BA (Hons) Business Management

Course Description

If you are (or want to be!) a professional Administrator in business, government, service industries, education, a charity or any sector of industry, you should consider the specially designed IAM Certificate/Diploma/Advanced Diploma in Administrative Management. Advanced Diploma graduates can enter UK University BA (Hons) Business Management final year top up programme.

Benefits

Tudor College London offers this degree course via the Institute of Administrative Management (IAM). This qualification is designed to help you:
• Obtain a qualification that will help you find a job
• Do your existing job better
• Gain additional knowledge and understanding about your current role
• Apply your new skills at work
• Maximise your personal development and equip you for promotion
• Progress to the roles of supervising and training others

By choosing to follow this programme (recognised as a Level 3 qualification within the UK Government’s National Qualifications Framework), you are showing your potential to look at your own performance, find the best way to work with your colleagues and take responsibility for improving performance in the workplace around you.

This qualification is aimed at people with some experience of working in administration who want to develop their professional skills. So if you have twelve months work experience or more, you can go straight on to this qualification. This work-related qualification provides the link between being a basic practitioner and the next skills level: after this, you might want to become a supervisor, and then - if you decide to follow the IAM’s Diploma and Advanced Diploma - you can go on to become an Incorporated Administrative Manager.

Course Content/Modules

Certificate = Foundation
Unit 1: Inside Organisations
Unit 2: Working with People
Unit 3: Administrative Practice

Diploma = University First Year
Unit 1: People in Organisations
Unit 2: Administrative Systems and Processes
Unit 3: Professional Administration
Unit 4: Information for Decision Making
Unit 5: Case Study or Project Report

Advanced Diploma = University Second Year
Unit 1 Administrative Systems in the Organisation
Unit 2 Strategic Issues in Administration
Unit 3 Administrative Management of Resources
Unit 4 Human Resource Management and Practice
Unit 5 Case Study 2 or Project Report 2

UK University Degree Top Up
The degree programme has five elements - three compulsory modules, one optional module and a final dissertation:
Degree module one: Personal Effectiveness
Degree module two: Administrative management in Context
Degree module three: Strategic Management
Degree option - module four: Culture and Change Management
Degree option - module five: International Marketing
Dissertation: a major piece of independent work on a subject of the student’s own choosing

Assessment

Certificate: There are two parts to the assessment for this qualification:

1. Creation of a reflective learning diary related to the learning outcomes of each Unit that records evidence of skills for employment as well as academic achievements

2. Project Report of between 2000 and 2500 which must evidence application of learning from the programme syllabus and achievement of the overall Award learning outcomes

Diploma: The units are assessed by a three hour unseen written paper comprising two sections A and B. Section A has eight compulsory short answer questions designed to test candidates’ knowledge and understanding of concepts and terminology. Section B has a choice of two questions from four designed to assess the candidate’s appreciation of the unit. A question will be set from each of the area Learning Syllabus.
The project report is assessed through a 3,000 - 4,000 word report to a senior manager.

Advanced Diploma: The units are assessed by a 3 hour closed book examination. The paper comprises of a choice of 4 questions from 8, designed to assess the depth and breadth of candidates’ knowledge of the unit.

Degree Top Up: Students will submit one assignment per module for learning and feedback purposes and then sit an examination for each module – exams are held in June and December.
There is also a dissertation - the final submission will be 11,700 - 13,000 words.