NOCN
Level 4
QN: 601/4694/1
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NOCN Level 4 Certificate in The Management of Productivity
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NOCN. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 520 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 4
Awarding Body
NOCN
Syllabus Units
27 Units
Guided Hours
520 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
5S to Improve Productivity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how 5S relates to efficiency and safety in the workplace.
- Know how to apply 5S to improve productivity.
2
Budget Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand ways in which costs are analysed as the basis of planning a budget.
- Understand the role of budgeting and budgetary control in productivity management.
3
Business Start-Up
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to evaluate the feasibility of a business idea.
- Understand resource requirements of a new business.
- Understand the importance of compliance with the legislation and regulation that apply to a specific new business.
- Understand support available to new business start-ups in a given location.
4
Continuous Improvement
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of lean production.
- Understand how to plan and execute an improvement project in an organisation.
- Understand the role of monitoring and review in continuous improvement.
5
Corporate Social Responsibility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the inter-relationship between business success, environmental sustainability and social development.
- Understand how to integrate CSR into strategic planning.
6
Costing and Financial Control
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of costing in financial and productivity management.
- Be able to categorise costs to aid budgeting, product costing and pricing.
- Know how to use different approaches to costing to inform organisational decisions.
7
Designing & Implementing a Balanced Scorecard
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the place of performance measurement in strategy implementation.
- Understand the key principles that underpin effective use of the balanced scorecard.
8
Implementing a Digital Strategy
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the components of a digital strategy.
- Understand the need for a systematic approach to implementing a digital strategy.
- Be able to design a systematic process to move a business function to a digital platform.
9
Innovation & Creativity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of innovation and creativity in business idea generation.
- Understand how a culture of creativity can be fostered.
- Know how to generate and evaluate ideas within a team.
- Know how to implement change arising from innovative or creative thinking.
10
Leadership & Management of Productivity Improvement
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the roles of leadership and management in strategic planning.
- Understand the importance of leading and managing teams to improve the productivity of an organisation.
11
Managing Customer Service to Improve Productivity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of customer service as a competitive tool.
- Understand how customer service can be managed to improve productivity.
12
Managing Marketing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the inter-relationship between business strategy, marketing and sales.
- Understand the marketing mix as the basis for taking marketing decisions.
13
Mobile Technologies for Improved Productivity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the social implications of mobile technologies.
- Understand the technological and legal implications of using mobile technology to improve productivity.
14
New Product Development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the process of new product development (NPD).
- Understand monitoring and decision making processes in NPD.
15
Organisational Development for Improved Productivity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the inter-relationships of leadership, organisational culture and productivity.
- Understand the factors that govern the effectiveness and efficiency of working teams.
- Understand the concept and practice of organisational development.
16
Performance Measurement & Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand performance measurement in the management of an organisation.
- Understand the key principles that underpin an effective performance management regime.
17
Planning for Operational Change
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the reasons for resistance to change and the ways it can be ameliorated.
- Be able to plan for the implementation of changed processes and work roles.
- Understand how to monitor
- review and evaluate change activity.
18
Problem Solving for Business
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how problems can be identified within an organisation or specific workplace.
- Understand the need to apply a structured approach to problem solving.
- Know how to generate and evaluate problem solutions.
19
Production Engineering
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how the design and operation of production facilities affects efficiency.
- Understand the factors that impact on the operating efficiency of machines, equipment and production lines.
- Be able to analyse the relationship between production volume, quality and efficiency to inform decision-making.
20
Quality Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of establishing a quality culture in creating defect-free goods and services.
- Know the mandatory and optional standards that apply to quality management in a given sector.
- Understand the importance of identifying specific control points.
- Understand how to use statistical techniques to control the sampling of output from a production process.
21
Reducing Waste to Improve Productivity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how waste relates to value in the 'Lean' methodology.
- Understand the need for a structured approach to the identification and elimination of waste.
22
Risk and Issue Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand risk and issues in the context of productivity improvement.
- Understand risks in productivity improvement projects.
- Understand issues of concern to stakeholders.
23
Strategic Planning
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of organisational strategy and strategic planning.
- Be able to identify critical success factors appropriate to a company and its environment.
- Know how to measure the performance of an organisation.
24
Supply Chain Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the chain of events in business-to-business supply.
- Understand how to improve the productivity of a supply chain.
25
Using Benchmarking to Improve Performance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the place of benchmarking within a performance measurement and management regime.
- Know about different forms of benchmarking used in performance management.
- Understand the key stages in the implementation of benchmarking.
26
Workforce Planning to Improve Productivity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand workforce planning.
- Understand how to capture data required for a workforce planning model.
- Be able to use a workforce planning model.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 601/4694/1
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- NOCN
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Oct 2014