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Business and Management
Business and Management
Degree programmes
Business Management
NN12 BSc/BusMan (three years)
Programme description
The primary aim of the Business Management
programme is to develop your ability to make critical
analysis and evaluations relevant to management.
This is achieved by building an understanding of
the forces at work in business alongside knowledge
of management techniques.
Our emphasis on the interconnected nature of business
management and society often leads us to consider
questions that are not traditionally considered to be
within the remit of a business school, for example
critical and postmodern theories of organisations,
and social dynamics in societies. We believe that this
interconnected approach is central to the scholarship
and teaching that needs to take place in a modern
business school.
Our distinctive academic culture with its focus on interdisciplinary
links offers students a wide-ranging and
inspiring programme. You will graduate well prepared to
take up the challenge of addressing complex business
and management issues in your future work.
Programme outline
Year 1 Academic Skills • Accounting for Business •
Business and Society • Economics for Business •
Introduction to Marketing and Communications •
Markets and Society • Qualitative Research Methods
for Business • Work and Employment
Year 2 Options include: Business and Ethics • Business
Law • Coordination and Social Dynamics • Critical and
Post-Modern Theories of Organisations • Financial
Institutions • Governance and Business Strategy
• Human Resource Management • Managerial
Accounting • Managing Knowledge • Marketing
• Microeconomics for Managers • Occupational
Psychology • Operations Management • Organisation
Theory • Research Methodology • Strategy
Year 3 Options include: Business and Social Approaches
to Social Media – Opportunities and Issues • Consumer
Psychology • Corporate and Social Responsibility
• Employment Relations • Financial Management
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship • International
Business • Managing Diversity • Organisational
Change and Development • Organisation and Identity
• Social and Political Marketing • Social Networks
Please note, the modules listed above may be subject
to change.
Career opportunities
BSc Business Management
Business Management teaches a variety of highly
valued skills, which are applicable in a wide range
of organisations, both large and small. There are
excellent job prospects in industry, finance and
commerce, as well as in the public sector and
charities.
Recent graduates have found work as advertising
and marketing executives, brokers, business
analysts, investment / merchant bankers,
financial advisers, management consultants,
market research analysts, recruitment consultants
and stockbrokers. Employers include: Abbey,
Amazon.co.uk, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank,
Halifax Royal Bank of Scotland, Henderson Global
Investors, National Health Service, Santander and
Selfridges. (First Destinations Survey 2009)