Business Management

From September 2023, this course will be taught at UA92’s brand new Business School in Manchester City Centre. Details of the exact campus location will be confirmed in due course.

A Business Management degree can be applied in a number of private, public and voluntary sectors such as retail, finance, health, FMCG, charity and construction. As a graduate, you will have the knowledge and skills to pursue a career in business development, marketing, human resources, management consultancy, project management, supply chain or investments.

Course Overview

This Business Management degree course will give you an understanding of the societal and technological drivers of change within a business environment, as well as the ethical and environmental implications. As a result, you will have the knowledge and skills to provide responsible leadership, harness innovation and manage performance. Plus, deliver value to organisations, consumers, investors and the communities in which you operate.

for their organisations, consumers and investors in a manner which benefits society.

Studying a combination of interdisciplinary business and management modules, gain a detailed understanding of the factors which influence business decisions and how organisations are structured and managed, from small enterprises to FTSE 100 companies.

Develop a broad understanding of the contemporary business environment and foster a practical understanding of the commercial opportunities and challenges facing businesses.

Manage risk and financial resources including how to assess, quantify and mitigate risks, as well as raise and manage finance for a sustainable financial future.

Understand the approaches used in analysing business data, including predictive analytics, regression analysis, time-series analysis, big data, and machine learning.

Explore the principal aspects of the marketing function, including issues of product design, distribution, pricing and promotion, with a focus on marketing in a digital environment.

Look at the core concepts in organisational behaviour and contemporary management theory in order to effectively manage human resources and change.

Level 4 subject-Specific modules:

Contemporary Business Environment
You will be introduced to the contemporary business environment and foster a practical understanding of the commercial opportunities and challenges facing businesses.

Managing Finance and Risk
An introduction to the core issues in managing risk and financial resources. Learn how to assess and quantify risks understand how tools such as risk registers are used by organisations to mitigate organisational risk.

Managing in the Digital World
You will delve into the core concepts in organisational behaviour and contemporary management theory.

Data and Decision Making
You will be introduced to a range of approaches used in analysing business data. This includes predictive analytics, regression analysis, time-series analysis, big data, and machine learning.

Level 5 subject-Specific modules:

Operations and Sustainability
Get an in-depth understanding of operations management across service and manufacturing organisations.

Marketing and Digitalisation
Get to grips with contemporary marketing management, understanding consumer and organisational purchasing behaviour. You will also explore the principal aspects of the marketing function, including issues of product design, distribution, pricing and promotion, with a focus on marketing in a digital environment.

Human Resource Management (HRM) and Leading People
Develop your people management skills by understanding the aspects of contemporary human resource management including recruitment, culture and managing change.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the nature and role of innovation in businesses. With a focus on understanding the ways in which businesses can foster an entrepreneurial and innovative culture to deliver value to consumers and society.

Level 6 subject-Specific modules:

Strategy and Ethical Leadership
You will explore how businesses develop their strategic positioning and implement strategic plans to deliver this.

Technology and Business Model Innovation
Explore how emergent technologies are driving fundamental change across multiple business sectors. Specifically, how digital technologies, ranging from AI to cryptocurrency, are disrupting sectors and generating innovative new business models.

Sustainable Financing
Analyse the two dimensions of finance and sustainability. Explore how businesses raise and manage finance in order to deliver a sustainable financial future and how long-term investments in sustainable infrastructure, such as renewable energy, carbon capture and waste recycling, can be financed.

Business Challenge
You will use your knowledge and skills to tackle a live case study from one of our business partners.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS