Bullying: A Case To Answer?
25 mins, 2003 Bullying at work is a major personnel issue – but it’s hard to prove. This dramatised case study focuses on a thorny problem. Simon’s job is to change the way his department operates. To most he seems friendly but he comes into conflict with conscientious admin worker Viv. Problems start when Simon… Read more »
Baked Alaska
27 mins, 2003 America’s coldest, richest state is warming ten times faster than the rest of the world. “That ice should be four feet thick”, confirms a hunter who catches walrus. “Now it’s only one foot thick”. Elsewhere houses and roads collapse as the ground beneath them melts. The US government now plans to drill… Read more »
Business In The Economy 2: West Midlands
30 mins, 2002 For over two hundred years the Black Country has been a manufacturing centre. But now the factories are closing and young people want to move away. The film explores the area via the experience of Maureen, a factory worker who has lived there all her life. It explores the impact of the… Read more »
Basics Of Finance 2: The Balance Sheet Explained
23 mins, 2001 Jay expands his financial enlightenment. The profit and loss account (as described in The Basics Of Finance I: Are We Making A Profit) tells him a lot, but only the balance sheet will reveal to him the overall “financial health” of his company. Jay’s friend takes him through the balance sheet explaining… Read more »
Basics Of Finance 1: Are We Making A Profit?
23 mins, 2001 A light-hearted case study offering a clear guide to the financial ideas businesspeople need to grasp. Jay’s business, designing websites and CDs, is doing well. But then he meets an old friend who’s now an accountant. She gives him some tough lessons on the value of accounting knowledge and takes him through… Read more »
Behind The Adverts
30 mins, 2001 Everywhere we go we’re bombarded by signs and images. Many of these are adverts carefully designed to get us to part with our money. But what are they doing to us? What are they doing to the world? 1. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY: In Britain for a long time there simply… Read more »
Business Systems
28 mins, 1998 The video demonstrates how a firm’s information systems work through a lively, dramatised case study, set in the backstabbing world of the Comtex copier company. Systems examined include invoicing, email and customer database. Comtex boss Tony Spence wants “push-button” efficiency, but things don’t go to plan.
Business In The Economy 1: South Wales
34 mins, 1997 What drives a market economy? The video visits South Wales to explore this question. It illustrates primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and explains basic economic terms – demand and supply and the market price. In the 1980s many Welsh coal pits were declared “uneconomic”. The miners disagreed and fought a bitter battle… Read more »
Communication At Work: Introduction & Case Study
28 mins, 2012 Why is communication important in business and what happens when communication goes wrong? INTRODUCTION 15 mins Good communications are essential in any business – and there are many different kinds of communication. There’s one-way and two-way, formal and informal, open and closed communication. Emails and the internet have made a big impact… Read more »
China’s Pollution Busters
31 mins, 2009 China’s rapid industrialisation has come at a heavy price – polluted waterways and huge health problems. This film follows two Chinese environmentalists risking threats and violence to locate the factories polluting their water. CHONGQING: The film begins in Chongqing, one of China’s new mega cities, home to six million people, and a… Read more »
Converging Technologies
31 mins, 2008 In 1994 it would have taken about seven days to send someone a copy your holiday snaps. Now using a digital camera and email it takes about ten minutes. This fast-moving documentary takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the world of convergence. TECHNOLOGY CHANGE: In the early days computers were huge… Read more »
Cola Conquest II: How Coke Took Over The World
39 mins, 2008 This award-winning film tells the story of how Coca-Cola became the world’s most famous multinational company and follows its quest to be the globe’s number one beverage. HOW IT STARTS: The Second World War prompts Coke’s global expansion as every US soldier gets a bottle of Coke for five cents. Bottling plants… Read more »