Business Management (1 year top-up) BA Please login to Apply

What will you study on BA Business Management (1 year top-up)?

Alongside building effective business skills, you'll develop your knowledge of organisations, their functions, structure and management. You'll also study the operations of organisations as well as the models and techniques used to achieve successful results.

During the course, you'll study two compulsory modules designed to advance your skills and knowledge in topics fundamental to managerial decision making. The Entrepreneurship and Small Business module provides an excellent foundation for setting up and running your own business. You'll also choose four optional modules in a range of different areas so you can tailor your studies to your interests.

Modules

• Core modules

  • Strategic Management (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module presents a broad and integrated view of strategic management in organisations. You'll be introduced to strategic external and internal analysis and be encouraged to discuss competitive strategy and how businesses differentiate themselves. You'll also investigate corporate and international strategies and the links between environment, strategy and organisational culture.

  • Workforce Management (15 credits) - Compulsory

    This module aims to develop your understanding and critical awareness of issues associated with managing contemporary workforce. You'll learn how increasingly diverse workforce composition and the changing nature of work and socio-economic environment result in new and unique challenges that managers face today. Through using cutting edge research, case studies and self-reflexive exercises, you'll be  encouraged to critically re-evaluate the traditional management thinking and practices and explore alternative approaches and responses to the contemporary management issues.

  • Professional Communication (15 credits) - Compulsory

    This module enables you to develop an understanding of strategies commonly used in professional discourse. It integrates concepts and approaches from applied linguistics and social psychology into the management of professional communication in a range of business settings. By exploring and contextualising professional discourse strategies, you'll develop systematic and explicit approaches to analysing, evaluating and constructing strategic communication.

• Choose one of the following optional modules

  • Innovation Management (30 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to develop your understanding of the role of innovation as a key factor in a dynamic business environment and to equip you with the knowledge, expertise and skills needed to manage the innovation process at both strategic and operational level. You'll gain an up-to-date overview of the mainstream theories and models of innovation and illustrates successful organisational practices through case study analysis.

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (30 credits) - Optional

    The aim of this module is to promote greater awareness and understanding of the importance of diversity issues from both a national and international perspective. This module also provides insight to the implications of diversity from a societal, organisational, and employee standpoint. A range of diversity debates, concepts and practices regarding equality, fairness and inclusion are also explored. This is used as a means for endorsing the significance of diversity management to careers and business sustainability and success. A variety of topics are covered including cross-cultural management, gender disparity, age perception, disability awareness, effective multicultural teamworking, and diversity legislation.

  • Business Start-Up (30 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to introduce the complexities of starting a business. It draws together a range of theories, concepts, and notions from several sources such as Finance, Marketing, and Strategy. You'll use the development of a unique business plan through which you'll learn, practice, and apply the necessary academic and practical knowledge and skill sets, including team working, required for the establishment of a new business, as well as an understanding of the complexities relating to the functioning of a small business.

  • Principles of Project Management (30 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to develop you understanding of the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of projects in a variety of sectors. You'll explore how projects are managed using up-to-date project management tools and technologies. You'll also develop awareness of the role of projects in the wider economy.

  • Global Supply Chain Management (30 credits) - Optional

    This module introduces the theories and techniques relevant to the management of global demand and global supply within the parameters of corporate and business unit strategies. You'll develop critical insights in design, implementation and operation of global supply chains while employing these to develop your own case studies.

  • Business Game (30 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to demonstrate the importance of integrated business functions to achieve business success. You'll use business simulations to gain experience in how a firm can integrate key aspects of business and management in order to succeed in a competitive environment.

  • Research Project (30 credits) - Optional

    This module is designed to develop your skills and knowledge in planning and conducting a small-scale research project. You'll be required to consolidate learning from other modules to plan and complete a small business and management related research project. You'll learn how to conduct research, including defining research aims and objectives, conducting literature reviews, collecting primary data, analysing and interpreting data, and organising and presenting research proposals and final dissertation documents.

