About this Programme

This BA (Hons) Business Management programme covers a broad range of management topics, providing students with an overview of how businesses operate and how managers can effectively influence and improve business performance. The modules ensure students develop a solid understanding of fundamental principles, crucial elements of management, leadership, and strategy, alongside skills that will support their employment or further study post-graduation. Designed to support future career ambitions, each module requires students to learn and apply ideas and develop practical skills. Graduates emerge with a diverse range of skills and knowledge applicable to careers in multinational corporations, small businesses, family firms, the public sector, charities, or for those aspiring to start their own company.

What You'll Learn

This course aims to provide a systematic understanding of key aspects of business management and prepare you for a fulfilling career. Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of business management, including coherent and detailed knowledge at or informed by the forefront of defined discipline aspects.

• Effectively communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

• Describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research relating to business, management, or leadership, appreciating the uncertainty, ambiguity, and limits of knowledge.

• Accurately deploy established techniques of analysis and enquiry and apply these to offer insight into problems or challenges facing a range of businesses.

• Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts, and data, to make judgments, frame appropriate questions, and identify solutions to problems.

• Devise and sustain arguments and/or solve problems using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of current management research.

• Manage your own learning and personal development.

• Demonstrate qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring initiative and personal responsibility, decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts, and the learning ability needed for further professional training.

Indicative Modules

• Induction Module

• Foundations in Business and Management

• Exploring Marketing

• Academic and Study Skills

• Understanding Global Management Perspectives

• Foundations of Accounting & Economics

• Independent Project

• Entry Level Maths

• Management and Managing: an introduction

• Introduction to Marketing

• Business and Economics

• Accounting for Business

• Understanding the Entrepreneurial Spirit

• Delivering Successful Projects

• Analysing Organisational Behaviour

• Designing and Developing HR Activities for Maximum Impact

• Consumer Behaviour and Relationship Management

• Globalisation, Capitalism and Growth

• Business Ethics

• Designing and Running a Research Project

• Leading and Managing Change

• Exploring Strategic Management

• Corporate Financial Strategy

• Managing HR Strategically

• Extended Project

Career Opportunities

Graduates of this BA (Hons) Business Management program will possess a broad range of skills and knowledge, preparing them for diverse career paths. They will be well-suited for roles in multinational companies, small businesses, family firms, the public sector, and charities. The program also strongly supports those who aspire to start their own company. Graduates will have developed personal and professional skills in communication, group interaction, information finding, analysis, and problem-solving, making them valuable assets for management or leadership roles across various industries.