Business 2024 · Oct/Nov · Paper 32

Analyse two impacts on HCC of the increase in competition in country E.

Analyse two factors influencing HCC' s method of entry into international markets.

Refer to Table 1.1. Calculate annual labour productivity for 2023.

Refer to Table 1.1. Calculate the rate of absenteeism for 2023.

Evaluate HCC's approach to human resource management (HRM).

Refer to Table 1.2. Calculate for 2023-24, the operating profit margin.

Evaluate methods HCC could use to increase profitability .

Evaluate the usefulness to HCC of critical path analysis (CP A) as a management tool for operations planning. BLANK PAGE * 0000800000010 * BLANK PAGE * 0000800000011 * Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable ef fort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge Assessment International Education Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download at www.cambridgeinternational.org after the live examination series. Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is a department of the University of Cambridge. BLANK PAGE * 0000800000012 *