BTEC HND in Business Management

Specialist Units for Business Management

Unit 13: Personal and Professional Development

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

  1. Understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development
  2. Be able to take responsibility for own personal and professional development
  3. Be able to implement and continually review own personal and professional development plan
  4. Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills.

 

Unit 14: Working with and Leading People

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

  1. Be able to use recruitment, selection and retention procedures
  2. Understand the styles and impact of leadership
  3. Be able to work effectively in a team
  4. 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:

  1. Understand the importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based upon business goals and objectives
  2. Be able to develop plans for own area of responsibility to implement operational plans
  3. Be able to monitor appropriate systems to improve organisational performance
  4. Be able to manage health and safety in the workplace.

 

Unit 16: Managing Communications, Knowledge and Information

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

  1. Understand how to assess information and knowledge needs
  2. Be able to create strategies to increase personal networking to widen involvement in the decision-making process
  3. Be able to develop communication processes
  4. Be able to improve systems relating to information and knowledge.

 

Unit 9: Management Accounting: Costing and Budgeting

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

  1. Be able to analyse cost information within a business
  2. Be able to propose methods to reduce costs and enhance value within a business
  3. Be able to prepare forecasts and budgets for a business
  4. Be able to monitor performance against budgets within a business.

 

Unit 32: Quality Management in Business

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

  1. Understand the different approaches to quality management appropriate to commercial operations
  2. Understand the benefits of quality management in a business and services context
  3. Understand a range of quality controls and how service to the customer can be improved
  4. 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:

  1. Be able to investigate the performance of a selected small business enterprise
  2. Be able to propose changes to improve management and business performance
  3. Be able to revise business objectives and plans to incorporate proposed changes
  4. 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:

  1. Understand different ethical perspectives in business
  2. Understand business objectives from an ethical perspective
  3. Understand ethics in workplace relationships
  4. Be able to assess a current ethical issue in a business.