BA (Hons) Business Management with Human Resources

BA (Hons) Business Management with Human Resources

During your degree, you’ll get to grips with the knowledge and understanding of the theory and applications of financial management, and gain numerical, analytical, computing and report-writing skills. This course covers accounting fundamentals, financial management function, the financial environment, financial markets, raising and managing resources, financial risk and valuation.

Modules

Year 1

  • Concepts of Management
  • Principles of marketing
  • Accounting and Finance for Managers
  • People and organizations
  • Business economics
  • Management and information systems

 

Year 2

Core modules:

  • Managing the principles of e-business
  • Managing business and innovation
  • Managing business logistics and negotiations
  • Business ethics today: social and legal foundations
  • Human resource management

 

Optional modules:

  • Business contracts
  • Diagnostic analytics
  • Emerging markets, and the Asia-pacific business environment
  • Entrepreneurial mindset – business discovery and development
  • Environmental economics and sustainability
  • Financial accounting and analysis
  • Fundamentals of finance
  • Fundamentals of project management
  • Marketing research
  • Retail operations
  • Social media in a business context
  • A foreign language and applied research report
  • Creative and media planning
  • The customer experience manager
  • Luxury!
  • The media relations manager

Year 3

  • Strategic management and leadership
  • Leading and managing SMEs
  • Resourcing and Reward
  • Aspects of UK Employment Law

 

Plus two options from:

  • Management accounting for decision making
  • Practical analytics
  • Mobile applications – from idea to mass adoption
  • Entrepreneurial finance
  • Individual and organisational learning and development
  • Legal protection of business creativity
  • Brand management
  • PRINCE2® – methodologies for project management
  • Retail boutique and shopper behaviour
  • Business research methods
  • Professional placement module

Modules are assessed by a mix of coursework assignments, presentations, and exams.

 

Employability

You’ll be prepared when you graduate for a career in business, management, and HR. All the way through the course, employability skills are promoted – with guest speakers from industry, business insights, graduate start-up, and entrepreneur schemes. Graduates have gone onto jobs such as:

  • Administration Assistant at NHS
  • Talent Intelligence Manager at Talent Intelligence
  • CEO at BoxUp Crime
  • HR Advisor at UK National Audit Office
  • Operations and Administration at The Rose Theatre
  • Assistant Events Officer at Birkbeck, University of London
  • Customer Service at Santander UK Corporate & Commercial
  • Administration Assistant at Mars Capital
  • National Manager at Elevation Networks
  • Business Controller at L’Oréal Luxe Travel Retail Monde
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