BTEC HND in Business Accounting
Specialist Units for Business HR
Unit 21: Human Resource Management
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the difference between personnel management and human resourcemanagement
- Understand how to recruit employees
- Understand how to reward employees in order to motivate and retain them
- Know the mechanisms for the cessation of employment.
Unit 22: Managing Human Resources
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the different perspectives of human resource management
- Understand ways of developing flexibility within the workplace
- Understand the impact of equal opportunities in the workplace
- Understand approaches to human resources practices in organisations.
Unit 23: Human Resources Development
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand learning theories and learning styles
- Be able to plan and design training and development
- Be able to evaluate a training event
- Understand government-led skills development initiatives.
Unit 24: Employee Relations
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the context of employee relations against a changing background
- Understand the nature of industrial conflict and its resolution
- Understand collective bargaining and negotiation processes
- Understand the concept of employee participation and involvement.
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 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.

