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OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic

Management and Leadership Practice
Qualification Number: 603/6996/6

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Overview Entry requirements

Overview
The objective of the OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic
Management and Leadership Practice qualification is to
develop strategic management and leadership skills for
managers who have the authority and personal attributes to
translate organisational strategy into effective operational
performance.

This qualification reflects current practice in Strategic

Management and Leadership and allows learners to develop
and expand their high-level understanding of strategic
management and leadership in the workplace. This
qualification is suitable for mature learners with a
background in academic study or industry. The qualification
has a clear work-related emphasis on practical skills
development alongside theoretical fundamentals.

The qualification will enable learners to become

independent, self-directed learners with tools and motivation
to continue learning, developing, and reflecting on practice
throughout their careers.

The course aims for the following:

• To enable learners to apply analytical and evaluative

techniques to business in private and public sectors.

• To enhance analytical and evaluative skills relating to

business across a number of industries.

• To develop the learners ability to recognise and reflect on

the process of personal learning and development which

facilitates the enhancement of key personal, sociable and

other transferable skills.

• To develop the learners ability to formulate and use

appropriate methodologies and approaches.

• To ensure the learner understands how to initiate, design

and undertake research, development or strategic

activities that extend or produce significant change in the

field of work or study.

• To ensure the learner can critically evaluate actions,

methods and results and their short and long-term

implications for the field of work or knowledge and its

wider context.

Learners completing the OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic

Management and Leadership Practice can progress to a
university partner to discuss a research proposal for
DBA/DProf/PhD or directly into employment in an
associated profession.

Entry requirements
If English is not your first language, either evidence that the
master’s degree was taught mainly or entirely in English, a
minimum TOEFL score of 101 or a minimum IELTS score of
6.5, or an equivalent English language qualification.

Selection
The OTHM approved Centre must ensure that learners are
enrolled with integrity. Entry to the qualification will be
considered on the basis of

• an up-to-date and comprehensive CV

• submission of a personal statement and

• centre interview to assess suitability and potential to

achieve
• details of 2 referees or 2 references, one of which should

ideally be an academic reference

• ability to demonstrate appropriate links to the practice the

proposed research refers to.

Equivalences
OTHM qualifications at RQF Level 8 portray practice skills
and competencies that are rated in academic terms as being
comparable to Doctoral Degrees and Vocational
Qualifications at Level 8.

Qualification structure
The OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and
Leadership consists of 5 mandatory units and 6 optional
units making a combined total of 180 credits, 1800 hours
Total Qualification Time (TQT) and 900 Guided Learning
Hours (GLH) for the completed qualification.

Please Note:
The Group B Optional Units are drawn from the OTHM
Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership. If
you have previously completed any of these units, they will
be recognised and do not need to be repeated.

Learners are required to fulfil a total of three optional unit

requirements:

• If you have already completed three relevant units at Level

7, no optional units are required.

• If you have completed two, you are required to complete

one optional unit to meet the requirements.

Mandatory units
• Developing Strategic Management and Leadership

Potential (20 credits)

• Managing Strategic Change (20 credits)

• Project Development, Planning and Management (20

credits)

• Advanced Research Design and Methodologies (40

credits)

• Developing Research Capability (20 credits)

Optional units: Choose any THREE:

• Globalisation and Corporate Governance (20 credits)

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation (20 credits

• Strategic Human Resource Management (20 credits)

• Supply Chain and Operations Management (20 credits)

• Strategic Financial Management (20 credits)

• Strategic Marketing (20 credits)

Duration and delivery

The qualification is designed to be delivered over 18 months
academic for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its
delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance
learning.

The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures,

tutorials, seminars, distance, online by approved centres
only.

Assessment and verification

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by
the centre and externally verified by OTHM. The
qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the
achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence

to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning
outcomes and meet the standards specified by all
assessment criteria. Judgement that the learners have
successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the
Assessor.

The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the

judgement of the learners’ overall achievement has been
arrived at.

Progressions
Learners completing the OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic
Management and Leadership Practice can progress to a
university partner to discuss a research proposal for
DBA/DProf/PhD or directly into employment in an
associated profession. The qualification is approved and
regulated by Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and
Examinations Regulation).

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