SQA Advanced Diploma Business with Human Resource Management
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Business with Human Resource Management is designed to provide the theoretical business knowledge and practical skills that employees are expected to have for a career in the business sector, while allowing specialisation in human resource management.
It includes recruitment and selection, preparing job descriptions and interviewing, employee training and development, and employee relations — eg handling grievances, disciplinary proceedings and redundancy. It also includes employee services, payroll and benefits, and predicting and planning for an organisation’s future staffing needs.
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Business with Human Resource Management consists of 30 unit credits. Each unit credit has approximately 40 hours of timetabled learning and 40 hours of self-guided learning and study. The SQA Advanced Diploma usually takes two academic years to complete, but this timeframe is flexible.
An SQA Advanced Diploma in Business with Human Resource Management can allow advanced entry to an English-speaking university. SQA’s qualifications are recognised worldwide.
Course Tutor Guide (including Course Framework)
Code: GT33 48
Download: SQA Advanced Diploma Business with Human Resource Management Course Tutor Guide
Qualification Verification Summary Report
- 2022 Business Management Qualification Verification Summary Report
- 2022 Economics Qualification Verification Summary Report
A Guide for Tutors
Communication Units
This document is aimed at tutors who are teaching learners whose first language is not English.
The purpose of this document is to provide a selection of formative exercises that will:
- motivate learners
- increase confidence in communicating effectively in English
- prepare learners to successfully pass the summative assessments
Communication Units for SQA Advanced Qualifications
Research Skills
The guide provides support for developing good practice in how the Research Skills unit might be delivered, scheduled and assessed. It contains guidance on delivering the Research Skills Unit both on a stand-alone basis or integrating with other Units, and provides customised checklists for integration with various Graded Units.
Unit Specifications
- Accounting for Business: An Introduction (J5FN 47)
- Business Contractual Relationships (HP6X 47)
- Business Fundamentals with Emerging Technologies (J5FK 47)
- Business Law: An Introduction (J5AW 47)
- Business with HRM: Graded Unit 1 (J5TE 47)
- Business with HRM: Graded Unit 2 (J5TF 48)
- Communication: Business Communication (HP75 47)
- Continuous Workforce Development (J491 47)
- Creating a Culture of Customer Care (HP73 47)
- Economics: Micro and Macro Theory and Application (J5AX 48)
- Economic Issues: An Introduction (J461 47)
- Economics: The World Economy (J5AY 48)
- Grievance and Discipline Handling (HP7F 48)
- Human Resource Management : Introduction (J2FD 47)
- Human Resource Management Practice (J45T 48)
- IT in Business: Spreadsheets (HP78 47)
- Managing Business Culture and Strategy (J5FL 48)
- Managing People and Organisations (J4DK 47)
- Marketing: An Introduction (HP6N 47)
- Preparing Financial Forecasts (J5B0 48)
- Project Management: Strategy, Decision Making and Risk (J5FM 48)
- Statistics for Business (J45Y 47)
Two additional mandatory units
