B.Sc. Business Management (Human Resource Management) (Hons)

Course Content Programme Structure Year 1 (FHEQ Level 4)

The programme starts with a common first year across all Business Management pathways. This will allow students to make an informed decision about either confirming the pathway chosen on entry or switching to an alternative.

Compulsory modules

• Business Skills
• Operations Management
• Economics for Business
• Financial Accounting
• Marketing Principles
• Organisational Behaviour and Analysis
• Business Ethics
• Business Decision-Making

YEAR 2 (FHEQ LEVEL 5)Students take a number of compulsory modules, an equal number of pathway modules and two optional modules. Any students leaving with a subsidiary award at either FHEQ Level 4 or 5 would not include the pathway in the title.Compulsory modules

• Human Resource Management
• Business Finance
• Sociology of Work
• Management Accounting
• Business/Organisational Psychology
• Employee Relations

Optional modules (two of the following)

• Marketing Communications
• International Business Management
• Information Systems
• Introduction to Management Science
• Consumer Behaviour
• Business Law
• Comparative Country Studies
• International Fashion Marketing
• Issues in International Business
• Entrepreneurship in the Digital Domain

Professional Training placementsAt Surrey Business School, our close links with national and international businesses of all sizes and across all sectors are reflected in the companies for which our students have worked on their placements, including:

• 3M
• Ernst & Young
• HP
• Microsoft
• L’Oréal
• Sony
• LK Bennett
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Xerox

Your Professional Training placement, if selected, would be taken within your chosen pathway.

Year 3 (FHEQ Level 6)If students exit at the end of FHEQ Level 6 they will have 360 credits, of which 90 credits will be designated pathway modules.Compulsory modules

• International Business Strategy
• Entrepreneurship and Business
• Planning Leadership
• Project Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Managerial Decision Making
• Advanced Human Resource Management

Optional modules (one of the following):

• Research in Marketing
• The Role of Trust in International Business Relations
• Ethics, Responsibility and Citizenship
• Managing People Across Cultures
• Employment Law

Year 4 (FHEQ Level 7)

This year is only for students on the MBus. Students do two compulsory modules, two pathway modules, an applied research project in their chosen pathway and one optional module.

Students exiting at the end of FHEQ Level 7 will have achieved 480 credits of which 195 will be in the designated pathway. To maintain their place on the MBus programme students must achieve a minimum of 60 per cent at each level of the programme.

Students registering on the BSc programme will be allowed to transfer to the MBus programme if they achieve this level.

Compulsory modules

• Research Methods
• Applied Research Methods