Qualification details
PLEASE note that this strand to the proposed level 5 diploma will shortly be submitted for approval to develop further. What follows here is the Project Management strand with the core compulsory outcomes for the diploma (ie the other strands have been removed from this consultation copy for the Project Management strand)
Title New Zealand Diploma in Business (with strands in Accounting, Administration and Technology, Leadership and Management, Project Management) (Level 5)
Version 1 Qualification type Diploma
Level 5 Credits 120
NZSCED 080301
DAS classification Business
Qualification developer Please refer to the proposal published separately for consultation.
Next review Mmmm YYYY
Approval date Dd Mmmm YYYY
Strategic purpose statement Definitions:
A project is a temporary group activity designed to produce a unique product, service or result. Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management strand
The purpose of this qualification is to provide New Zealand business entities with people who can manage projects to consistently deliver high quality outcomes.
This qualification will benefit New Zealand business entities by increasing project management success through consistent application of Project Management skills.
Graduates of this qualification will be able to manage projects in a bi- and multi-cultural environment.
O u tc o m e S ta te m e n t
Graduate profile Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
Core compulsory
Core knowledge and skills (25 credits)
• Apply knowledge of operations, accounting, sales/marketing, HR, and risk management principles and practices, to support the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the entity • Contribute business knowledge to innovation and
organisational change in operational contexts Core people skills (10 credits)
• Develop and maintain operational business relationships with stakeholders
• Research and communicate information for the entity’s performance
• Apply problem solving and decision making in operational contexts
Core affective skills (8 credits)
• Manage own and others’ learning and performance within an operational context
• Demonstrate professional and ethical behaviour, in a socially and culturally appropriate manner
Core business environment (12 credits)
• Analyse the impact of external environments on entities • Apply knowledge of the origin and nature of the bi-cultural
partnership with Māori to business activities and relationships
Project Management strand
(Definitions:
A project is a temporary group activity designed to produce a unique product, service or result.
Project management is a specific skill set designed for the unique project environment.)
Technical knowledge and skills
• Select and use Project Management tools and techniques (conditions will specify procurement at least) appropriate to the project(s) (10 credits)
• Apply Project Management knowledge to manage the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closing of projects (45 credits)
People skills (5 credits)
• Negotiate and positively influence others to achieve the project’s outcomes
Education pathway
The NZ Diploma in Business (Project Management) (Level 5) qualification may build from:
• NZ Certificate in PM (Level 4)
Achievement of the NZ Diploma in Business (Project
Management) (Level 5) qualification may lead to the
• NZ Diploma in Business (Level 6)
or may pathway into relevant industry and/or academic certifications or other level 6 business or other qualifications. Draft, for confirmation: This qualification may equip graduates towards achievement of Project Management Institute and other professional credentials.
community pathway Graduates of the Project Management strand will have the skills and knowledge to be employed in a variety of business entities in project management roles. Graduates will also be able to contribute to community groups in volunteer project management roles.
Qualification specifications
PLEASE note that this qualification may shortly be submitted for approval to develop further. What follows here is common to all the Business qualifications and indicative only at this stage. Qualification award This qualification will be awarded to people who have met
the requirements of the outcomes.
Credit gained for an outcome may be used only once to meet the requirements of this qualification.
Awarding bodies for this qualification will be any education organisation accredited under section 38 of the Education Amendment Act 2011 to deliver a programme leading to the qualification.
The certificate will display the NZQF logo and the name and logo of the awarding body.
Arrangements for managing consistency
Please refer to the proposal published separately for consultation.
Credit transfer and recognition of
prior learning arrangements Education organisations must have policies and procedures in place for managing credit transfer, and assessing recognition of prior learning and recognition of current competency. These policies and procedures, and associated fees must be available to the candidates prior to enrolment.
Where recognition of existing skills and knowledge is required by the candidate, this will be arranged by the education organisation, delivering the programme leading to the qualification.
To facilitate credit transfer, education organisations must clearly demonstrate the equivalency between each of the outcomes in the graduate profile, and the assessment components of their programmes.
Minimum standard of achievement and standards for grade
endorsements
The minimum standard of achievement required for the award of the qualification will be the achievement of all the graduate outcomes in the graduate profile.
There are no grade endorsements for this qualification. Entry requirements (including
prerequisites to meet regulatory body or legislative requirements)
There are no mandatory prerequisites to meet regulatory body or legislative requirements for this qualification.
Qualification conditions
Conditions for programme structure
Outcomes in the following sections of the graduate profile will be embedded throughout programme design and delivery, and assessment: People skills, Cognitive skills, Affective skills. Conditions for programme
context
Programme design and delivery, and all assessment will be
conducted in and for the context of a real or realistic business entity, and in light of the requirements of that context
Programmes leading to award of this qualification must identify the context, and must justify the allocation of credits to graduate profile outcomes within the programme, in light of the requirements of the context.
A business entity can be an organisation, or a commercial or other enterprise, not necessarily for profit
Other conditions
Specific conditions relating to the Graduate profile Qualification outcomes Indicative
Credits
Conditions Mandatory
or Optional Analyse the impact of external
environments on organisations External environments must
include government policy, legislation, economic conditions, technology, sustainable management, and social trends
Mandatory
Develop and maintain operational business relationships with stakeholders
Stakeholders’ include internal and external stakeholders
Mandatory
Research and communicate information for the entity’s performance
‘Communicate’ must emphasise written and oral skills
Mandatory
Demonstrate professional and ethical behaviour, in a socially and culturally appropriate manner
“Professionally” includes attitudes, qualities and behaviours
“Socially” must consider, amongst other things,
environmental, community and sustainability expectations “Culturally” must be interpreted as being wider than ethnicity Explanatory - It is the context that sets the level for
assessment, one should not act less ethically at lower levels of the NZQF than at higher levels: the context within which one acts will be more complex at higher levels.
Mandatory
Replacement information
