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Studying our Business Management (with Placement) BSc (Hons) course will equip you with the in-depth knowledge and skills in accounting, marketing and strategy alongside a 12-week industry work placement. In introductory areas of study, our Evolution and Revolution of Business unit will allow you to explore how businesses operate, develop, progress and impact society. To help with this, our unit in Applied Numeracy for Business will give you the confidence to develop the mathematical and numerical skills used for decision making and problem solving for businesses.

Another crucial skill in the business world is risk management – and this is where our Risk and Responsibility unit will develop your understanding of business challenges, responsible management and business ethics in a global context. Here, you will learn to apply risk management frameworks and risk mitigation strategies across systemic, financial, operational and strategic risks. However, you will still be encouraged to take risks in our Innovation and Entrepreneurship unit. Here, you will learn to design innovative business models, discover how to start a new business and build your understanding on concepts of entrepreneurship.

Similarly, our Strategic Leadership unit will enable you to design realistic and practical strategies for businesses and identify trends while developing your employability skills. In areas of law study. To diversify your learning, you will also be provided with a range of skills for leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing, management analysis, strategy setting and finance in our Management in Practice unit. More importantly, you will be equipped with data manipulation techniques in our Data Driven Business unit while exploring trends and ethical concerns around data collection, use and analysis. In other areas of study, you will tackle environmental issues in our Business Continuity and the Planet unit that will allow you to investigate the strategic risks and challenges posed towards business operations including climate change, cybersecurity and supply chain risks.

To prepare you for your career, our Employability and the Future Workplace unit will support you in developing the skills needed to prepare for interviews, psychometric tests and assessment centres. You will receive similar support in our Beginning your Professional Business Journey unit that will help to ease your transition into the workplace and provide an insight into professional business environments.

Applied Numeracy For Business

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you through the begin stage at Level 4, to the thrive stage at level 5, to succeed stage at level 6.  
This unit is designed to support your Begin stage at level 4, it develops the numeracy skills and abilities you need to succeed in your studies and in the business world. The unit is designed to support you and develop your confidence in essential mathematics and statistics techniques, it applies these techniques in business context to give you an understanding of how they are used to solve problems and make decision in business organisations.

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The unit aims to achieve 

• provide students with the fundamental knowledge and understanding of numeracy in business.   
• develop student confidence in a range of numerical and statistical techniques.
• enable students apply a range of numerical and statistical techniques to practical business problems.   

Beginning Your Professional Business Journey

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you from the Begin stage at Level 4, to the Thrive stage at Level 5 through to the Succeed stage at Level 6. This unit is designed to support the Begin/Thrive/Succeed stage by introducing you to the skills that you will require in order to develop your professional practice.

The connected core spine of units also enables you to network with peers from across the faculty just as you will be expected to work with colleagues throughout the organisation in the world of business.  

This unit will help you to begin your journey in Business and provide you with the support you will need to develop your professional practice.

In this unit you will be presented with Business challenges which will allow you to collaborate with peers, and provide an insight in to a professional Business environment. 

Cross-Cultural Management In Business

Aims: The aims of this unit are to :

To conceptualise intercultural interaction and produce frameworks for comparing cultures in international business and develop rapport management competencies in business interactions
To undertake a detailed investigation of the changing face of management across cultures
Relevance: In this unit you will explore the application of intercultural communication theories in an international business environment. Emphasis is placed on developing intercultural interactive competence and introducing key aspects of managing behaviour and expectations across cultures. You will explore working relationships and different communication preferences with people from different cultural backgrounds, preparing you to work in an increasingly global environment.

Data And Research Methods For Business

This unit is part of a core spine of units that all Business students will encounter as part of their learning journey. This journey takes you to the Thrive stage at Level 5 and the unit is designed to support the Begin/Thrive/Succeed stage by building on the academic study skills and numeracy skills acquired during your first year and introduces you to both theory and practice of research and prepares you for the final year Research Project. 
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The ability to conduct research and to interpret information is a key skill in both the academic and commercial worlds. Effective managerial decision-making is heavily dependent on high-quality data and information in a variety of forms and from a variety of sources.  Gaining an understanding of research and of the research process, and experiencing it as part of a research community will provide valuable transferrable skills for a career in business or further study.  
 
This unit aims to achieve: 
an understanding and appreciation of the central role of data in business. 
an ability to evaluate information sources appropriately to support arguments and to inform decision-making at all levels. 
an appreciation of the benefits and limitations of common research approaches and quantitative and qualitative research methods. 
an understanding of common qualitative and quantitative research techniques including sampling and data collection approaches as well as data analysis. 

Accounting For Business

This unit covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting.

