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Understanding the Purpose & Nature of Work

GCSE ECONOMICS: UNIT 11

Part One

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Aims of today’s lesson …

• State what ‘work’ means

• Understand why people work or choose not to work

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What does ‘work’ mean?

• ‘Work’ refers to paid work – where people perform jobs in exchange for money and other benefits

• The person working is often referred to as an employee, while the business employing the worker(s) is known as the employer

• The distinction is not clear when a person is self employed (i.e. they work for themselves)

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Why do people work?

• There are a number of reasons why someone will choose to work

Pay Job Satisfaction

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Different ways of working…

• Write down your own definitions and examples of the following types of employment;

• Full time• Part time• Temporary• Seasonal

Use the Case Study to help

you!

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Over to you...

• Open and compete Activities 1, 2 and 3 on the document called...

“Case Study”

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Why might people not work?

• A large section of the UK adult population do not work

• Can you identify the main reasons for not working?

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Plenary: what have you learnt?

SECTION 2WORK Smiley Faces

Draw smiley faces to indicate how comfortable you are with the topic.

Ready to move on

Understand some parts but not all

Do not understand and need to look at it

again