Business Environments: Control & Adapting to Challenges
Business Environments: Control & Adapting to Challenges is one of 9 topics in the Grade 11 Business Studies CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. Which business environment does a business have the MOST control over?
The micro environment
The market environment
The macro environment
None of the environments
Answer: The micro environment — The micro environment consists of internal elements (vision, mission, resources, management, functions) that a business directly controls and can change.
Easy
2. A trade union that a business negotiates with directly is part of which environment?
The market (task) environment
The micro environment
The macro environment
No environment; unions are not classified
Answer: The market (task) environment — Trade unions are listed among the "other organisations" (alongside CBOs, NGOs, regulators and strategic allies) that make up the market/task environment, since the business deals with them directly.
Medium
3. What word best describes the degree of control a business has over its market environment -- more than "no control" but less than full control?
Answer: Influence — A business has some, but limited, control over the market environment -- more accurately described as influence, since it interacts directly with stakeholders like customers and suppliers but cannot dictate their independent decisions.