These are the essential building blocks for all students studying business degrees. This unit contains two areas of focus at the introductory level of study, namely: financial accounting and managerial accounting as follows:

Financial Accounting sessions

To develop an appreciation of elementary accounting theory and the conceptual underpinning for the reporting process;

To introduce the practice of organisational record-keeping;

To develop skills in the preparation and interpretation of the main accounting statements;

To provide an understanding of some of the difficulties and limitations in current financial reporting practice;

Managerial Accounting sessions

To develop an appreciation of elementary management accounting theory and the conceptual underpinning for the decision-making process;

To develop skills in the calculation and interpretation of absorption and marginal costing systems and budgeting processes;

To provide an understanding of some of the difficulties and limitations of the costing techniques available;

To appreciate the importance of theories and practice involved in the business decision-making process.

Managerial Accounting And Finance

The main aim of the unit is to enable you to understand how relevantaccounting and financial information can be harnessed to assist and inform management in planning, decision-making, performance measurement and control.

This will involve analysis of the core financial statements, the identification of relevant revenues and costs, managing limiting factors, performing analysis and providing solutions that assist and inform management at all levels. The unit also addresses the core finance theories and practice financial structuring, risk mitigation, long-term capital planning and short-term working capital management that augment the management accounting theories and techniques to inform management decision-making.

Foundations Of Business Management

To discuss how business organisations, develop and how functions are integrated to provide efficiency and effectiveness in delivering the business’ mission and objectives.

To identify and examine the key internal factors that impact internally upon the organisation being able to add value and deliver high performance and profitability.

To develop skills to work professionally in a business environment and improve your employability by developing high-order academic skills and self-awareness and personal development planning.

This unit will enhance your skills at an operational level so after graduation you can operate within a complex organisational setting. In addition, you will have practical skills that will enhance your employability by providing practical skills such as MS office and risk assessment skills etc. 

Principles Of Marketing

Marketing permeates every aspect of contemporary business practice and an understanding of marketing is a prerequisite for any aspiring manager. This pragmatic unit aims to develop your understanding of a range of key marketing tools, techniques and concepts used in business to consumer marketing. Theories are underpinned by practical examples and current activities from a wide range of businesses, and a wide variety of teaching approaches are used. The unit aims to help you to:

Develop an appreciation of commonly used theories and concepts that used to inform and shape decisions in business to consumer marketing.

Explore how to segment a market place and tailor offerings accordingly

Marketing Planning

Understanding how to create a marketing plan is essential to any business and will help you to establish your employability. Building on the first year Principles of Marketing unit, Marketing Planning enables you to plan for defined operational marketing activities through the development of a competent and sensible marketing plan.
The unit will explore competitive analysis and gap identification, how current issues give rise to marketing problems, market opportunities and new approaches for achieving marketing objectives to help you to:

• Achieve an understanding of decisions facing marketers and the complex and dynamic environment in which these decisions need to be made
• Develop critical insight into current techniques and practices in a variety of marketing environments including both corporate and entrepreneurial
• Build your “tool box” and use your critical evaluation skills to select as situation- appropriate
• Establish realistic marketing objectives
• Explore how marketing plans are created
• Match plans to corporate objectives and strategies.

Intercultural Management In Business

Aims: The aims of this unit are to :

• To conceptualise intercultural interaction and produce frameworks for comparing cultures in international business and develop rapport management competencies in business interactions
• To undertake a detailed investigation of the changing face of management across cultures

Relevance: In this unit you will explore the application of intercultural communication theories in an international business environment. Emphasis is placed on developing intercultural interactive competence and introducing key aspects of managing behaviour and expectations across cultures. You will explore working relationships and different communication preferences with people from different cultural backgrounds, preparing you to work in an increasingly global environment.

Human Resource Management

This unit introduces you to the role and purpose of Human Resource Management in a contemporary context. People are often the most expensive and valuable resource a business can draw upon, yet individuals are diverse and complex and maximising this resource can be challenging to HR and managers. The unit provides you with a framework to explore and understand people management and development to ensure high levels of employee performance, as you develop your graduate career. The unit will be significantly underpinned by a range of research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.  

The unit aims to make the business case for the effective, efficient, ethical and professional management of human resources as real sources of competitive advantage in organisations, by situating its activities in the context of topical and relevant debates and controversies.   

 The question key to this unit is: what are the people strategies that organisations must deploy in order to maximise and sustain employee organisational performance whilst simultaneously promoting healthy and productive relationships between individuals and organisations at all levels in different types of contemporary organisations?

