BTEC HND in Business Management
Specialist Units for Business Management
Unit 13: Personal and Professional Development
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development
- Be able to take responsibility for own personal and professional development
- Be able to implement and continually review own personal and professional development plan
- Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills.
Unit 14: Working with and Leading People
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Be able to use recruitment, selection and retention procedures
- Understand the styles and impact of leadership
- Be able to work effectively in a team
- Be able to assess the work and development needs of individuals.
Unit 15: Managing Business Activities to Achieve Results
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based upon business goals and objectives
- Be able to develop plans for own area of responsibility to implement operational plans
- Be able to monitor appropriate systems to improve organisational performance
- Be able to manage health and safety in the workplace.
Unit 16: Managing Communications, Knowledge and Information
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand how to assess information and knowledge needs
- Be able to create strategies to increase personal networking to widen involvement in the decision-making process
- Be able to develop communication processes
- Be able to improve systems relating to information and knowledge.
Unit 9: Management Accounting: Costing and Budgeting
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Be able to analyse cost information within a business
- Be able to propose methods to reduce costs and enhance value within a business
- Be able to prepare forecasts and budgets for a business
- Be able to monitor performance against budgets within a business.
Unit 32: Quality Management in Business
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the different approaches to quality management appropriate to commercial operations
- Understand the benefits of quality management in a business and services context
- Understand a range of quality controls and how service to the customer can be improved
- Be able to apply the principles of quality management to improve the performance of an organisation.
Unit 33: Small Business Enterprise
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Be able to investigate the performance of a selected small business enterprise
- Be able to propose changes to improve management and business performance
- Be able to revise business objectives and plans to incorporate proposed changes
- Be able to examine the impact of change management on the operations of the business.
Unit 45: Business Ethics
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand different ethical perspectives in business
- Understand business objectives from an ethical perspective
- Understand ethics in workplace relationships
- Be able to assess a current ethical issue in a business.

