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Lesson Plan
Grade: Date: 17/01/2026
Subject: Business
Lesson Topic: the influence of human, marketing and finance resource availability on operations decisions
Learning Objective/s:
  • Describe how human resource availability influences operational decisions such as technology choice and capacity.
  • Explain the impact of marketing resources on production planning, product variety and logistics.
  • Analyse how financial constraints shape decisions about equipment investment, inventory levels and quality initiatives.
  • Apply an integrated resource‑analysis framework to a case study and justify an operational recommendation.
Materials Needed:
  • Projector and screen
  • Whiteboard and markers
  • Printed case‑study handout (integrated decision‑making scenario)
  • Worksheet with checklist and practice questions
  • Laptop with spreadsheet software for quick calculations
  • Flip‑chart for group brainstorming
 Introduction:
Begin with a quick poll: “What resource would you check first when deciding how many units to produce?” This activates prior knowledge of resource constraints. Today’s success criteria are to identify the dominant resource, explain its ripple effects on other operational choices, and construct a justified operational decision.
Lesson Structure:
  1. Do‑now (5’) – students answer the poll on sticky notes and share their responses.
  2. Mini‑lecture (10’) – overview of human, marketing, and finance resources and their links to operational decisions, using slide tables.
  3. Guided analysis (15’) – pairs work on the printed case study, filling a three‑column matrix that links each resource to specific operational choices.
  4. Whole‑class debrief (10’) – groups present findings; teacher highlights inter‑dependencies.
  5. Application activity (15’) – students calculate a simple break‑even for equipment investment and discuss how finance and marketing forecasts affect the decision.
  6. Check for understanding (5’) – exit ticket: write one operational decision and the primary resource driving it.
Conclusion:
Summarise that operational decisions are never isolated; they reflect the balance of human, marketing and financial resources. For the exit ticket, students state a decision and its key resource, reinforcing the lesson’s objective. Assign homework to complete the checklist worksheet and prepare a short paragraph on how a change in one resource could reshape the others.