BA (Hons) Business Management with Sandwich placement

Module: 5BU010

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The Business Intelligence & Digital Capability module provides an opportunity to analyse contemporary issues and challenges on the management and application of information systems and their impact on organisations. The learning content will expose students to analytical approaches in overcoming competitive challenges in a data driven global context through the concept of business intelligence. Activities will provide students with the opportunity to understand the crucial role of digital capability and apply relevant tools and methods across the enterprise. This module will further engage students towards developing a clear understanding of some these key issues and apply concepts and techniques discussed during the lectures and through independent academic research.

Module: 5IB004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The key to business success or failure is the quality of decision-making by the managers in a business organisation. This module considers how economic concepts can be used to examine managerial decision-making. You will see how managerial choices both affect and are affected by the market environment within which they work. In particular the module will emphasize the influence of market structure and the activities of competitors on the behaviour and performance of businesses. We will also investigate how economic concepts underpin decisions that relate to business functions such as marketing and HR.

Module: 5BE001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module identifies creativity as the foundation of enterprise learning and all enterprise activities. Creative thinking and applied creative behaviour is the first important step in all new undertakings, the module explores various interpretations and theories about creativity, providing you with creative skills that will be applied in practice. Innovation is at the heart of ensuring business success and long term prosperity. The module explores the linkages between creative processes and how these result in applications of innovation; how technology is widely used as a driver for innovation and how global economies and markets respond to innovation. Understanding the talents, techniques and temperament employed by entrepreneurs will be the foundation for understanding the process of creativity and innovation.

Module: 5HR002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aims of the module are four fold: 1. Within a theoretical framework to develop an understanding of and can explain the need to manage self before embarking on the management of others, and how, to identify and select tools to better manage self. 2. To gain an appreciation and understanding of theoretical constructs of managing and leading others. To explore, to explain and select which approaches should be used in the management of others. 3. To assess the impact of how individual perceptions, beliefs and also factors outside the managers control can impact upon the management of others and is able to explain how others respond to being managed or led. 4. Students will be able to identify the fundamentals of change in a business environment and apply tools of change management to case studies

Module: 5MK006

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to develop students understanding of Marketing planning and the importance to an organisation of a structured Marketing plan in which Marketing principles are put into practice. It will provide the student with an understanding of the complexities of a Marketing plan and steps taken in developing a plan for a range of business organisations. The module will develop students understandings of the processes and methods used in monitoring, implementing, and controlling a Marketing plan. The learning activities and assessment tasks offered throughout the module are designed to contribute to the development of employability skills.

Module: 5BU012

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module introduces students to the practical decisions involved in running businesses as part of contemporary supply chains. It focuses on 1) Understanding and managing processes within and across connected organisations; 2) Managing information and decisions in relation to processes and supply chains; and 3) Considering the impacts and complexity of modern supply chains on managerial decisions, including the flow of material, services, people and information. Students will investigate the management of resources, the supply chain, procurement, logistics, outsourcing and quality systems in a range of organisational contexts.

Module: 5BU005

Credits: 40

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module represents an opportunity for students to apply and develop, through work experience, the skills and knowledge they have gained on their course. This module involves a year long placement in a business related area, supported by a workplace mentor and UWBS Employability and Placement Unit (EPU). The year-long placement provides students with the opportunity to gain experience of graduate level work. In this way students can gain a second, world-recognised qualification with no extra work. Employers are very keen to employ graduates who have already had work experience as part of their course and this contributes to a student’s unique selling point.

Module: 6BU011

Credits: 20

Period: 4

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The Business Research Methods module is designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake research at undergraduate level. This module will support students in their development of a range of skills to facilitate independent research-based learning and the interpretation of research findings. There is a 36 hours of scheduled teaching in class with an additional 12 hours of asynchronous activity. It will provide a vehicle for the students to demonstrate a range of both intellectual and practical skills, which will prove vital for future career development. The students will produce a research proposal that assess all the learning outcomes.

Module: 6BU013

Credits: 20

Period: 4

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This final year module requires the completion of an original independent research project of 8000 words in length. We do of course recognise that there are times when students may need to exceed the word limit, depending on the nature and scope of their project. We aim to be as flexible as we can to assist all our students to reach their potential, so to aid you here we suggest, as a guide only, that 11,000 words would be a maximum (excluding appendices and references). This can be a traditional dissertation or a consultancy type project. It can be case study based and encompass both primary and secondary data sources. As long as it aligns with the remit of independent study there is much flexibility in the approach undertaken. The focus for this module is an independent project, which can be linked to a specific organisation or organisations for which the student has access (many students work whilst they study and this experience and access can be invaluable). Areas of investigation may take the form of a competitor analysis, an investigation of procedures, a customer satisfaction survey, the computerization of a system, a training needs analysis, the development of a policy statement, employment relations, etc. This list is by no means conclusive as there are many business related areas, which can be investigated. The principle aim however is independence in terms of research and analysis of a business related topic.

Module: 6HR005

Credits: 20

Period: 4

Type: Core ...