BA (Hons) International Business Management

This course aims to provide you with a realistic perspective on how to manage across borders. You will explore the contemporary concepts, debates, and practical challenges in sustainable global management. Through a selection of real-life projects, international virtual teamwork activities, and other innovative learning methods, you will learn about the difficulties and benefits of managing people, strategies, processes, and structures across cultures and languages. Your first year will introduce basic concepts and practices for the study of management and international business. During the second year, you will have the opportunity to deepen your understanding of international management by studying specialized modules.

Year 1

• Management in Context
• Global Business Environment
• Introduction to International Business

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Quantitative Methods I
• Introductory Microeconomics
• Advanced Business English Communication
• Business Law
• Accounting Principles
• Marketing Principles
• Academic English for Business Students (Part 1)
• Academic English for Business Students ( 2)
• The British and Global Economy
• Quantitative Methods II
• Introductory Macroeconomics
• Foundations of Human Resource Management
• Financial Accounting
• Multinational Enterprise Business Perspectives
• Managing in a changing society

Year 2

• Managing in the Multinational Corporation
• Operations and Quality Management
• International Supply Chain Management

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Employee Resourcing
• Organizational Behaviour
• Professional development
• Managing Human Resources
• Social Enterprise and Alternative Organising

Year 3

• Business Strategy
• Comparative Business Cultures
• Managing Diversity – ISP
• Managing International Projects

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Contemporary Issues in Management
• Marketing and Globalisation
• Enterprise Business Plan

Employability

You might choose to work in management consultancy, IT, banking, import/export, sales, marketing, or logistics, or to use your transferable skills to an indirectly related career of your choice. Equally, you might choose to go on to study for a postgraduate qualification.

Previous employers our graduates have gone on to work at:

• Connect Futures
• Dow Jones
• HSBC
• National Express Limited
• Santander
• Chambers of Commerce
• National Crime Agency
• Deutsche Bank