AQA A Level Business Studies Paper 3: Business 3 June 2025 question paper 7132/3

Use Lewin’s force field model to analyse why VBM is making major changes now.

Analyse the impact of the proposed retrenchment on VBM’s marketing activities in Europe.

VBM’s Operations Director believes that the new factory could be opened in a year.

Do you agree?

Justify your view by using the data in Appendix C and other information provided.

VBM has major Human Resource challenges such as:

recruitment and training for the factory in Vietnam

managing redundancies in Europe.

Which of these two challenges is likely to be harder to manage effectively?

Justify your view.

To what extent do you agree that VBM’s biggest threat is changes in legislation?

Effective capacity management involves ensuring a business has the right level of capacity in the right place to match demand.

To what extent is effective capacity management always harder for large, multinational businesses than small businesses?