BSc (Hons)Business Management

Core modules

Operations Management

This module examines processes, tools and techniques used in operations management to ensure customer satisfaction and analyse delivery issues, and provides opportunities to apply your knowledge in practice.

Project Management in Business

Informed by Association for Project Management (APM) standards, this module will teach you best practice including stakeholder engagement, communications and leadership – as well as exploring contemporary challenges in project management. You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake the Project Fundamentals qualification for an additional cost.

Values Driven Leadership

To manage others, you need to reflect on self-management too. This module explores your self-management, personal values and journey, interweaving the essential management and leadership skills to successfully manage teams.

Social Enterprise

This module will explore the role, legal status and challenges of social and community enterprise – letting you show employers you are values motivated and socially responsible, and understand ethical business.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Integrated Marketing Communications

Exploring the complexities of integrated marketing communications theory, you will research, plan and develop an integrated campaign from brief to execution, understanding consumers and appropriate media channels, and developing messages to help position a product or service.

Analytics and Business Intelligence

Modern organisations use data to help them review, plan, and forecast, as well as for fraud detection, risk management, marketing and more. This module incorporates advanced analytical and modelling techniques – as well as their practical applications.

Global Challenges for Sustainable Growth

Explore some of the most important contemporary business issues as a future manager, including urbanisation, demographic and social change, global economic shifts, technological advances, resource scarcity and climate change.

The UK Financial System

This module is concerned with the analysis of financial institutions and markets in the UK, which are crucially important for the operation of a successful modern economy.

Capital Market Trading

Understand money and the markets in our globalised economy. Explore the language of finance; test and observe diverse investment strategies; and learn how key information can dramatically affect share prices.

Customer Experience

This module introduces models and concepts including the Pillars of Customer Experience and the experience economy, teaches you to evaluate the customer experience and journey using data, and explores modern tactics such as sensory and experiential marketing.

Human Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) requires a great deal of thought into the design, implementation and intended use. This module draws upon demographic, accessibility, cognitive science and social and ethical principles, providing essential skills for analysis and design of efficient, easy-to-use systems.

Study Abroad/Placement

The opportunity to study abroad broadens your horizons by adding an international dimension to your CV - essential to achieving success in today's fast-changing, global business environment. An international placement boosts your employability and lets you ‘test drive’ a career to see if it’s right for you. Enhance your professional skills, get practical experience, and build your network.

Real-World Skills in Action: Elevate Your Expertise

The experience gained through employment should challenge you to develop your knowledge, skills and professional behaviours to the next professional level. At this point of your degree, it is time to elevate your expertise through the development of wider business competencies aligned to professional standards. You'll extend the knowledge and skills gained from your previous modules of study within a real-world setting. Utilising a skills diagnostic tool and feedback from your employer, you'll write a professional development plan that supports the development of self-awareness and the identification of values driven practice as a future manager. To gain the credit for this module you'll need to undertake a minimum of 40 hours of employment across the semester. This can be achieved by utilising your existing part-time job role.

Core modules

Sustainable Strategic Management

Learn how senior managers and chief executive officers identify, select and manage strategy. Critically evaluate a wide range of strategic management theories and models, and learn how to apply and implement them.

Developing the Professional Manager

Evaluate your aspirations and create a career development plan to start your own business or secure a graduate position – exploring digital profiles, job hunting, how to stand out, and more.

Research Methods

Develop your research and analytical skills, designing research in a way that is valid, and reliable, and apply it in business – impacting product development, customer service, strategy and more.

Final Major Project

Apply research and analytical skills to your chosen topics of business. Carry out primary research, interpret your findings using relevant tools and techniques, formulate options and draw conclusions and recommendations.

Ecological Economics

Business needs to change – fast. As a future manager and leader, you will consider climate change and the underlying economics, critically evaluating proposed solutions and their ecological and economic impacts.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Business Start Up

Develop the knowledge to overcome barriers to entrepreneurism, from lack of capital to fear of failure; explore planning, development and management techniques to take your business from aspiration to reality.

International Financial Reporting and Analysis

Keep up to date with financial reporting practices in an ever-changing global environment. Explore contrasts between regional accounting styles, and investigate challenges in business performance analysis across national boundaries.

International Marketing

This module explores how key concepts and theories of marketing can be applied to new markets and countries. You will analyse international markets, learn to understand cultural differences, and examine how businesses adapt marketing strategies for new markets.

Global People and Inclusive Management

Businesses need to be agile to adapt and thrive. On this module you will develop your emotional intelligence (EQ), intercultural competence (ICC), and understanding of people management to embrace diversity and inclusivity, and co-create productivity in an age of digital transformation.

Real World Skills in Action: Mastery Unleashed

As a future leader or manager, this module gives you the opportunity to develop your capacity to manage more complex activity that has impact for your organisation. The module will support you to have good conversations with your employer to facilitate you taking on more significant responsibility associated with a micro project while enabling you to develop aspects of your management and leadership skills, knowledge, self-awareness, and behaviours in line with professional standards. These will include decision making, setting targets and achieving results, clear communication, developing skills and motivating others, and fostering inclusive and ethical cultures, developing specialist skills in line with your degree path alongside effective stakeholder relationships. To gain the credit for this module you will need to undertake 40 hours of employment across the semester.