Business Administration BBA (Hons)

The aim of this module is to enable you to engage critically and creatively with entrepreneurship in the context of responsible management practice. Following an introduction to the key concepts and debates of general entrepreneurial principles, you will actively explore social, economic, and environmental challenges.  

The aim of this module is to introduce you to the process of entrepreneurial ideation. Entrepreneurial ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas.

Through authentic and applied assessment, you will be invited to present your ideas to business and organizational leaders. 

This module introduces you to the essential building blocks of business and organisational management through a range of theories, concepts and approaches.

You can expect to explore the organisational structure, organisational design and business operations before learning about contexts which impact organisations, such as national culture, capitalism, demography and climate change. 

This module develops your knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts in marketing, including digital and social media. 

You should develop an understanding of the role of marketing within an organisation, and the influence of factors in the external environment on marketing decisions.  

This module introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of data analytics, and how they can be applied to assess and enhance organisational and functional performance and support decision-making. 

This module is designed to help you develop an analytical mindset, deepen your understanding, and prepare you to use innovative data analytic tools, techniques, and methods. 

This module explores how people interact with each other in the workplace and the impact that leaders and managers have upon that interaction. It examines the role of people management practices and how these affect individual behavior in the workplace.  

The aim of this module is for you to work collaboratively with organisations to develop innovative solutions to wicked problems. 

The curriculum will be enhanced with guest speaker sessions from entrepreneurs and key organisational leaders (where available). Through an applied critical evaluation of the academic literature on a contemporary challenge, students will provide a detailed and scholarly approach to thinking differently about current issues.  

This module is designed to develop your understanding of the concepts and tools commonly used in financial and management accounting.  

The module will introduce you to the financial statements that are regularly produced by business organizations, as well as to the tools that can be used to interpret these and evaluate financial performance. 

This is a research-driven module that offers you the opportunity to critically appraise the impact of globalisation on human resource management strategies.  

The aim of this module is to provide you with the opportunity to identify current or global challenges in the environment and present ideas to address those issues in a proactive manner. 

You can expect to develop an awareness and a critical understanding of key research methodologies within your chosen area of study and design a proposal for researching the relevant contemporary issues.  

This module aims to develop a strategic perspective of business, by taking an integrated view of the global environment in which business operates. You will look to understand the internal and external factors which influence strategic decisions. 

This module aims to develop in you, a strong foundation in Supply Chains Management (SCM) with a global outlook and prepare you for future study in this field. The module will provide an introduction to the management principles, processes and wider global environmental context within which contemporary supply chains operate. 

This module introduces the meaning, evolution, and impact of different disruptive technologies by exploring disruption theory, innovation strategy, and how these technologies can be applied to improve organisational performance, generate competitive advantage, and create business value.

This module aims to provide you with the opportunity to apply and develop your research skills and to extend your knowledge, understanding and ability to critically analyze a topic in a specialist area of interest. You will receive academic support through a series of group supervisions and will be allocated a project supervisor. 

This module aims to develop your skills and knowledge regarding the physical distribution channels used to deliver goods in both the industrial and retail contexts. This will include planning at the strategic level and analysis of the operational techniques available to the practitioner. By exploring contemporary practices in the logistics field, this module aims to equip you with real-world problem-solving capabilities.

Strategic entrepreneurship is the integration of entrepreneurship and strategic management. Both concepts, in different ways, focus on how organisations initiate or respond to change by exploring opportunities within the environment in which they operate.   

In this module, you will explore the strategic roles of creativity, opportunity identification and evaluation, and innovation in the emergence and growth of entrepreneurial organizations.   

This module focuses on project management in the business environment, enhancing your understanding and equipping you with both soft and technical skills, designed to help you understand the concept of project management, where projects come from, business case development and the selection process, with application to various contexts, harnessing the skills to lead and work on a variety of projects.   

The importance of project management scheduling skills, quality, estimating standards, as well as risks and stakeholders' management is emphasized within this module.