Economics For Business

This unit aims to provide you the essential understanding of concepts in microeconomics and macroeconomics, as relevant for the study of business; to develop a sound understanding of the resource allocation issues facing the business corporation and the global environment in which firms operate. It examines the main concepts of economic theory and explores the importance of these within a business context, with emphasis on developing students the capacity to apply analytical techniques to real-world problems, especially in the business context

It answers the following question:

How firms, consumers and government interact in markets and how business decision-making is shaped by internal factors such as costs and by external market conditions. How are models of markets developed and used by economists to explain the pricing of goods and services. What are the impacts of macroeconomic policies on business decision-making?

Foundations Of Business Communication

To develop your body of knowledge in terms of the different management theories and approaches and to be aware of the basics of Macro and Micro economics.

To examine the external influences and environmental issues that affect organisations and their sustained development in the market place.

This unit will enhance your skills at an operational level so that after graduation you can operate within a complex organizational setting. In addition, you will have developed practical skills that will enhance your employability by providing practical skills such as MS office, basic accounting skills, risk assessment skills etc.

Law For Business Managers

Companies and their managers are often confronted with legal issues that may be crucial to the company’s future and a manager’s career. This unit aims to provide and equip future business managers with an awareness and understanding of the relevant legal framework, including that regulating company structures, risks and liabilities which will allow them to make considered use of professional legal advice.
The unit will explore what constitutes a simple contact, how contracts are formed and the rights and obligations that flow from basic contractual relations and tortious situations.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the relevance of intellectual property and brand awareness. In addition, the unit aims to consider issues that arise from contracts of employment and business disputes, mergers and acquisitions, international trade, and product liability.
Company structures and governance policy will be considered. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of directors within a company, their executive management function, and their duties and obligations.

Intercultural Competence In Business

Aims: The aims of this unit is to :

• To define the true nature of culture through a comparison of frameworks from multidisciplinary perspectives
• To analyse the dynamic nature of behaviour and language use in different contexts
• To apply theoretical concepts in promoting intercultural competence and provide solutions in a variety of business situations.

Relevance: International business demands intercultural competence in managing differences in interpersonal interactions. This unit introduces you to the principles of intercultural communication giving you the tools and theoretical knowledge to understand the role of culture in a variety of interpersonal encounters. You will explore conceptual issues: what is culture and intercultural interaction competence; how language impacts on understanding, rapport and impression management; and the adaptation process. You will then learn to apply these concepts in business situations and to your role as a future manager in an international/multicultural organisation.

A Students' Guide To Being Curious And Competent

Starting university is an exciting but also scary time and this unit will support and develop students with the core study skills to prepare them for studying successfully now and in the future. It is expected that everyone on this first semester unit will join with varying levels of experience in studying within an educational environment and that some will be returning to studies after a considerable break. There will also be an interesting mix of different career aspirations and a variety of different and valuable life skills and work experience to share with peers.

This unit will aim for students to become confident, competent, credible, creative, and curious learners who have a clear vision of opportunities available to them so that they can move into the first year of higher education as active and competent learners.  

Students will take control of their own skills journey with an individual learning plan, where they will develop and stretch themselves through a process of self-discovery and experimentation.  The supportive approach of this unit is to ensure students can experiment with different time management techniques, note taking methods and learning styles.  Students will also gain the knowledge and skills to navigate the key university systems, processes, procedures, and support systems available to students. A core aspiration of the unit is for students to be able to take responsibility for their own learning because they have the base skills to know how they need to study in order to succeed.

This unit will energise students for the future and provide a major step forward towards the kind of future they envisage for themselves. 

Upon completion of this unit students will be equipped and prepared to progress their studies successfully and have the confidence to reach out for support both within and outside of the university. 

Developing A Business Radar

In this second semester of study students will be feeling more confident in the university environment and will have the core study skills in place so that they are in a position to stretch and challenge themselves.  

This unit will aim for students to continue their journey towards being confident, competent, credible, creative and curious learners by offering the opportunity for them to explore how to continue to challenge themselves through further self discovery and experimentation. Students will be able to continue to expand their horizons and be encouraged to look to the wider world so that they can begin to develop a business radar.

A core aspiration of the unit is for students to investigate how the business world is ever changing and how organisations have to be agile in order to survive and thrive. Students will demonstrate a curiosity of business contexts and be encouraged to draw inspiration from the business world and to investigate how to fulfil their aspirational goals within this world.

Credibility And Your Professional Future

In the first semester units students gained a clear vision of the opportunities available to them so that they can move into the first year of higher education as active and competent learners. In this second semester of study students will continue their journey towards being confident, competent, credible, creative and curious learners by developing a wider perspective on skills to succeed and demonstrate credibility to future employers. 

This unit will aim for students to develop what it means to be a credible students and how students can learn how to be trusted to participate in a variety of learning communities and to adhere to professional codes of conduct.  

