Business & Management

Business & Management courses

Our qualifications are recognised by leading professional bodies and are suitable for students at all levels of career progression. Whether you are new to business and management or looking to take your career to the next level, our courses will develop you for future success.

Investing in your own future is the smartest business decision you’ll ever make – whether you have dreams of running a FTSE 500 business or are an entrepreneur wanting to get your own start-up off the ground.

We have strong relationships with professional bodies and our Business School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) – something fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide have achieved. This demonstrates our commitment to excellence in all areas, as well as a willingness to continuously monitor and evaluate what we do and how we do it. You will be learning from academics who are active practitioners. They share their expertise through our business consultancy services, aiding the profitability and market position of many of the organisations with which they have worked. The experience of our academics informs our portfolio of Master’s degrees to ensure they are relevant and equip our graduates with the skills needed to succeed in their careers.

My course gave me a whole new network of friends, who are now based all over the world. Overall, it taught me to believe in your dreams and follow them by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.

Ben Burkard, MSc Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship graduate and founder of ideenhunger, a German digital agency

Master of Business Administration MBA 68 MSc Management with Business Analytics 70 MSc Organisational Project Management 72 MSc Innovation Management

& Entrepreneurship

74 MSc International Management 76 MSc Management with Human Resources 78

Case study: Responsible projects

How a BU-led team is working to change how the world’s largest refugee camp is managed.

When the sun rises on Kutupalang in Bangladesh, it isn’t met with the laughter of children or the bustle of a working day stretching its legs. Instead, for most Kutupalang residents, it is met as a challenge - another day to survive, another hurdle to overcome. That’s because Kutupalang is the largest refugee camp in the world – home to a staggering 800,000 Rohingya people who have been displaced through persecution. They are subjected to alarming living conditions caused by the sheer overpopulation of a camp that is bursting at the seams - and the economic cost of managing that is astronomical.

Managing resources effectively

With over 80 different organisations responsible for delivering care and support to the residents of Kutupalang, it comes as little surprise to discover that there is often overlap, confusion, and a duplication of effort that means resources are not reaching as many people as they could and that they are causing environmental and societal damage in the process. Academics from BU are engaged in a pioneering study to change the way the camp’s many projects are managed - with the ultimate aim of providing a catalyst for change for long-term social and environmental benefits worldwide.

Wider stakeholder groups

The study at various stages involves working with over 200 different stakeholders who deliver services such as shelter, health services, education and logistics. They are developing a framework within which those projects can consider their impact on wider stakeholder groups through the involvement of local communities and humanitarian actors. The aim is to encourage project managers to take responsibility for creating awareness among their stakeholders of the long-term consequences of their activities and understand how that feed to local economy and environment. This involves balancing short-term goals of cost, time and quality with longer-term impacts on people and the planet.

Embedding sustainability

The ultimate aim is to embed sustainability into the agenda of project managers across the world, and to change the way that the refugee camp at Kutupalang and others like it can begin to mend fractured lives and rebuild hope.

Master of Business Administration

MBA

Key Information Duration & delivery:

1 year full-time, 2 years full-time with an optional 30-week placement

Start date: September

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £13,750 Overseas: £16,250

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent and at least two years' relevant full-time work experience. However applicants with other backgrounds may be invited to interview

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language:

IELTS (Academic) 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Bournemouth University International College:

Have you considered Pre-Sessional English or a Pre-Master’s to help meet your entry requirements? To find out more, visit

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ international-college

Accreditation:

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB); The Chartered Management Institute (CMI); Institute of Data & Marketing (IDM)

Why choose this course?

This course is delivered by the AACSB-accredited Bournemouth University Business School, an accreditation attained by fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide. It recognises our focus on continual excellence in all areas.

The Bournemouth MBA is designed to develop responsible leaders for organisations of the future. Through our innovative sprints and our core curricula, you have the opportunity to enhance your understanding of the business ecosystem, develop and improve your leadership skills all within a socially responsible framework. If you are looking to gain work experience in the UK, or are considering changing careers, you can take an optional 30-week work placement as part of the course.

