Overview
The Level 5 Diploma in Business Management and Leadership equips learners with the practical skills, strategic understanding, and leadership mindset required for success in a wide range of business and management roles. It prepares learners to take on supervisory, junior management, and operational leadership positions across private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Graduates of this qualification will be confident in applying leadership principles, managing people and resources, analysing performance, and making effective business decisions.
The diploma offers a balanced blend of theoretical knowledge and applied business practice, covering key areas such as strategic leadership, marketing, human resource management, operations, business finance, and organisational development.
Learners will gain insights into how organisations function within complex and changing environments and how to make informed managerial decisions aligned with ethical, sustainable, and responsible business practices. The qualification emphasises leadership capability, critical thinking, and performance improvement to prepare learners for the realities of modern business management.
The qualification aims to enable learners to:
- Understand and apply management and leadership principles within diverse business contexts.
- Analyse organisational performance using financial, operational, and strategic data.
- Develop effective strategies for managing people, projects, and change.
- Demonstrate ethical, sustainable, and responsible leadership behaviours.
- Communicate and lead effectively within teams and across functional boundaries.
- Apply critical thinking and evidence-based approaches to solve business problems.
- Prepare for further academic progression or professional management roles.
Course Structure
The overall structure of EBMA Level 5 Diploma in Business Management and Leadership is based on 8 mandatory modules that cover a number of topics relating to learning outcomes. Each unit has the equivalency of 15 credits. At the end of the course, the learner will achieve overall 120 credit points.
| Unit No. | Unit Title | Credit Value | Guided Learning Hours (Approx.) | Indicative Learning Outcomes |
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| 1 | Business Environment and Strategic Context | 15 | 60 | Understand external and internal factors influencing business strategy and performance. |
| 2 | Management and Leadership Principles | 15 | 60 | Analyse management functions, leadership styles, and motivational approaches in organisations. |
| 3 | Organisational Behaviour and Team Management | 15 | 60 | Examine behaviour within organisations and apply techniques to manage people and teams effectively. |
| 4 | Marketing Management and Customer Experience | 15 | 60 | Apply marketing principles and customer relationship management techniques to enhance business performance. |
| 5 | Financial Decision-Making for Managers | 15 | 60 | Interpret financial data and use financial tools to support managerial decision-making. |
| 6 | Operations and Project Management | 15 | 60 | Manage operations and projects effectively to improve business efficiency and outcomes. |
| 7 | Decision-Making for Managers | 15 | 60 | Apply problem-solving and decision-making models to business challenges and evaluate leadership judgement. |
| 8 | Ethics, Governance and Sustainable Business Practice | 15 | 60 | Evaluate the role of ethical leadership, governance, and sustainability in responsible management. |
Entry Requirements
Applicants should demonstrate the academic ability and motivation to benefit from and successfully complete the qualification. Learners must meet one of the following criteria:
- A Level 4 qualification (or equivalent) in business, management, or a related discipline; or
- Applicants with substantial relevant work experience (typically two years or more in a business or supervisory role) may be considered if they can demonstrate the ability to meet the demands of the programme through a professional CV and/or interview.
Assessment
Assessment throughout the qualification is designed to test both knowledge and practical competence. The methods include:
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Written assignments and reports
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Case study and scenario-based tasks
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Reflective accounts and learning journals
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Presentations and group projects
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Portfolio of evidence
Learners are required to write an assignment of each unit. Assignments are important part of learners’ work at the Centre. There are strict rules about:-
- Plagiarism – using another person’s words out of a book/ journal article/ conversation/ lecture without formally acknowledging it,
- Referencing – how to reference and refer to another person’s work in your written work so you avoid plagiarism,
- Word length of essays and reports,
- Presentation and style of a report, including the style of language used, and
- Learners are required to sign a declaration of authentication to confirm that the work is their own and that any assistance given and/or sources used have been acknowledged.
All learning outcomes must be assessed using assignment appropriate to the assessment of knowledge, understanding and skills. The Qualifications within this suite are vocational because they support a Learner’s career progression. Assessments will contain a question strand for each of the given unit’s Learning Outcomes. The assignment tasks will address the LO (Learning Outcome) and AC (Assessment Criteria) requirements. Within assignments there will always be requirements for Learner’s to engage with important and relevant theory that underpins the subject area
There must be valid, sufficient, and authentic evidence of all the assessment criteria.
Submitted assignments should be marked by an assessor. In order to pass a unit, a learner must achieve 50% marks in each assignment.
Assessors must plan, gather and then assess learner’s evidence according to level descriptors’ requirements and on the basis of Pass/Fail criteria. These should be made available for internal verification to the centre Internal Quality Assurer (IQA).
EBMA External Quality Assurer (EQA) undertakes external moderation to monitor the assessment, internal moderation processes within the centre to make sure the assessment remains fit for purpose, and that the assessment process and practices by the centre continue to meet assessment standards requirements.
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Career Development
The Level 5 Diploma in Business Management and Leadership equips learners with the practical skills, strategic understanding, and leadership mindset required for success in a wide range of business and management roles. It prepares learners to take on supervisory, junior management, and operational leadership positions across private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Graduates of this qualification will be confident in applying leadership principles, managing people and resources, analysing performance, and making effective business decisions.
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