Team Decision Making Events are events done with a partner. Each partner takes the same test and their scores are averaged together to produce a single team score that accounts for 33% of your overall score. Role plays are typically longer in nature & include 7 performance indicators on each rubric. Students have 30 minutes to look over their role play collectively & 15 minutes to present their ideas.
Business Law and Ethics (Business Management Test)
Financial Services (Finance Test)
Hospitality Services (Hospitality Test)
Marketing Management (Marketing Test)
Sports and Entertainment Marketing (Marketing Test)
Travel and Tourism (Hospitality Test)
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Business Law and Ethics (Business Management Test)
- For the purposes of this event, business law is U.S. law and will include contracts, product liability, employment and types of business ownership. The ethics component involves evaluating competing social values that may reasonably be argued from either side.
- Employees in buying and merchandising positions get the product into the hands of the customer. This process includes forecasting, planning, buying, displaying, selling and providing customer service.
- Entrepreneurship includes the ability to recognize opportunities and to act on them, determine needs, identify markets, utilize marketing research, identify sources of capital and use management skills.
Financial Services (Finance Test)
- Students will refer to services offered in the finance industry by financial institutions. Concepts include understanding the source and purpose of financial statements, the impact of management decisions on statements, and the analysis and interpretation of data for planning purposes.
Hospitality Services (Hospitality Test)
- Marketing and management functions and tasks that can be applied in hotels, motels, lodging services, related convention services, and related food and beverage services.
Marketing Management (Marketing Test)
- Marketing management includes marketing and management functions and tasks that can be applied broadly in a non-retail marketing environment
Sports and Entertainment Marketing (Marketing Test)
- Marketing functions and tasks that can be applied in amateur or professional sports or sporting events, entertainment or entertainment events, selling or renting of supplies and equipment (other than vehicles) used for recreational or sporting purposes, products and services related to hobbies or cultural events, or businesses primarily engaged in satisfying the desire to make productive or enjoyable use of leisure time.
Travel and Tourism (Hospitality Test)
- Marketing and management functions and tasks that can be applied in enterprises engaged in passenger transportation, travel service, attracting and serving the traveling public, arranging tours or acting as independent ticket agencies, and other services incidental to the travel or tourism industry.
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