BA (Hons) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (HRM PATHWAY)

Overview

Mode	Duration	Start date	Application code	Application method
ModeFull-time	Duration3 years	Start dateSeptember	Application codeN238	Application method UCAS
ModeFull-time (with placement)	Duration4 years	Start dateSeptember	Application codeN238	Application method UCAS
ModeFull-time	Duration3 years	Start dateJanuary	Application codeN238	Application method UCAS
ModeFull-time (with placement)	Duration4 years	Start dateJanuary	Application codeN238	Application method UCAS

International students

The course is not currently open to international students.

International (non Home) applicants should follow our international how to apply guide.

Home/EU applicants

Mode	Duration	Start date	Application code	Application method
Mode Full-time	Duration 3 years	Start date September	Application code N238	Application method UCAS
Mode Full-time (with placement)	Duration 4 years	Start date September	Application code N238	Application method UCAS
Mode Full-time	Duration 3 years	Start date January	Application code N238	Application method UCAS
Mode Full-time (with placement)	Duration 4 years	Start date January	Application code N238	Application method UCAS

Accommodation

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Finance

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Prepare to start

Applicant events

After you’ve received your offer we’ll send you emails about events we run to help you prepare for your course.

Welcome Week

Before you start your course we’ll send you information on what you’ll need to do before you arrive and during your first few days on campus. You can read about the process on our Welcome Week pages.

Year 1

• Finance and the Economy This module introduces you to a range of economic and financial topics and shows how these can be applied to understand the world around us. The module develops your understanding of the external environment businesses face, and aspects of finance relevant to the business context.
• Principles of Marketing The module introduces you to the theories and practices of marketing, and provides you with a foundation in the subject of marketing. It acts as an introduction to the fundamental topics in the marketing discipline, these principles include the marketing environment, the marketing mix, marketing research, buyer behaviour and marketplace ethics.
• The LSBU Discovery Project In this module you will be utilising business project frameworks, problem solving skills and ideas generation techniques that will support you through the key stages required to complete a business small business project from concept to delivery. Throughout the stages of your project, and by incorporating a facilitated coaching process, you will be supported to develop key skills vital to successful leadership and management.
• Data for Decision Making The module examines a range of ways of handling, analysing and presenting quantitative information.  The underlying theme is to look at data in a variety of forms, to determine the ‘story’ that this data is telling, and to use that ‘story’ to justify decisions.
• Management and Organisations This module introduces you to the basic concepts of management in organisations. It gives you an appreciation of the complexities of organisations that affect employee behaviour within them. It introduces you to human resource management strategies to manage people in organisations. The module incorporates key management, organisational behaviour and people management theories and practices.
• Principles of Strategy This module introduces you to the basics of strategy in an international context. Strategic thinking and the ability to apply strategic evaluation models are important skills for organisational growth. You will be exposed to different elements of strategic analysis, decision-making and aspects of strategy implementation in business.

Year 2

• The Business Professional
  This module provides comprehensive insights into graduate employability and career development for Business Management students. It teaches you essential techniques of self-awareness building, career exploration, job search, succeeding in recruitment and selection processes and teamwork, enabling you to secure employment and thrive in the world of work. In addition, the module covers specific skills of particular relevance to Business graduates, esp. digital, research and communication skills that are valued and highly sought after by relevant employers. The module is taught as a mix of lectures, practitioner guest lectures and hands-on skills seminars. The portfolio assignment consists of two reflective pieces, encouraging you to embark on your own exploration and learning journey, relating the content covered in this module to their own individual careers.
• Effective Business Negotiations
  Negotiation is a core business skill integral to some degree in the vast majority of commercial and even non-commercial business activities. Successful negotiation is a process that involves a number of essential soft skills including effective questioning, effective listening, critical thinking and empathy. In addition, planning, situational analysis and the ability to recognise and evaluate the shared, differing and conflicting interests of the parties involved is key. A vital and integral component of your learning journey in developing your negotiation practice, is the opportunity to apply your learning, in a safe environment, through a series of guided interactive and applied workshops.
• Human Resource Management
  The module will give you a thorough understanding of how human resource management works in an organisation from both a practical and theoretical approach.  
• Responsible Business
  The corporate responsibility agenda of the 90s was about ticking boxes. Now, companies are more progressive with a shift in focus towards social value, and understanding that responsibility is a commercial imperative, embedded in strategy to provide a competitive advantage. This module outlines some of the resources and strategies adapted from management and leadership across industries. With a focus on sustainable development the module introduces you to sustainability narratives and challenges stemming from the scarcity of resources, and the inherent concerns from the complexity of the leadership issues involved towards an adaptive and assimilated sustainability planning.
• Learning and Talent Development
  Learning and Talent Development is an essential part of an organisation’s strategy to ensure staff have the appropriate knowledge and skills for their roles. You will learn the importance of identifying, designing, delivering and evaluating learning interventions.  You will learn the practical skills involved in delivering learning and development sessions and will reflect on your own practice leading to identification of further continuous professional development (CPD).
• Digital Transformation
  This module introduces you to the basic theory, concepts, and techniques of digital business transformation. It focuses on developing the thought processes and practical skills needed to identify, analyse, evaluate and apply digital technologies in order to address real-world business problems. In addition, this module will enable you to explore the multifaceted nature of digital transformed business, its models, infrastructure, context, and strategies, developing an awareness and appreciation of the key issues that business practitioners need to grapple with in the 21st century.

Year 3

• Resourcing and Reward
  This module investigates and analyses current practice and developments in employment resourcing with full regard to context. It addresses the breadth of resourcing issues and includes all the activities essential for the acquisition, management and retention of people through to the termination of employment. It also considers how reward plays an important part in resourcing strategies and you will learn about decision making in reward and how to put this into practice.
• Leadership, Strategy and Change
  This module examines the scope and nature of leadership, strategic management and change and approaches to establishing organisational objectives. It demonstrates the link between strategy, resources, markets, innovation, technology and finances available. The impact of the size and structure of organisations as well as external factors impacting strategy including globalization and sustainability are also considered.
• Comparative International Management
  In an ever broadening set of interdependent relationships among countries, the need to recognise the opportunities and restrictions presented by different world markets has gained significance. This module is designed to impart you with the analytical skills to assess the socio-economic differences between countries, and to identify how these differences impact business and management behaviour across countries through comparative studies. It is based on the rationale that your understanding as a manager will be expected to analyse and compare market and business environments in different countries to attain business success. The module develops your understanding of business practice in different regions and acquaints you to apply analytical management tools and qualitative research methodologies to critically evaluate and gain an understanding of comparative international management practices.
• Aspects of UK Employment Law
  An introduction into the key areas of employment law focusing on the impact that this has on HR practice including contract, equality, working time regulations, health and safety and dismissal. This covers current UK and EU regulations. This module has been mapped to the CIPD Intermediate Certificate and would form part of the requirement needed to achieve the additional qualification along with Associate Membership of the CIPD on successful completion of the degree.

Choose one of the following:

• Research Project
  This final year module allows students to consolidate their learning over the whole of their degree by undertaking an independent small-scale research project, with a business or management focus.
• Applied Project
  This final year module allows students returning from their undergraduate placement year to consolidate their learning on their degree and industrial experience by undertaking an applied project. The Applied Project is only available to students on a four-year sandwich degree and can be drawn from any applied area of business and management within the workplace.