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B1 - Overview
Support the efficient use of resources (MCI)

This unit is about the efficient management of resources for which you have authority and responsibility. It covers recommending the resources you and your team need to meet your objectives. It also covers monitoring and controlling the way in which resources are used.

It is for you if you are a manager or supervisor with:

• a tightly defined area of responsibility
• some limited opportunity for taking decisions and managing budgets
• responsibility for achieving specific results by using resources effectively, and
• responsibility for allocating work to team members, colleagues or contractors

To achieve your unit certificate, you must show that you can 

In order to make recommendations for the use of resources, you need to involve people in identifying the resources your team needs. You need to look at how resources were used in the past, and at trends and developments in your organisation and industry which may affect your choice of resources. You need to identify the benefits which your recommendations may bring, and make your recommendations in an appropriate and timely manner.You should continuously contribute to the control of resources. You need to encourage people to take responsibility for the way they use resources. You need to make sure resources are used efficiently and in ways which maintain the quality of services and products. You need to spot problems with the use of resources and make recommendations to correct these problems. You also need to keep accurate and complete records of the resources used.

Collecting the evidence for this unit

Your performance evidence must show that you have covered all of the statements in the You must show that section in each element, and must be the result of real work activities in actual production situations. Simulation is not acceptable for this unit.
Your assessor will need to be satisfied that you have the necessary understanding specified in each 'K' list. Where this is not evident from your performance, you may be asked oral or written questions, or to write a short report.

You may need to provide other information to support your performance evidence. Here are some examples:

Work activities

• presentations of your recommendations to relevant people
• contributions to team meetings

Products or outcomes

• correspondence, memos and file notes
• project proposals, recommendations and contingency plans
• specifications and project plans
• business plans, development plans and continuous improvement plans
• periodic reports of expenditure against budget, identifying significant deviations and recommending corrective action
• minutes of meetings, file notes and correspondence explaining resource position and securing agreement to requests

Written or spoken reports, describing

• the reasons for and the benefits of recommendations you have made for the use of resources
• how your recommendations for resources use are consistent with organisational policies
• how you reached your conclusions about resource use and what use was made of existing data or past experiences
• your management information systems, reporting procedures and monitoring systems and procedures
• how you identified and dealt with problems
• your level of authority and your ability to influence others outside your area of authority
• how you consulted others and got them involved

Witness testimony

• statements from people who observed you making recommendations for the use of resources
• statements from people who were given the opportunity to take responsibility for the efficient use of resources
  
  

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