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- The centre assesses, and Pearson Education Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Pearson Education Ltd.
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These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Business Administration Systems Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand administrative systems
- Understand how systems thinking affects the administrative performance of organisations
- Understand the role of policies and procedures in meeting customer requirements
Business Risk Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business risk, including its definition, types, and potential impact on organisations
- Understand how a model risk policy is used to manage and mitigate business risks
- Understand business risk concepts, such as risk appetite, risk tolerance, and risk assessment
- Understand how to identify risk and risk probability, using various risk assessment techniques
- Understand business resilience and the management of risk, including business continuity planning and disaster recovery
Collaborating with Other Departments Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to collaborate with other departments
- Understand how to collaborate effectively
Communicating in a Business Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective communication in organisations
- Understand the role of communication in organisations
Finance for Administrative Managers Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and scope of cost and management accounting within an organisation
- Understand the application of financial accounting principles and practices
- Understand the impact of internal and external factors on budgetary planning within a business context
- Understand how to effectively manage a budget, including monitoring and control processes
Human Resource Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of human resource management in supporting organisational objectives
- Understand how to recruit employees effectively, including selection and onboarding processes
- Understand how to reward employees in order to motivate and retain them, considering different reward systems
- Understand the mechanisms for cessation of employment, including legal and ethical considerations
Information Systems Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of information systems in a business environment, including their functions and benefits
- Understand the management of information systems, including planning, implementation, and maintenance
Managing Information and Knowledge Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of managing information and knowledge effectively within organisations.
- Understand the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in managing information and knowledge resources.
- Understand the links between a well-defined knowledge management strategy and achieving competitive advantage for an organisation.
Managing People and Performance in a Business Environment Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand workplace learning and development methods, including training programmes, coaching, and mentoring
- Understand the nature of individuals’ influences on their behaviour at work, considering factors such as personality, motivation, and attitudes
- Understand the concept of leadership and its influence on team working, including different leadership styles and their impact on team dynamics
- Understand the factors that contribute to successful team development and performance, such as communication, collaboration, and shared goals
- Understand problem-solving and conflict resolution techniques when managing people, including mediation and negotiation strategies
Managing Self Development Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how Continuous Professional Development (CPD) influences personal effectiveness in the workplace
- Understand own values, career aspirations and personal goals in relation to a work role and professional development opportunities
- Understand how to plan development activities to enhance skills and knowledge
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate development activities to measure progress and identify areas for further improvement
Principles of Administration for Executive Assistants Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role, interpersonal skills and behaviours required by executive assistants to be effective in their position
- Understand the management of diaries and engagements for senior staff
- Understand how executive assistants support business meetings and events, including preparation and follow-up activities
- Understand how executive assistants support organisational systems and processes to ensure smooth operations
Principles of Customer Service Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of management in customer service environments
- Understand how to manage recruitment and training initiatives to support excellent customer service
- Understand the management of customer service delivery processes
- Understand the value of monitoring, evaluating and continuous improvement in customer service delivery to enhance customer satisfaction
Principles of Marketing Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the contribution of marketing in achieving organisational objectives, including its role in revenue generation and brand building
- Understand the main barriers to marketing planning, such as lack of resources, market uncertainty, and internal resistance
- Understand ethical issues in marketing, including advertising standards, data privacy, and consumer protection
- Understand how to develop a marketing strategy, including market segmentation, targeting, and positioning
- Understand how to strengthen organisations value through marketing, including customer relationship management and brand loyalty programmes
Principles of Operational Planning Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of activities that constitute operations management within an organisation.
- Understand the relationship between efficient operations and overall business performance, including profitability and customer satisfaction.
- Understand the importance of effective administration in supporting and optimising operations management processes.
Principles of Project Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of the initiation phase and its key activities in a project's lifecycle.
- Understand the processes and techniques involved in effectively executing a project according to its plan.
- Understand how to evaluate project outcomes against set objectives and present the findings in a clear and concise manner.
Principles of Quality Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different approaches to quality management within an organisation
- Understand the benefits of implementing quality management systems
- Understand the use of quality controls to ensure standards are met
Principles of business strategic planning and development Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of strategic planning and the processes involved in its implementation.
- Understand the different frameworks and models that can be used in conducting a comprehensive strategy audit.
- Understand how to utilise different models and frameworks in the formulation of effective strategies.
Principles of management and leadership in organisations Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of leadership and its various approaches within organisations.
- Understand how to develop managerial effectiveness through different techniques and strategies in organisations.
- Understand the principles and practices involved in effectively managing the performance of individuals within organisations.
Principles of the Internet and E-Business Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope of e-business and its various applications within different industries
- Understand how the internet works, including its underlying technologies and protocols
- Understand different e-business models, such as B2B, B2C, and C2C, and their respective characteristics
- Understand issues in e-business, including communication strategies, quality assurance, and customer relationship management
Stakeholder engagement and management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the expectations of different organisational stakeholder groups and their varying needs
- Understand the process of stakeholder engagement and its value to an organisation, including benefits and potential challenges
- Understand how to develop and improve stakeholder relationship management strategies and techniques
Understand How to Manage Work Activities to Improve Business Performance Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based on business goals and objectives
- Understand how work plans are developed to achieve specific business objectives
- Understand how to monitor work plans and systems to improve organisational performance and efficiency
- Understand health and safety requirements when managing business activities to ensure a safe working environment
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Collaborate and provide support in a business environment
- Standard
Engage with stakeholders to support the enterprise and entrepreneurship education
- Standard
Manage information, knowledge and communication systems
The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Business Administration SystemsBusiness Risk ManagementCollaborating with Other DepartmentsCommunicating in a BusinessFinance for Administrative ManagersHuman Resource ManagementInformation SystemsManaging Information and Knowledge
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Principles of Marketing” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Human Resource Management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Finance for Administrative Managers” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Business Administration Systems” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Collaborate and provide support in a business environment
- Engage with stakeholders to support the enterprise and entrepreneurship education
- Manage information, knowledge and communication systems
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Business Administration Systems, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will explore the purpose and components of administrative systems and how systems thinking influences organisational performance. The unit also examines the role of policies and procedures in meeting customer requirements within business administration.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 4 Diploma in Business Administration
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Business Administration Systems
- Business Risk Management
- Collaborating with Other Departments
- Communicating in a Business
- Finance for Administrative Managers
- Human Resource Management
and 15 more in the full unit list below.
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