Finance and economics are relevant in almost all business decision making. By understanding the practical application of these key principals, you'll put yourself in prime position to lead, influence and make key decisions across the business sector.
Your personal and professional development come first at LSBU. This module focuses on learning approaches and early career planning within undergraduate study, helping you to make informed decisions about how you learn best, managing your time and finances, and engage with university life as an independent learner. Through structured activities and guided reflection, you'll consider your strengths, development needs and aspirations, and learn through both individual and collaborative activities. The module is assessed through a digitally presented personal development portfolio, helping you articulate your goals, reflect on your learning, and communicate your development clearly using appropriate digital formats.
You've got the idea. But can you pitch? Visualise how it exists in the market? And perhaps most importantly, can you measure it's success and impact? This module will be your introduction to the fundamental topics in the marketing discipline, which can be developed further at Levels 5 and 6. These principles include the marketing environment, the marketing mix, marketing research, segmentation, targeting, positioning, buyer behaviour and marketplace ethics.
Learn to lead with honesty, empathy and impact. This module introduces students to the basic concepts of business management in organisations. It gives students an appreciation of the complexities of organisations that affect employee behaviour within them in a local and global context. It introduces them to key human resource management concepts. The module provides an introduction to management, organisational behaviour and people management theories and practices.
Analyse real business cases to better understand what organisations do, why they make certain strategic choices, and how these choices affect performance and operations. Through this module you will covers key tools and frameworks used to analyse industries, markets, and organisations, and shows how strategy is developed and applied at different levels, including global, corporate, business, and functional levels. You'll learn to connect strategy theories to real business situations, evaluate an organisation’s performance, and assess how strategies are implemented in practice. By the end of the module, you will be able to apply strategic thinking to real-world business problems and suggest practical strategic options.
This module equips students with essential quantitative skills for handling, analysing, and presenting numerical information in business contexts. Students will learn to interpret data, identify underlying patterns and narratives, and use evidence-based reasoning to justify and support business decisions. The module emphasises practical application using industry-standard tools such as Microsoft Excel, preparing students for the data-driven demands of modern workplaces.
