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📌 Economic activities are performed to earn money, whereas non-economic activities are performed for social, psychological, physical-fitness, or recreational satisfaction rather than monetary income.
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Economic activities earn money, whereas non-economic activities seek social or psychological satisfaction.
Business seeks profit, profession provides specialized service, and employment provides fixed income.
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📌 A single isolated sale, such as selling an old car, is not business, whereas repeated buying and selling of goods is business.
📌 Business requires investment in land, labour, or capital and involves risk and uncertainty because future returns cannot be predicted or fully controlled.
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Goods and services → exchange → regularity → investment → profit → risk.
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Historical evidence indicates that India had planned cities, admired textiles, jewellery and perfumes, currency, and trader and artisan guilds by about 5000 B.C.
India contributed through:
Self-consumption → surplus production → barter and trade → organized commerce → industrial growth.
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📌 Businesses create customers by providing quality goods and services at reasonable prices and using marketing activities to attract buyers.
📌 Continuous innovation improves products, production, and distribution, reduces costs, increases sales, and supports higher profit.
Customers, innovation, and efficient resources support profit and business survival.
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The social objectives are: production and supply of quality goods and services, adoption of fair trade practices, contribution to the general welfare of society
The human objectives include: economic well-being of employees, social and psychological satisfaction of employees, development of human resources, well-being of socially and economically backward people
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📌 Businesses can support employees through fair remuneration, incentives, welfare facilities, training, career opportunities, attention to grievances, and consideration of suggestions.
Social objectives serve society, while human objectives focus on employee and disadvantaged-person welfare.
The national objectives are:
The global objectives are: raising the general standard of living, reducing disparities among nations, making globally competitive goods and services available
Employment → social justice → national priorities → public revenue → self-sufficiency and exports.
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📌 Business should provide customers with qualitative and affordable products, regular supply, accurate information, after-sales service, prompt grievance settlement, and freedom from adulteration and under-weighing.
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📌 Business should pay taxes honestly, follow government guidelines and pollution norms, avoid restrictive trade practices and corruption, and support employment, weaker groups, culture, sports, and environmental protection.
A business surrounded by owners, employees, customers, government, competitors, suppliers, and society.
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The three main types are:
Air pollution results from unwanted gases and particles released by vehicles, manufacturing plants, atomic plants, oil refineries, burning forests, and coal, and it can cause disease, smog, ozone depletion, global warming, and acid rain.
Water pollution is caused by sewage, human excreta, industrial wastes, agricultural chemicals and fertilizers, and household dumping, and it can cause disease, threaten aquatic life, and create drinking-water scarcity.
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Air, water, and land pollution form the three main environmental categories.
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Business contributes through:
Business controls environmental pollution through preventive, curative, and awareness roles.
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📌 Businesses can reduce pollution by complying with government regulations, planting trees near industrial areas, conserving natural resources, and educating people about pollution causes and consequences.
Prevent damage → cure existing harm → create public awareness.
| Basis | Business | Profession | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary objective | Profit | Service | Fixed income |
| Qualifications | No minimum qualification | Specialized knowledge and training | Specialized knowledge not necessary in all cases |
| Income | Uncertain profit or loss | Professional fees | Fixed wages or salary |
| Risk | Risk of loss | Liability for professional negligence | Generally no business risk |
| Regulation | No specific code of conduct | Professional code of conduct | Contractual employment conditions |
| Objective type | Main focus | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Economic | Business survival and profit | Customers, innovation, efficient resources |
| Social | Welfare of society | Quality goods, fair trade, general welfare |
| Human | Employee and disadvantaged-person welfare | Remuneration, training, social satisfaction |
| National | National development | Employment, taxes, exports |
| Global | International welfare and competitiveness | Living standards, reduced disparities, competitive goods |
Test your knowledge on Nature and Scope of Business with 23 multiple-choice questions with detailed corrections.
1. Regarding human activities, which of the following propositions are correct?
2. Economic and non-economic activities can be distinguished by which of the following characteristics?
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What are human activities undertaken to satisfy?
Their wants, discharge obligations, or earn money.
What distinguishes economic activities from non-economic activities?
Economic activities aim to earn money, non-economic do not.
What do economic activities create and involve?
They create wealth and assets and involve rational use of scarce resources.
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