Course overview

We work in an integrated, collaborative way, bringing together topics that are often taught in isolation at other universities to ensure you benefit from a holistic understanding of how organisations work.

We’re committed to helping businesses develop in a sustainable, inclusive and responsible way, and that’s embedded into what we teach and how we teach it. There’s a clear focus on your professional development, along with the chance to develop future networks that can benefit your business and your career. We always have one eye firmly on the future and have recently introduced a unit that specifically considers the future of work.

You will develop comprehensive knowledge and skills in business and management, and enhance your understanding of people, behaviour and attitudes, to become an effective, independent and credible leader. You will develop soft skills, such as emotional intelligence and team working, and adopt a responsible and inclusive leadership approach towards the creation of sustainable value for business and society.

Your leadership and managerial skills will be enhanced through industry speakers, case studies and consultancy work with real business clients. There are also opportunities to attend professional meetings and conferences to work with staff on their research and in some cases to publish together as well.

Leading & Managing Change in Socially

Responsible Organisations: Leaders and managers are increasingly subject to greater levels of complexity and ambiguity within a global business context. The unit will explore a range of contemporary CSR issues and management challenges faced by organisations, both internally and through external influences, in increasingly complex, global, diverse and fast-changing stakeholder environments.

Developing Sustainable Strategies: This unit will consider the key concepts, methods and thinking used to develop and deliver effective business and marketing strategies that consider both profitability and responsible business practice. The understanding, techniques and skills required to analyse and evaluate accounting and financial data and their links to organisational strategy will be critically examined.

Managing Organisational & Individual

Performance: This unit will equip you with the methods, techniques and skills to critically evaluate performance management practice and relevant performance metrics. It will develop your understanding of business intelligence and business analytics, and your ability to derive insights from a pool of data to inform effective decision-making. Shaping the Future of Work: The workplace is currently experiencing unprecedented change via influences such as digitalisation, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics, alongside demographic changes and the emergence of new ways of working. Combined with the recognition that talent shortages are likely to be the new norm, these changes are also leading to a renewed interest in intrinsically human skills such as emotional intelligence. This unit will examine a variety of contemporary trends/issues disrupting and shaping our workplace and evaluate the potential opportunities and challenges that organisations and their workforce may face in the future.

Project: An opportunity to undertake a significant piece of self-managed research in an area that interests you. The project will stimulate independent learning and idea generation, critical thinking and reflection, allowing you to demonstrate the application of inter-disciplinary knowledge, analytical and evaluative skills, and audience-tailored communication skills. This could take the form of a consultancy project or a research project.

Option units (choose one)

Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Design Projects in Society Global Innovation Management International Taxation SME & Entrepreneurial Finance Digital Marketing

Optional work placement

An exciting and valuable part of this course is the opportunity to do a minimum 30week industry placement. The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and to improve your employability. It should enable you to combine and extend the professional competencies you have developed during the first two semesters of study.

The MBA gave me a lot of practical knowledge that can be applied within many different sectors. Thanks to the inspiring and engaging staff of BU, I was able to determine my future career path.

Gosia Beratz, student

MSc

Management with Business Analytics

Key Information Duration & delivery:

1 year full-time (September start), 16 months full-time (January start), 2 years full-time with optional 30-week placement

Start date:

September, January

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,500 Overseas: £16,000

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language:

IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Bournemouth University International College:

Have you considered Pre-Sessional English or a Pre-Master’s to help meet your entry requirements? To find out more, visit

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ international-college

Accreditation:

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

Why choose this course?

This course is delivered by Bournemouth University Business School, which has AACSB accreditation in recognition of our focus on excellence in all areas. It’s something that fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide have achieved, so you can be sure you’re in good hands.

There is a growing demand for managers who are able to analyse and interpret data to make informed decisions that will improve the performance of their business – identifying organisational problems and emerging market trends quickly and reacting to them to maximise profits and efficiency. This course will help you become exactly the kind of graduate that organisations are looking for.

