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HNC Business: Managing People and Organisations June 2023 Senior Pupils (2023-24)

This unit is designed to enable learners to gain an understanding of different approaches to managing an organisation in today’s dynamic and complex business environment. It will introduce learners — whether intending to or working in an administrative, commercial or management role — to current management theories and practices to enable them to use these to evaluate organisational effectiveness.

This unit will introduce you to the nature of work organisations, approaches to management and leadership and factors affecting individual and team performance. The unit should provide you with an understanding of the theories behind management, organisation, and employee performance and how you should apply these theories to organisational situations. The basic nature and functioning of work organisations, in general, will be explained and you will examine different approaches that may be used to improve individual and team performance through effective leadership and management. To assist your overall understanding earlier theories and models will be described but concentration will be placed on more modern approaches and ideas that review the management styles and roles regarded as necessary for organisations of the 21st century. The unit will also explain the alternative methods by which work organisations can be structured.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to identify and apply knowledge of organisational, management and leadership theory and practice to a range of given situations.



Innovation Management Systems (AMC516) : January 2023 (cohort) & September 2023 (cohort)


Innovation is considered one of the most important aspects for the students to understand. It is accepted as a critical contributor to the development of companies and society at large. The course aims to provide relevant theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to students necessary to understand, anticipate, acquire, use, and manage innovation systems for attaining superior performance and competitiveness in the marketplace.

Furthermore, the course provides a context and introduction to innovation, what it is and how it links to creativity and other business models such as business excellence and organizational learning. The module introduces why organizations innovate, and how innovation can be managed, especially in the service and public sectors. The course is taught through a mixture of lectures, case studies and industry visits.

The lectures will cover a range of areas concerning the management of innovation, including motivations for innovating, how organizations can protect their innovations using intellectual property rights, the nature and organization and management of “research and development” (R&D), the management of creative people, processes and teams, the management of product, service and experience innovations, the adoption and use of “open innovation”, and the adoption and use of frugal innovation (Jugaad). These discussions and industry visits closely complement the topics covered in the lectures to reinforce the ideas and give them a practical application.