Students will take control of what professionalism means to their chosen career pathway, and continue to develop their curious mind set on what it means to study and work within a professional community.

The approach of this unit is to ensure students gain the knowledge and skills to maintain their academic integrity and successfully navigate the professional world of business.  Throughout this unit students will build their own academic glossary to take with them on their learning journey.

Students will move onto higher levels of education fully understanding ethical integrity and the rigours of fulfilling academic codes of practice.  

Aspiring To Succeed

As a new student you may have several thoughts buzzing through your mind, you may be wondering if you have made the right choice on embarking on this learning journey, you may be thinking will this course help me achieve my dream job that I desire? Whatever the scenario may be, this unit will help you have a clear vision, by taking you on an adventure of exploring what your aspirations are and what you need to do to achieve them, so that the world of work can be an oyster in your own hands. 

This unit will assist students to become a confident, competent, credible, creative, and curious learners who have a clear vision of opportunities available to them in the world of graduate work and the skills needed to enable them to follow and achieve their dreams. 

It will encourage you to appreciate the different sectors and roles available to work in and support you to understand the skills that are needed in different job roles. This unit will give you the chance to review your job interests against your current skill set and highlight what you need to develop or improve on. It will set you with the foundation that you need to know about employability skills and what is out there in the world beyond your current job role and how your desires and aspirations can be achieved. 

This unit will run alongside the other first semester unit with the aim of providing an insight into graduate job roles and linking it to student aspirations. You will find that while studying this unit you will grow as learner and develop resilience and be stretched and challenged on the way of exploring your aspirations and ways of meeting them by developing the skills and planning to develop those skills. This will help you with further studies and the world of work. 

English Language Foundation

This unit focuses on your ability to understand and use the English language accurately when you read, speak, listen and write. We will concentrate on the English you need for undergraduate level study in your chosen subject area, covering grammar, subject area vocabulary and the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

A key element of the unit is the grammar of the language, and particularly the verb tense system in English, because your ability to use the verb tense system accurately will be extremely important when you come to write essays and reports. This unit will focus in particular on the grammar of the language.

We will also focus on reading, listening and speaking skills in the context of your chosen subject area. Beginning with short texts, we will practise each skill and practise it again, so that gradually you will see, hear and feel that your command of the language is improving. 

A recurring focus of the unit will be your acquisition of 'learner autonomy'. This means your ability to acquire the language yourself, without needing a teacher's help. This is important because from next year you will not have an English teacher to help you. So we will consider and practise strategies to help you gain confidence in your own ability to increase your knowledge of and ability to use the language, including for instance guessing meaning of difficult words, deciding which words are important in a text, recognising differences between formal and informal language, and other strategies, so that as the first semester continues, you begin to feel more confident in your use and experience with the English Language.

Academic Skills Foundation

When you begin your undergraduate level studies, you will be expected to have knowledge of and ability to use a large range of 'study skills'. You will also be expected to have some knowledge of the subject area you will  be studying. This unit deals with both of these aspects of your preparation for undergraduate level study. 

All of the academic skills are practised in English, so you will use your developing acquisition of the language from the partner unit 'English Language Foundation' to practise and gain mastery of these skills. You will also use your language and study skills as you learn the foundation of your subject area, putting the skills into practice as you learn.

Developing English Language Skills

This unit builds on the progress you made during its partner semester 1 unit 'English Language Foundation' and increasing your level from that which you had achieved by the end of semester 1. 

We will recycle the tense system in English and other elements of the grammar system, but you will  now learn how to use other aspects of the grammar, including the passive voice, as well as linking words and phrases and devices which enable you to write longer sentences but retain grammatical accuracy. 

You will notice that we gradually introduce more specialist language that you need in preparation for your degree and we will expect you to use and develop the skills that you gained in the previous units so that you are able to work more independently.

Academic Skills Development

This unit builds on the skills learnt and practised in its partner semester 1 unit 'Foundation Academic Skills'. We will add more skills to the list, including summarizing and synthesising, argumentation, critical thinking and referencing and citation skills, as well as several others and practise and test them in the same way as with the semester 1 unit.

We will also investigate the research skill and you will learn how to prepare a research proposal and conduct a literature review, and how to plan a research project, learning about the research tools available and how they can be used to conduct research in your chosen field. 

You will continue to broaden your knowledge of key current issues and theory in your chosen subject area, and apply the critical thinking and argumentation skills you acquire in this unit to argue for and against propositions you have studied in the form of in both essays and presentations and in seminar situations, ensuring that you are ready to step up to your chosen undergraduate course with a base level of subject area knowledge from which to continue your academic development as you progress to level 4 study.