Course overview

Your understanding of analytics will be complemented by developing broader management skills in areas such as human resources, marketing, strategy, accounting, financial management and leadership skills – all within a global context.

When you graduate, you’ll be perfectly placed to identify management needs and translate them into practical action to improve a business. Your strong background in management combined with knowledge about business analytics and big data analysis will enable you to improve managerial decisions using the latest advancements in business analytics. You will understand the technical possibilities and constraints of big data analysis that lie in wait for you. You’ll be able to design useful performance metrics, using recent developments in statistics and business analytics, and interpret their findings to manage and grow successful businesses.

Although this is a conversion course, it is best suited to those with an analytical mind. The course introduces data analytics using analytics software. Hence, students will learn basic programming and statistics, but we do not require prior knowledge. There’s also an option to undertake a 30-week work placement as part of the course, which may particularly appeal if you are changing disciplines or career focus.

I was always keen on analysis and the scope it has in a business. This interest is what I used to motivate myself through the whole course. It was taught in a very simple manner and the programme leader and all the faculty were very helpful throughout.

Neeher Mathews, graduate

Data-Driven Management: The unit aims to equip you with the skills to use analytics software to understand, evaluate, design, and challenge the principles, and practices for data-driven decision making in management.

Leadership Essentials: The unit aims to provide a critical understanding of leadership theory and practice through developing your personal leadership skills. You will develop greater self-awareness through reflexivity and working with teams, combined with a theoretical understanding including emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing.

Marketing & Strategy: You will explore and analyse the premise that in order to be successful, organisations need to gain a good understanding of their customers’ requirements and to seek to achieve organisational objectives through the satisfaction of their customers’ needs and wants.

Accounting & Financial Management: You will develop the techniques and skills that are required to analyse and evaluate accounting and other forms of financial data for the purposes of performance evaluation, decisionmaking and risk analysis.

Statistics and Data Modelling: You will be equipped with the skills to understand statistical processes and techniques for the collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data common in business and finance. You will be able to interpret and communicate quantitative results and show how quantitative methods may be used to provide reliable management information.

Business Intelligence: You will learn the techniques and skills to understand, evaluate and interpret business and performance metrics and tools, in order to improve individual and organisational performance, and use this to inform and update organisational policies and procedures.

Research Project: An opportunity to undertake a significant piece of self-managed research in an area that interests you.

Optional work placement

An exciting and valuable part of your studies with us is the opportunity to do a minimum 30-week industry placement. The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and to improve your employability. It should enable you to consolidate and extend the professional competencies you have developed during the first two semesters of study.

MSc

Organisational Project Management

Key Information Duration & delivery:

1 year full-time (September start), 16 months full-time (January start), 2 years full-time with optional 30-week placement

Start date:

September, January

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,500 Overseas: £16,000

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language:

IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Bournemouth University International College:

Have you considered Pre-Sessional English or a Pre-Master’s to help meet your entry requirements? To find out more, visit

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ international-college

Accreditation:

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

Why choose this course?

Project management is one of the fastest growing professions around the world. Projects are how infrastructure is built, products developed and change introduced, across all sectors of business and society. Project management is relevant whatever your background. This course is suitable to managers from all types of industry, governments, non-governmental organisations and the voluntary sector, who wish to improve their ability to design, plan and implement change through projects, programmes and portfolios.

The course is delivered by Bournemouth University Business School, which is accredited by AACSB – recognition that has been awarded to fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide.

Course overview

As a project manager, you are responsible for strategically managing teams that deliver projects, programmes and portfolios. This course will develop your critical awareness of project management approaches and change management in a global business environment, as well as within wider society. It is a conversion course that will enable you to change subject or career direction.

You will also develop your personal leadership skills in order to be a successful and responsible manager. The core units will encourage you to participate in contemporary management debates whilst gaining a wider understanding of management functions and how they are related to each other and society.

