QUALIFI Level 3 Diploma in Business Management

Aims of unit

This unit will explain different types of business and their ownership exist in an economy. Learners will understand role of owner and stakeholders to fulfil purpose of business.

The unit will help learners to understand how businesses are organised to achieve their targets. This unit will also help to understand the way in which the economic, political, legal and social environment can impact on businesses giving the learner an understanding of the range of businesses.

Aims of unit

The unit will explain how a range of resources, including human, physical, technological and financial resources, are used and managed within business.

This unit will help the learner to have an understanding of how human resources are managed and of the employability and personal skills required of personnel in an organisation. Learners will gain an understanding of the purpose of managing resources effectively, not only in relation to human resources but also in terms of physical and technological resources.

Learners will also gain an understanding of how an organization can gain access to sources of finance, both internally and externally and be able to interpret financial statements.

There are clear links between this unit and many of the other units; it serves as a useful introduction to areas that may be covered in depth in further units.

Aims of unit

Marketing is a key business function covering a wide range of activities and employing many people. This unit will develop the knowledge necessary to understand key concepts of the marketing mix, marketing planning and marketing research. As an introduction to marketing, the unit will allow learners who study other, specialist marketing units to keep in mind the strategic purpose of the marketing function and how it contributes to business success.

Learners will gain a basic understanding of the role of the marketing function, with particular emphasis on the role of marketing research and how it contributes to marketing planning and the development of a marketing mix for a target group of customers. Learners will have the opportunity to develop, analyse and evaluate key marketing techniques in order to obtain a better understanding of them.

Aims of unit

This unit will describe as the most valuable resource of any organisation, its human capital. All resources, especially the most valuable, need to be managed in order to obtain the greatest value from them. The unit provides an overview of some of the key areas that fall within the remit of the human resources function. By the end of this unit learners will gain an understanding of the factors that are taken into account by organisations when planning their human resource management. They will also learn how organisations gain employee motivation and employee commitment. Finally, learners will know about how employee performance is measured and managed as well as the benefits of doing so. This knowledge will help learners to understand the working environment and the nature of Human Resource Management when they are seeking or engaged in employment.

Aims of unit

Effective communication is a key area in terms of its contribution to business success. When studying this unit, learners will gain a thorough understanding of the types of business information used both internally and externally by organisations and the methods used to communicate information to different audiences. In this unit, learners will have the opportunity to develop, analyse and evaluate a range of methods used to communicate different types of business information and will understand the purpose of such communication. They will also produce and evaluate different types of business communication of their own.

Aims of unit

This unit will help to prepare learners for the world of work, where health and safety is a vital part of the modern workplace whatever sector is chosen. There trends to be level of myth surrounding health and safety requirements. This unit will help to dispel these and to promote good health and safety practise as a means to a productive working environment. Learner will understand about health and safety legislation, regulations and requirements that form the basis of all workplace in UK.

Aims of unit

This unit is about how an organisation recruits and selects staff. Learners will gain knowledge and understanding of the process that a business has to go through when recruiting staff. Learners will prepare documents necessary to help select the right person for the job and plan to take part in a selection interview. They will have a broad understanding of the legislation surrounding recruitment and selection and be able to explain how these laws affect a business.

 As part of this, learners will consider the role of the Human Resource department. This will help them understand the vital role that the HR department plays in helping an organisation achieve its business objectives and will help them in the future when attending a job interview or participating in a selection panel.

The learner will recognise the difficulty that staff within a Human Resource department experience as they prepare documents in readiness for advertising a job and then assess applicants against the set criteria. The learner will identify how legislation impacts on recruitment and selection, which means, for example, that they will know what can/cannot be put in job adverts and what employees can/cannot ask potential employees during a job interview.

Finally, the learner will be required to take part in a selection interview as an interviewer; this will allow them to develop techniques and skills which they can use in the future when attending job interviews as an interviewee.