Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to determine and analyse existing and required resources, their effective application and the accountability for their use.
The unit applies to individuals with a broad knowledge of business resources and well-developed skills to ensure adequate resources are available to perform the work of the organisation. They may have responsibility to provide guidance to, or delegate aspects of these tasks to others.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:
• coordinate at least three business resources.
In the course of the above, the candidate must:
• calculate and assess costs in relation to use and maintenance of business resources
• develop and present resource requirement recommendations
• consult and communicate with individuals and teams about acquiring and using resources
• monitor and assess resource acquisition, allocation, use and procedures
• follow organisational policies and procedures in relation to business resource acquisition and monitoring and maintaining records.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:
• functions of common business resources used in an organisation, including, organisational policies, plans and procedures in relation to business resource acquisition and monitoring
• method and format for developing recommendations on resource requirements
• organisational procedures for sourcing, assessing and costing business resources
• methods for analysing and incorporating feedback on effectiveness resource planning, monitoring resource use
• methods to implement organisational changes to resource planning and resource use.

Assessment Conditions

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.
This includes access to:
• records concerning equipment and resource purchases
• organisational policies, procedures and operational plans.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Reading', 'description': 'Identifies and interprets information from organisational plans, policies and procedures'}
• {'skill': 'Writing', 'description': 'Develops a range of documents using structure and vocabulary appropriate to audience, context and purpose'}
• {'skill': 'Oral communication', 'description': 'Participates in spoken interactions using active listening and questioning to confirm and clarify understanding'}
• {'skill': 'Numeracy', 'description': 'Interprets a range of mathematical information that is embedded in familiar texts; Calculates and compares numeric data to track expenditure'}
• {'skill': 'Initiative and enterprise', 'description': 'Identifies and responds to explicit and implicit organisational procedures and protocols and regulatory requirements'}
• {'skill': 'Teamwork', 'description': 'Selects the appropriate form, channel and mode of communication for a specific purpose relevant to own role; Cooperates with others as part of familiar routine activities playing an active role in facilitating group interaction'}
• {'skill': 'Planning and organising', 'description': 'Applies formal processes when planning complex tasks, producing plans with logically sequenced steps, reflecting an awareness of time constraints; Identifies and takes responsibility for addressing predictable problems in familiar work contexts; Assess impacts of variables on decision outcomes to identify improvement opportunities'}
• {'skill': 'Technology', 'description': 'Utilises a range of features within digital applications to access, store and share information'}

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