Your learning environment will include workshops and lectures supported by digital technology and online material. There will be a mix of teamwork and individual study encouraging you to become an independent learner through research and project work. You will have the option to complete a research project or a consultancy project.

With an optional 30-week work placement as part of the course and an expert teaching team to support you, you’ll be well prepared for work when you graduate.

Project Management in Practice: This unit aims to develop a critical awareness of project management knowledge, context, tools, techniques and boundaries together with an understanding of the role and responsibilities of different stakeholders.

Projects in Society: Projects can be seen as being at the heart of the global economy, communities and wider society. They introduce change and have consequences that can be both positive and negative. We will explore the challenges, controversies, opportunities and debates around managing projects in a global context.

Project Management & Change: This unit focusses on project management and you will explore the theories and practices associated with research methods and change management, as appropriate to a variety of business, social and technical environments to ensure success and sustainability of project change programmes in business and society. Accounting & Financial Management: You will develop the techniques and skills that are required to analyse and evaluate accounting and other forms of financial data for the purposes of performance evaluation, decisionmaking and risk analysis.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Design: An effective entrepreneurial, innovative, and design thinking mindset will be developed during this unit. The implementation of design management principles, innovative culture and governance will be explored in a variety of business contexts. The unit will explore the nature of entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, attributes, competences, and behaviours.

Leadership Essentials: This unit aims to provide a critical understanding of leadership theory and practice through developing your personal leadership skills. You will develop greater self-awareness through reflexivity and working with teams, combined with a theoretical understanding including emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing.

Option units (choose one)

Consultancy Project: The aim of this unit is to develop a critical awareness of project management knowledge, context and boundaries together with an understanding of the role and responsibilities of different stakeholders. Research Project: An opportunity to undertake a significant piece of self-managed research in an area that interests you.

Optional work placement

An exciting and valuable part of your studies with us is the opportunity to do a minimum 30-week industry placement. The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and to improve your employability. It should enable you to strengthen and extend the professional competencies you have developed during the first two semesters of study.

We were exposed to the practical aspect of project management. I learnt how to manage a project from the conception phase to the closing stage, all thanks to our tutor, who made learning enjoyable.

Dorcas Ogbe, student

MSc

Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship

Key Information Duration & delivery:

1 year full-time (September start), 16 months full-time (January start), 2 years full-time with optional 30-week placement

Start date:

September, January

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,500 Overseas: £16,000

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language:

IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Bournemouth University International College:

Have you considered Pre-Sessional English or a Pre-Master’s to help meet your entry requirements? To find out more, visit

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ international-college

Accreditation:

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

Why choose this course?

This course is delivered by the AACSB-accredited Bournemouth University Business School, an accreditation attained by fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide. It recognises our focus on excellence in all areas.

The Bournemouth University Business School holds the Small Business Charter Award. The award gives recognition to business schools that play an effective role in supporting small businesses, local economies and student entrepreneurship.

Course overview

The course will develop you into a lateral thinker capable of seeing things differently to those around you. With that skillset, you’ll be in a great position to take exciting new ideas to market, and create successful businesses around them.

To help you get there, you’ll gain insights into, and practical experience of, the issues facing new business ventures as well as ways of breathing new life into established businesses by fostering creativity, design and new ways of thinking. You’ll build theoretical knowledge alongside the core business skills you need to start new enterprises and transform existing ones through innovations in product, process or business models.

You’ll take your knowledge and understanding to new levels as the course highlights the networks and relationships needed for collaborative work in increasingly international markets for goods and services. You’ll be able to execute a major practical exercise to help launch your new career.

You’ll also have the chance to spend some time on a work placement, helping you to prepare for your future career.

Our expert academic team will guide your studies and help you develop a global perspective of the business world. We work closely with employers and professional bodies to ensure you have appropriate and relevant study opportunities for your personal and professional development.

This is a brilliant course for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs. The units cover all the key areas around growing and developing your business idea and helps you to focus on the future innovative elements. The tutors are truly inspiring and display a range of business and academic backgrounds.

