Level 4 Integrated Diploma in Business and Management

This Unit will explain different types of businesses 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.

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 organisation 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.

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.

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 benefit 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.

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 organizations 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.

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.

The aim of this unit is to introduce learners to key aspects of all businesses and how they operate within the wider business environment, as well as internally. Operational control and the provision of best practice and sound policy will be shown to facilitate organisational excellence.

This unit introduces learners to practical accounting and financial reporting techniques used by managers in business organisations.

The aim of this unit is to provide the learner with an introduction to leadership skills, and how they can be identified and developed, and to show the importance of providing motivation for others.

To understand aspects of an organisation’s culture and their effects on its activities and its management, as well as the significance of an ethical business approach.

To understand that workforce welfare ensures that everybody employed within the organisation is valued and that there are benefits to be gained from being part of the organisation.

The aim of this unit is to introduce the learner to an evaluation of themselves in an entrepreneurial context by using several techniques including SWOT.

Learners will be introduced to critically thinking skills and put into context against a business plan.