BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Business (Management)

Study your HND by online learning with full tutor support and access to a student loan. With no set class times, you create your own timetable. Your tutor will support you and bring the materials to life. RDI are the world’s leading provider of UK university distance learning.

The BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Business (Management) can be studied as a stand-alone programme or can form part of a three-year degree programme leading to the University of Sunderland BA (Hons) Business Management, or Anglia Ruskin University BA (Hons) Business. Successful completion of the HND allows direct entry to a one-year top-up to the Honours Degree.

HNC (total 8 units):

Personal and Professional Development

• Self-managed learning
• Personal and professional development
• Personal and professional development plan
• Interpersonal and transferable skills

Marketing Principles

• Concept and process of marketing
• Concepts of segmentation, targeting and
• positioning
• Individual elements of the extended
• marketing mix
• The marketing mix in different contexts

Organisations and Behaviour

• Relationship between organisational structure and culture
• Different approaches to management and leadership
• Motivational theories in organisations
• Mechanisms for developing effective teamwork in organisations

Business Environment

• Organisational purposes of businesses
• Nature of the national environment in which businesses operate
• Behaviour or organisations in their market environment
• Significance of the global factors that shape national business activities

Managing Financial Resources and Decisions

• Sources of finance available to a business
• The implications of finance as a resource within a business
• Make financial decisions based on financial information
• Evaluate the financial performance of a business

Aspects of Contract and Negligence for Business

• Essential elements of a valid contract in a business context
• Elements of a contract in business situations
• Principles of liability in negligence in business activities

Human Resource Management

• Difference between personnel management and human resource management
• How to recruit employees
• How to reward employees in order to motivate and retain them
• Mechanisms for cessation of employment

Business Decision Making

• Sources for the collection of primary and secondary data
• Techniques to analyse data effectively for business purposes
• Produce information in appropriate formats for decision making in an organisational context
• Software-generated information

HND (total 8 units):

Working With and Leading People

• Recruitment, selection and retention procedures
• Styles and impact of leadership
• Team working
• Assessing the work and development needs of individuals

Managing Business Activities to Achieve Results

• Importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based upon business goals and objectives
• Develop and implement operational plans
• Monitor appropriate systems to improve organisational performance
• Manage health and safety in the workplace

Managing Communications, Knowledge and Information

• Assess information and knowledge needs
• Create strategies to increase personal networking to widen involvement in the decision-making process
• Develop communication processes
• Improve systems relating to information and knowledge

Marketing Planning

• Compile marketing audits
• Main barriers to marketing planning
• Formulate a marketing plan for a product or service
• Ethical issues in marketing

Sales Planning and Operations

• Role of personal selling within the overall marketing strategy
• Apply the principles of the selling process to a product or service
• Role and objectives of sales management
• Plan sales activity for a product or service

Project Management for Business

• Project management principles
• Manage a project’s human resources
• Apply project processes and procedures

Business Strategy

• Organisations purposes of businesses
• Nature of the national environment in which businesses operate
• Behaviour of organisations in their market environment
• Global factors that shape national business activities

Research Project

• Formulate a research specification
• Implement the research project
• Evaluate research outcomes
• Present research outcomes

The HND Diploma in Business (Management) is ideal for those who wish to study at Undergraduate level to become better business managers. If you have 2 years full-time work experience or A-levels, this could be a route into Higher Education as a stand-alone course or with the final year top-up to achieve a full Bachelor’s degree.

You may already work in a role within business, HRM, finance, marketing PR or sales, or be looking to move into one of those areas.

The wide range of skills you gain while studying could you appealing to a wide range of employers seeking analytical and critical thinking, problem solving, and strong interpersonal and communication skills.

The standard entry requirements are as follows:

• An A Level pass or equivalent.
• English language ability equivalent to IELTS 5.5

Applicants whose educational qualifications do not meet the standard entry requirements but have at least two years full-time work experience will be considered on an individual basis.

Graduates with an HND in Business and Management have a wide range of options open to them. The most business roles for these graduates include business, HRM, finance, marketing PR and sales.

What do the LinkedIn stats say?

Top employers: HSBC, PriceWaterHouse Coopers, RBS, Lloyds, Tesco, Barclays, Accenture, NHS, IBM