Higher Nationals

Assignment Brief – BTEC (RQF)

Higher National Diploma in Business (Business Management)
Student Name/ID Phan Nguyen Hoai Ngoc – Gemma
Number

Unit Number and Title Unit 46: Developing Individuals, Teams and Organisations

Academic Year 2022_2023

Unit Tutor Tu Pham

Assignment Title High-Performance Working and Culture (1 of 2)

Issue Date 21/2/2023

Submission Date 28/3/2023

Submission Format
The submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in
a concise, formal business style using single spacing and font size 12. You are required
to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work
must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system.
Please also provide a reference list using the Harvard referencing system. The
recommended word limit is 2,500 words although you will not be penalised for
exceeding the total word limit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO1 Appraise the use of high-performance working (HPW) and culture in supporting
sustainable business performance
LO2 Evaluate the ways in which performance management can support high-performance
culture and commitment
LO3 Review the factors to be considered when planning training and development
activities in an organisation

Assignment activity and guidance

You are a management trainee at a multinational consulting firm. You have been
asked by your supervisor to write a report based on appraising the use of high-
performance working (HPW) and culture in supporting sustainable business
performance for organisations.
The report should include the following:
1. Reviewing how HPW contributes to employee engagement and improvement
2. Analyse the benefits of applying HPW to support business performance
3. Evaluate different approaches to performance management and culture, and
commitment by giving specific examples
 4. Critically analyse the factors to be considered when planning training and
development activities for a specific organisation achieving competitive advantage

Recommended Resources
Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a starting
point in your research – the list is not definitive.

Textbooks
COTTRELL, S. (2015) Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. 3rd
Ed. London: Macmillan.
MEE-YAN, C-J. and HOLBECHE, L. (2015) Organizational Development: A Practitioner's
Guide for OD and HR. London: Kogan Page.
TAYLOR, S. and WOODHAM, C. (2016). Human Resource Management – People and
Organisations. London: CIPD.
TAYLOR, S. and WOODHAM, C. (2016). Studying Human Resource Management.
2nd Ed. CIPD.
TROUGHT, F. (2017) Brilliant Employability Skills: How to stand out from the crowd in the
graduate job market. 2nd Ed. Harlow: Pearson.

Websites

www.businessballs.com Business Balls

Performance management
(General reference)

www.hrmagazine.com Human Resources Magazine

(General reference)

www.thebalancecareers.com Balance Careers

Performance management
(General reference)

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Appraise the use of high-performance working

(HPW) and culture in supporting sustainable
business performance

P1 Review how HPW M1 Analyse the benefits LO1, LO2 and LO3
contributes to employee of applying HPW, with
engagement and justifications for a specific
D1 Synthesise knowledge and
improved sustainable organisation to support
information to make
business performance successful sustainable
appropriate judgements on
for a specific business performance
how HPW supports improved
organisation
employee engagement,
commitment and competitive
LO2 Evaluate the ways in which performance advantage
management, can support high-performance culture
and commitment

P2 Evaluate different M2 Critically evaluate the

approaches to effectiveness of different
performance approaches to
management and how performance
they support high- management and how
performance culture and they support high-
commitment, giving performance culture and
specifics examples commitment

LO3 Review the factors to be considered when

planning training and development activities in an
organisation

P3 Evaluate the factors M3 Critically evaluate the

to be considered when factors to be considered
implementing training when planning training
and development to and development,
maintain competitive supported by specific
advantage organisational examples