Lucy Murphy-Ackroyd, student

Leadership Essentials: The unit aims to provide a critical understanding of leadership theory and practice through developing your personal leadership skills. You will develop greater self-awareness through reflexivity and working with teams, combined with a theoretical understanding including emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing.

Business Model Innovation: Business models are central to the sustainable development of new, entrepreneurial businesses, and especially those with innovative products and processes, creativity and design. You’ll learn to select the tools and techniques to create robust business models.

Accounting & Financial Management: You will develop the techniques and skills that are required to analyse and evaluate accounting and other forms of financial data for the purposes of performance evaluation, decision-making and risk analysis.

Selling, Relationships & Customer Service:

Establishing and nurturing relationships with suppliers, customers and other forms of business partners is critical to the success of any business. You will learn to develop appropriate ways to build sustainable relationships.

SMEs & Entrepreneurial Finance: This unit explores various theories of finance while drawing on practical knowledge of government grants, business angels, venture capitals (VCs), private equity, investment banks and other financing types for earlystage businesses.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Design: You will develop an effective entrepreneurial, innovative, and design thinking mindset. The implementation of design management principles, innovative culture and governance will be explored in a variety of business contexts. The unit will explore the nature of entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, attributes, competences, and behaviours.

Project - Entrepreneurship in Practice or

Innovation in Practice: You will develop and demonstrate your innovation and entrepreneurial skills through real-life projects focusing on a problem or opportunity.

Optional work placement

An exciting and valuable part of your studies with us is the opportunity to do a minimum 30-week industry placement. The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and to improve your employability. It should enable you to consolidate and extend the professional competencies you have developed during the first two semesters of study. You should consider how a range of management theories can be used, and if management in industry could be improved. The transferable skills developed will improve your performance in your future career, both as an employee and a manager.

MSc

International Management

Key Information Duration & delivery:

1 year full-time (September start), 16 months full-time (January start), 2 years full-time with optional 30-week placement

Start date:

September, January

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,500 Overseas: £16,000

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language:

IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Bournemouth University International College:

Have you considered Pre-Sessional English or a Pre-Master’s to help meet your entry requirements? To find out more, visit

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ international-college

Accreditation:

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

Why choose this course?

This course is delivered by the AACSB-accredited Bournemouth University Business School, an accreditation attained by fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide. It recognises our focus on excellence in all areas.

Be it people, strategy, networks or markets, they all require expert management. But the difference between strong and poor management can mean the difference between success and failure for an organisation.

This course will empower you with the business skills and acumen to help you become a dynamic leader prepared for the challenges of global business.

Course overview

Business is a broad and fascinating subject with many different areas to specialise in. As well as developing your management and leadership skills, you will understand the global context in which organisations operate, explore the nature of global markets and the strategic management and marketing-related aspects of business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships.

The combination of truly contemporary, specialist units, and our internationally rich culture provides a global perspective on management in practice across the globe.

You will also have the option to complete a 30-week work placement. This will enhance your CV as well as encouraging you to develop personally and professionally. You’ll take the placement after you have completed the first two semesters, meaning that you’ll be able to apply what you have learned to the workplace before returning to your studies with an enhanced ability to place your learning into a professional context.

This course expanded my scope of learning through various units. I was able to acquire a global perspective and diverse analysis techniques in the business. Lecturers are passionate and very considerate of their students; I had a pleasant life at BU!

Jihwan Choi, student

Leadership Essentials: The unit aims to provide a critical understanding of leadership theory and practice through developing your personal leadership skills. You will develop greater self-awareness through reflexivity and working with teams, combined with a theoretical understanding including emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing.

Managing People: You will develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of the theories and practices of organisational behaviour, especially in the area of people management, and how this can effectively contribute to positive organisational outcomes.

Global Innovation Management: This unit explores and evaluates the theoretical and practical perspectives of innovation management, as well as the managerial issues facing organisations in the global environment.

