Business Management (Final Year Entry)

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Business at the Cutting Edge

  Through this module you will equip yourself with the necessary skills to appreciate, understand, and cope within a fast paced, changing, challenging, and uncertain business environment. You will examine current disruptive innovations which are challenging the norms of business models and therefore academic thinking. Helping you to develop a cutting edge confidence with business understanding at the fast paced edge of the business world.

• Essential Skills for Academic Success

  In this module you will start to develop your academic literacies to use on other modules across your final year programme including:

  • research skills
  • critical thinking
  • reflection
  • academic writing
  • and presentation skills.

• Leading and Managing Change

  After completing this module, you will have an understanding of the nature of change and key theories, frameworks, principles and practices relevant for the management and leadership of change. You'll be able to evaluate critically the actions taken by those leading change. You will be better prepared to lead and manage change in your own managerial careers and have an increased awareness of your own potential for ongoing personal development in leading and managing change.

• Managing Careers

  Build your knowledge of the theory and practice of career management. You will  demonstrate critical insight into your own knowledge, skills and experience and consider how this might allow you to manage your post-graduation career. You will also apply these ideas as you develop and run a learning activity for others. 

• Business Ethics

  This module is designed to address our changing world that is facing social and environmental challenges. You’ll develop the capacity to make ethically defensible decisions as members of business organisations and of society in general. You’ll analyse and evaluate the ethical propositions of others. And you’ll evaluate the ethics of different systemic models of production, distribution and exchange.Upon completing this module you will be able to evaluate and apply ethical reasoning to local and global business dilemmas and economic systems, and you’ll be able to evaluate the significance of a range of western and non-western ethical perspectives.

• Strategic Management

  Explore prevailing business themes and their impact on strategy at a corporate level. You will tackle contemporary business cases and evidence to explore the influences of key drivers at national and international levels on the strategies, behaviours and management of organisations.

• Critical Enquiry Research Project

  Engage with an independent research project. This module will draw together your research skills developed earlier in the programme to support you to develop an extended study on a topic of your choosing within the business and management field. The project includes designing and implementing an investigation which takes account of multiple and possibly conflicting stakeholder objectives; applies suitable research approaches in an ethical manner; and communicates, using suitable technologies, with the intention of making recommendations for practice.