BA (Hons) Business and Management (Final Year Degree)

Learning Outcomes – Knowledge:

• Critically debate the importance of and approaches to strategic leadership in organisations
• Identify and articulate how strategic leaders can achieve stakeholder collaboration to support organisational success
• Analyse and evaluate their own leader identity in order to shape their CV and professional digital profile
• Produce a comprehensive leadership development plan to enhance career prospects

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• Exploring leader identity and leadership from a strategic perspective
• Reviewing and critiquing traditional and emerging leadership concepts, theories and models
• Impact of political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental influences on leadership
• Leadership for strategic change
• Analysing and using information management frameworks to support strategic leadership
• Developing collaborative leadership through coaching to engage others and support achievement of strategic organisational objectives
• Systems leadership for multi-disciplinary stakeholder collaboration

Learning Outcomes – Knowledge:

• Analyse and evaluate the key factors that impact business sustainability, resilience and growth
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of effective crisis management approaches
• Apply a range of analytical skills to understanding the complex inter-related functions of business

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• The challenges of managing knowledge
• Communication, learning and sense-making
• Creativity and innovation leadership
• Continual learning and the importance of strategic renewal
• Crisis management and business resilience
• Contingency planning
• Strategic decision-making

Learning Outcomes – Knowledge:

• Conduct an organisational change readiness analysis and use this to inform a set of recommendations and supporting change action plan
• Critically appraise and choose appropriate approaches and models related to organisational change
• Identify and critically discuss how leaders ensure change initiatives support ethical, sustainable and responsible business practice

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• Defining and understanding change and its importance in contemporary organisations
• Diagnosing the need for and drivers and triggers of change
• Creating readiness for organisational change
• Identifying and choosing appropriate approaches to and models for change
• The role of technology and innovation to support successful change
• Managing resistance and commitment to change
• Ethical, responsible and sustainable change
• Creating recommendations and supporting action plans for implementing change
• Becoming a change leader

Learning Outcomes – Knowledge:

• Appraise, evidence and apply the concepts and practices of management consulting within a range of sectors, organisations and job family roles
• Critique and defend the processes required for a consultant to meet a range of potential research settings
• Select and evaluate the tools and techniques required to source, critique and implement a range of potential viable and realistic solutions
• Debate and articulate the critical, methodical and creative problem-solving practices required to be an ethical and reflective internal or external consultant

Learning Outcomes – Skills:

• The role of a consultant and the importance of ethics and confidentiality
• The role and purpose of internal consultants
• Internal consultants as ‘researching professionals’
• Essential skills of a consultant to survive in a competitive global arena
• Physical verses virtual business consulting support services
• Scoping a business consultancy project for adoption
• Managing people and decision makers in a physical and virtual environment
• Commercial and academic research skills
• Client data utilization and business failure
• Bespoke and generic design of results
• Synthesis and presentation project recommendations for implementation including costs