for assignments,
assessments and strategies to help
deliver the course
Project Based Learning and
Universal Design for Learning
4. Difference between
BOM and Entrepreneurship
BOM is the theory and ideas
behind business.
Similar to university Introduction to Business
course
Entrepreneurship is about the
creating and doing of business.
6. GCO 1
Students will identify the
differences between ethical and
unethical behavior.
7. Ethics
Why is it important for students to
learn about ethics?
It is something that you
need to be aware of if
you are going to be a
leader, guiding people
and a company.
Leaders are responsible members
of a wider community.
8. To Thrive in the
21st Century
You must have the ability to assess
what is right and wrong, what
decisions will impact not only
your business but the community
outside your door.
9. Activities
Better Business Dilemma Game
The interactive game has students make ethical decisions with
instant feedback.
The game explains how their responses impact each stakeholder
group. (e.g. Government, Employees, Customers, Suppliers,
Community, Owner or Investors)
This activity is great for generating discussion.
It helps the students to develop the concept of
stakeholders, who they are and why they care.
10. Activities
Video – The High Cost of Low Price
Wal-Mart documentary
Students can draw comparisons between the
video and their own communities.
This documentary brings into account the global
impact a business and their decisions can have.
Case studies from the following magazines:
Atlantic Progress and Canadian Business
and Inc.
12. GCO 2
Students will identify
the variables and
complexities that
affect managerial
decision making in
New Brunswick.
13. Specific Outcomes
Review the six elements of the business
environment and analyze their importance to
organizations.
14. Specific Outcomes
Students will compare the different
forms of business
Sole Proprietorship
Partnerships
Corporation
Cooperatives
Franchises
Students will understand the relationship
between the three levels of business
Local, Provincial and National/Global
19. Activities
Case Studies
The Times 100, Wallace McCain Institute,
Inc. Magazine
Role playing
Revamp the School Mission Statement or assume a
management role of a local business and develop a SWOT
Analysis
News articles/videos
CBC News, Undercover Boss or Atlantic Progress Magazine
Projects/presentations
20. Summative
Assessment
Job Fair
• Creation of a company
• Job descriptions
• Advertisements
• Interviews
• Resumes and cover letters
• Sample advertisements:
http://hoadley.wikispaces.com/Job+Fair
22. SCOs
SCO 1 – Terminology
SCO 2 – Benefits and drawbacks of international
trade in Canada
SCO 3 - Describe the effects of barriers and
obstacles to international business activity
23. SCOs
SCO 4 - Describe various international
agreements and organizations that
have influenced global business
activity and describe Canada’s
involvement
SCO 5 - Describe the modifications
made to goods and services to adapt
them to the cultures of other countries
SCO 6 - Describe the challenges an
international company may encounter
with regard to ethics, values, language
and protocol and customs
SCO 7 - Explain how changes in the
value of the Canadian dollar can
affect business opportunities.
24. Assignments and
Project
Map it Out
Time Zones
Getting to Know
International
Currencies
Global Corporate
Research
International
Business Deal
26. Contact Information
Kim Black, Business and Technology Teacher
Harrison Trimble High School
80 Echo Drive
Moncton, NB E1C 3H8
Phone: (506) 856-3417
Email: Kim.Black@nbed.nb.ca
Wiki: https://d2bom120.pbworks.com