Business and Human Resource Management BA (Hons) with foundation year

This module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts in marketing, including digital and social media. Develop an understanding of the role of marketing within an organisation, and the influence of factors in the external environment on marketing decisions including ethics, social responsibility and sustainability. Also develop an understanding of key marketing theories, approaches and strategies related to areas such as buyer behaviour, segmentation, targeting and positioning, branding, digital and social media marketing.

Compulsory

This module aims to provide a holistic view of management and organisation theories and practices, exploring how people interact with each other in the workplace and the role that leaders and managers play in the organisation. Organisational culture, structure and type are examined to consider the impact they have on human behaviour, interactions and organisational outcomes. Examine the role of people management practices and how this affects individual behaviour in the workplace. By introducing concepts such as motivation, engagement and commitment, the module will explore how people work together as a team, and how leaders and managers can understand emotional and psychological responses to work.

Compulsory

Whether qualitative or quantitative, financial or non-financial, data is everywhere and plays a crucial role in informing decision-making. This module introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of business finance and data analytics, and how they can be applied to measure and analyse organisational and functional performance, and support decision-making. Data analytics is a skill set that is becoming increasingly important for finding actionable insights from data and guiding strategic business decisions. This module is designed to help deepen your analytical mindset, develop your understanding of financial information, and prepare you to use relevant financial management and data analytic tools, techniques, and methods to assist the decision-making process both in the short and long terms.

Compulsory

This module aims to enable you to engage critically with sustainability and entrepreneurship in the context of management theory and practice. Explore the relationships between organisations and societies and the impact of significant societal change on different types of organisations. Drawing on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examine how organisations respond by altering their practices through innovation and entrepreneurial activities. Ethical business practices and sustainability are further explored, requiring you to reflect on your approaches to ideation in creating social and organisational value.

Compulsory

This module aims to develop your understanding of how well-designed investigations and research work. Develop your understanding of the research process, including literature review, research methodology and methods, data collection and analysis. This module provides you with the foundation for future research activity and the ability to design research to meet specific research objectives. Develop insight and the ability to understand and critique investigations and research undertaken by others. You will also have the opportunity to evaluate how conclusions are reached and analyse the methods used to get to those conclusions.

Compulsory

This module will examine how analytics can help organisations to look forward in their decision-making, reducing errors and costs while increasing optimisation. HR analytics or predictive decision-making processes in human resources occur through the capture, storage, sharing, transfer and analysis of big data to study the trends of human resource management within organisations. It allows all strategic decisions on human resources, including recruitment, performance management, succession planning, training and talent management, to be viewed from a scientific and practical approach.

Compulsory

Gain an understanding of how performance management and reward strategies can interlink and drive sustained organisation performance, competitive advantage, employee engagement and employee well-being. The involvement and commitment of line managers in supporting a high-performance culture that promotes equality, diversity, inclusion, trust, enthusiasm and commitment will be explored. Look at how the business environment affects how a company manages performance and rewards its employees. This includes things like job market trends, changes in different industries and regions, differences in pay and how pay compares in other countries. You will consider a company’s financial situation, like its income, expenses, and how the cost of rewards (like salaries and bonuses) can affect a company’s finances. Equality implications of reward practices are examined, as well as international comparison of regulatory requirements (gender pay gap, ethnicity pay gap reporting).

Compulsory

A fundamental part of the human resource (HR) management role is concerned with the mobilisation of a workforce, taking responsibility for ensuring that the organisation can access the skills it needs at the time and in the places that it needs them to drive sustained organisation performance. This module introduces you to the key operational tools, techniques and practices that organisations use to resource their organisations effectively. These encompass employer branding, recruitment, selection, workforce, talent and succession planning, staff retention and their equality, diversity and inclusion implications. The module explores the way different organisations are managing these activities, and which are the most effective in the context of diverse and distributed locations across the globe.

Compulsory

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved placement undertaken during your programme. A placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved international study/work placement undertaken during your programme. A work/study placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

This module provides you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills to a real-world business issue. You may choose to undertake a research project, a consultancy-style investigation, or a management simulation. Through critical engagement with academic and industry literature, data analysis and reflective inquiry, develop evidence-based insights and propose realistic, practical recommendations. This module encourages independent thinking, problem-solving and analytical capabilities.

Compulsory

This module is designed to help you understand the key parts of employment law that are important for managing people fairly and responsibly in the workplace. Gain a critical understanding of the regulation by law of the management of workplace relationships and learn how to place the legal rules in their broader economic, socio-political and international context. This module will introduce you to the core legal principles, employment legislation and procedures that HR professionals need in practice, concentrating on the employment relationship from recruitment through to termination, including the impact of equality and discrimination laws on all aspects of the employment relationship.

Compulsory

Examine how and who regulates work at the organisational and societal levels. Human resource (HR) professionals need to understand key developments in the theory and practice of employment relations, both within and beyond their immediate organisational context. Build on your knowledge and experience to develop the skills required to make informed and effective judgements about existing and emerging models, processes and practices of employment relations in local and international jurisdictions. Critically assess broader political, social and economic developments that influence the effective management of the employment relationship and the implications for equality, diversity and inclusion.

Compulsory

The module critically examines how external factors such as technological, social and environmental developments are impacting organisational change. Explore the theories and frameworks underpinning organisational change to understand what change means, how it happens and how it is best managed. Organisational Development techniques and resistance to change in organisations will also be explored alongside ways in which organisations can develop a culture open to continuous improvement, innovation and change. The material covered draws heavily on real-world examples of change processes, encouraging you to apply the theory you have learned to these examples and discover alternative methods of reacting to situations.

Compulsory