BA (Hons) Business Management

Your introductory module will prepare you for your future studies as you learn about topics including markets, customers, finance, operations, communication, information technology, and business strategy. You’ll start to gain a multidisciplinary view of business and management.

By exploring the impact of contemporary business issues, you’ll start asking questions and developing your academic and research skills. This module will show you that the study of business goes beyond focussing just on its mechanisms, and into contemporary issues like sustainability, discrimination, and corporate social responsibility.

This module will consider the role of management in more detail, giving you the opportunity to develop skills that are vital for making good decisions as a manager. You’ll think about business goals and objectives, and the differences between managers, before considering what they do, and what influences how effective they are.

You’ll learn the basics of accounting and financial reporting in this module. It’ll teach you how to read, prepare, and evaluate financial information; understand the reasons for generating this information depending on your user groups; and encourage you to know about and question current financial reporting practices.

In this module, you’ll get to know the basic concepts of understanding organisations and people. You’ll learn about the range of factors that influence behaviour in the workplace, and how leadership shapes the ways organisations work. You’ll cover topics like teamwork, and the relationship between leadership and organisational culture.

This module will introduce you to marketing in business, covering the marketing mix and the importance of market orientation. You’ll discover the principles of marketing in business management, and explore the value of a marketing plan in meeting an organisation’s goals.

You’ll gain knowledge and a practical understanding of international business, including key concepts to help you understand global processes, opportunities, and challenges. You’ll also be able to work through different strategies for firms that are extending their work across borders.

This module will look at how to manage digital systems across a broad range of organisations, from management, technical, and ethical perspectives. By the end of this part of the programme, you’ll understand the needs of business management systems, and how to manage data.

You’ll learn the tools and techniques businesses use to source, produce, deliver, and support the goods and services they offer in this module. You’ll get to know tools and techniques of operations and supply management, understand why they’re important in giving businesses a competitive edge, and think about how they help a business deal with challenges.

This part of the programme will help you understand the operational aspects of human resource management and some of the most important issues in managing people. You’ll bring it all together by combining theory with real-life application and individual practice.

You’ll take realistic business settings and learn how to use financial analysis techniques in this module. You’ll explore and work with financial information, then discover how to present this data in a way that’s suitable for managers.

This module will prepare you to work on a research proposal based on a business and management topic. You’ll learn about a range of potential approaches and methods, as well as the benefits of identifying and solving organisational problems.

The Strategic Management module will develop your understanding about issues that affect how a business performs. You’ll also learn how to apply quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques to explore performance issues in business.

You’ll find out about the ‘people’ aspects of ethical and sustainable organisational change in this module. You’ll also learn about change processes and outcomes in local and global businesses or public sector settings, and explore the theory and practice of change at the level of an organisation.

This module takes a close look at the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. You’ll try out a mix of interactive activities and tasks focusing on theory and academic insight. You’ll also engage in practical applications such as discussions based on business case studies.

You’ll explore business sustainability and the role it plays in the causes and consequences of global climate change and resource depletion in this module. You’ll critically analyse data on the environmental impacts of business activities, and develop a project about sustainable business practice.

As your final piece of work, you’ll plan and complete an Applied Business Project investigating a business issue. You’ll do this mostly independently, supported by supervision sessions.