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Leaving Cert Business: Teamwork
How often Teamwork comes up on the Business papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
HL Asked on 5 of the last 10 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2024.
OL Asked on 5 of the last 10 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2025.
June 2027 is the first exam on the new Business course. These come from the 2016–2026 papers, so read them as a guide.
Quick ones on Teamwork.
- Functional team
- Cross-functional team
- Quality circle
- Workloads are spread more evenly
- More ideas are shared by members
- Some members may not pull their weight
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(a) Cross-functional team
(b) Some members may not pull their weight
Higher Level
Asked on 5 of the last 10 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Not asked |
| 2024 | Section 1 Q12 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
| 2021 | Section 3 Q6 |
| 2019 | Section 1 Q1 |
| 2018 | Not asked |
| 2017 | Section 2 ABQ |
| 2016 | Section 3 Q4 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Ordinary Level
Asked on 5 of the last 10 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Section 1 Q5 |
| 2024 | Section 1 Q13, Section 2 Q5 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Section 2 Q7 |
| 2021 | Section 1 Q9 |
| 2019 | Not asked |
| 2018 | Section 2 Q5 |
| 2017 | Not asked |
| 2016 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Teamwork questions
Teamwork, 2 marks
Which of these is a benefit of teamwork for a business?
- Decisions are always made more quickly
- Nobody has to take any responsibility
- Members share different skills and ideas
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Members share different skills and ideas
A team pools skills and generates more ideas, though agreeing as a group usually takes longer than one person deciding alone.
Teamwork, 2 marks
One benefit of teamwork for employees is…
- Having no one to talk to
- Learning from each other's skills
- Always working alone on all of your tasks
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Learning from each other's skills
Team members share ideas and support each other, which can make work more satisfying.
Other Business topics
- Break-even
- Business and the economy
- Business expansion
- Communication
- Consumer protection
- Employment law
- Enterprise
- Human resource management
- Industrial relations
- Insurance
- International trade
- Law of contract
- Market research
- Motivation
- New product development
- Production
- Promotion
- Sources of finance
- Taxation
- The EU
- Business organisations
- Categories of industry
- Government and business
- Ratios
- Stakeholders
- Global marketing
- Planning
- Product life cycle
- Changing role of management
- Channels of distribution
- Factors of production
- Leading
- Marketing
- Marketing mix
- Multinational companies
- Organising
- Protectionism
- Structures
- Conflict resolution
- Market segmentation
- Pricing
- Cash flow
- Quality control
- Social responsibility
- State-owned enterprises
- Business alliances
- Community development
- Controlling
- Data protection
- Delegation
- Ethics
- Global business
- Stock control
- The environment
- Credit control
- EU policies
- Household finance
- Management activities
- Management skills
- Total quality management
- Business plan
- Finance
- Globalisation
- Monitoring the business
- The single market