Global Strategic Management: You will explore the nature of global markets and the managerial and organisational competences required for operating in them, from the perspective of global strategic management. Supply Chains, Networks & Markets: This unit examines the critical challenges, tasks and approaches associated with the management of inter-organisational relationships. You will explore both strategic management and marketing-related aspects of business-to-business and businessto-consumer relationships.

Marketing & Strategy: You will explore and analyse the premise that in order to be successful, organisations need to gain a good understanding of their customers’ requirements and to seek to achieve organisational objectives through the satisfaction of their customers’ needs and wants.

Research Project: An opportunity to undertake a significant piece of self-managed research in an area that interests you.

Optional work placement

An exciting and valuable part of your studies with us is the opportunity to do a minimum 30-week industry placement. The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and to improve your employability. It should enable you to consolidate and extend the professional competencies you have developed during the first two semesters of study.

MSc

Management with Human Resources

Key Information Duration & delivery:

1 year full-time (September start), 16 months full-time (January start), 2 years full-time with optional 30-week placement

Start date:

September, January

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,500 Overseas: £16,000

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language:

IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Bournemouth University International College:

Have you considered Pre-Sessional English or a Pre-Master’s to help meet your entry requirements? To find out more, visit

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ international-college

Accreditation:

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

Why choose this course?

This course is delivered by the AACSB-accredited Bournemouth University Business School, an accreditation attained by fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide. It recognises our focus on excellence in all areas.

Course overview

The course has a global focus with specialist units exploring issues including managing people across different cultures, organisational and employment related issues and the development of people as a resource. These are complemented by core management units which concentrate on developing your leadership skills, the management of people, marketing and strategy, as well as contemporary issues in the business world.

During this course you’ll acquire the skills and acumen needed to plan and manage HR strategies within the public and private sectors. You’ll develop an ideal blend of specialist human resource and generalist management expertise in order to stand out in the highly competitive HR career market.

You will also have the option to complete a 30-week work placement. This will enhance your CV as well as encouraging you to develop personally and professionally. You’ll take the placement after you have completed the first two semesters, meaning that you’ll be able to apply what you have learned to the workplace before returning to your studies with an enhanced ability to place your learning into a professional context.

We work closely with employers and professional bodies to ensure you develop the skills you need to succeed in the workplace. Our expert teaching teams will support your studies and, as this is a conversion course, can provide guidance about changing the direction of your career.

Without the course, I would not have realised the potential of my career path and would not have been able to secure my graduate role as a Human Resources Analyst. I greatly appreciate what the course has offered to me.

Leon Couchman, graduate

International Human Resource Management:

This unit focuses on the key skills required to manage people across different national cultures and institutional environments.

Organisation & Employment Studies: You will develop the critical thinking skills needed to analyse key organisational problems and employment relations issues from a range of different perspectives.

People Resourcing & Development: This unit looks at the theory and practice of people resourcing and development (PR&D), and how this can effectively contribute to the achievement of corporate strategic goals. The role of the HR professional in facilitating the relationship between PR&D and organisational effectiveness will be critically examined.

Managing People: You will develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of the theories and practices of organisational behaviour, especially in the area of people management, and how this can effectively contribute to positive organisational outcomes.

Marketing & Strategy: You will explore and analyse the premise that in order to be successful, organisations need to gain a good understanding of their customers’ requirements and to seek to achieve organisational objectives through the satisfaction of their customers’ needs and wants.

Leadership Essentials: The unit aims to provide a critical understanding of leadership theory and practice through developing your personal leadership skills. You will develop greater self-awareness through reflexivity and working with teams, combined with a theoretical understanding including emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing.

Research Project: An opportunity to undertake a significant piece of self-managed research in an area that interests you.

Optional work placement

An exciting and valuable part of your studies with us is the opportunity to do a minimum 30-week industry placement. The placement is intended to foster personal and professional development and to improve your employability. It should enable you to consolidate and extend the professional competencies you have developed during the first two semesters of study.