  • Consulting in Organisations (30 credits) - Optional

    This module introduces organisation consulting. It builds on learning from prior modules and provides a theoretical introduction to consulting and the idea of the learning organisation. You'll be required to undertake a live team-consulting project to identify solutions to real business issues. This module also gives you the opportunity to apply theory to practice and to develop employability skills. These include team-building, communication, interpersonal, and reflective skills that can boost employment outcomes.

  • Work Internship (30 credits) - Optional

    This module will give you the opportunity to undertake a period of work experience (minimum of 30 days) from which you'll learn about how businesses run in general, the organisation and the sector within which it operates as well as the key drivers of business success. The work internship will allow you to immerse yourself in the world of work and develop effective strategies to deal with work and organisational life. You'll be able to develop an understanding of work, reflexivity, resilience, wellbeing and the link between theory and practice. Through reflection on experiential learning, you'll enhance your awareness of your own abilities and attributes, and undertake a journey of personal and professional development.

• Choose one of the following optional modules

  • Leadership (15 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to further develop and enhance your leadership knowledge and understanding within business organisations on the subject areas of leadership styles and approaches, ethics, equality and diversity as well as personal leadership development.You'll gain a more in-depth appreciation of the challenges faced by leaders in contemporary businesses who need to meet the needs of a range of stakeholders, assess the impact of leadership on organisational culture and behaviour as well as recognise when change is necessary.

  • Coaching and Mentoring (15 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to develop and enhance your understanding and knowledge of coaching and mentoring in different sectors and contexts. You'll gain a more in-depth understanding of the roles of coaching and mentoring in supporting individuals and teams, in additional to providing an overview of coaching and mentoring programme design, implementation and evaluation.

  • Business Ethics (15 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to enhance your critical thinking skills by engaging in an in-depth exploration of ethics and social responsibility in business. You'll gain the knowledge and skills needed to identify, analyse, and develop effective responses to ethical issues and challenges in business. You'll also develop an ability to assess issues from different points of view, including from individual, organisational and societal perspectives; and to apply and critically evaluate mechanisms and tools typically used to address ethical and social responsibility issues.

  • Sustainable Business (15 credits) - Optional

    This module focuses specifically on the development of the competences needed to develop sustainable business. You'll gain the knowledge and skills of sustainable business to make a strong contribution to society, economy and the environment. You'll be enabled through a competency-based approach that links real-world orientation, with personal development and coaching, to the development and management of sustainable business.

  • Services Marketing Management (15 credits) - Optional

    This module explores services marketing management from an operations perspective.You'll explore in-depth the services pf marketing management, emphasising concepts, practices and techniques that are pertinent to the service sector. You'll synthesise and apply services management marketing theories, concepts and techniques to practice through the use of specialised service-sector case studies. You may eventually work in the service sector, and this module aims to inspire and shape your career.

• Choose one of the following optional modules

  • Strategic Management Accounting (15 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to build on your knowledge of management accounting by looking at the wider measures of performance and decision making and the techniques that can be applied to such situations. The module attempts to give a broad understanding and critical evaluation of performance measurement. This includes quality and innovation as well as financial measures. The techniques and theory covered lead to a wider understanding of strategic decision making as well as overall company performance.

  • Entrepreneurial Finance (15 credits) - Optional

    The module aims to provide you with an awareness and understanding of the mechanics, challenges and issues related to the different ways of financing an enterprise. The includes an understanding of key financial statements, the financial planning process, sources of funding and the financial risks and rewards of entrepreneurship.

  • Organisational Change (15 credits) - Optional

    All contemporary organisations operate in an increasingly dynamic environment. This module aims to develop your critical understanding of organisational change and managing organisational change. You'll explore different theoretical frameworks, concepts, techniques and tools for managing change.

  • Business Analytics (15 credits) - Optional

    This module provides an excellent opportunity for you to demonstrate higher order employability skills such as the ability to design and deliver a small research project, learn independently and through supervision, and undertake an extended, methodical piece of work. A well-executed research project will give you something to distinguish yourself from your peers as well as the opportunity to show why you might be a superior candidate for graduate employment.

  • Managing Business in Asia (15 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to develop your critical understanding of the political, economic and business management systems of Asian countries and their impact to international business.