The revised BTEC national Diploma core modules will be a single core module - Working in Organisations taught together with Common Skills. This book provides teachers with the new specifications of a BTEC National Diploma award and all the underpinning knowledge students will need for NVQ level 3. Building on the common skills of a BTEC National, its thematic approach is ideally suited to BTEC's block sructure mode of delivery. It is designed to develop in students a broad understanding of the nature and functions of organisations which will underpin the NVQ competencies specified by the Industry Lead Bodies. The book is designed for use as a classroom text, suitable for resource-based learning with a range of newspaper and magazine articles and case studies. It takes an takes an active-learning, task-based approach which develops the students' information technology skills, analytical and quantitive skills and communication skills. Each chapter integrates BTEC's core skills and allows options to be integrated within the cor blocks, or taught as a follow-on.