Course overview
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Having a degree in management is useful if you want to become, or be recognised for being a professional manager – taking responsibility for projects, people, operations and/or services to deliver long-term organisational success.
BA (Hons) Management Practice is a part-time, work-based qualification designed around the needs of you and your employer.
As a student you will be in either paid or unpaid employment and apply your learning to your organisation, thus supporting and adding value to the organisation while you learn. Successful completion of the course gives you an honours degree and the opportunity to apply for membership of the Chartered Management Institute, a professional body membership that is recognised and valued across all sectors.
You could be from any sector, in any size organisation – wanting to become a professional manager. Or you could be an existing manager with practical experience wanting a more structured learning approach and further development.
Course details
Course structure
Year 1 core modules
Business Operations and Planning
You are introduced to business process planning, operations, resourcing, and quality planning and implementation. Learn several key strategies, concepts and models that help you develop knowledge of appropriate management tools to stimulate resource planning and business process improvement. You pay particular attention to identifying key concepts and relationships within sustainable operations and supply chains.
You gain an overview of transformational technologies and examine how they have impacted business through relevant emerging technologies, such as AI, blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality. Identify how these converging technologies transform business and which human skills are required to adopt them.
Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
You gain a core understanding of strategic human resource management. Focus on your organisation's human resource elements and reflect upon other organisations and case studies.
Strategies for Work-Based Learning and Resilience
You effectively understand academic skills, work-based learning and strategies to develop personal resilience in the workplace. Study to become an effective work-based learner, developing a personal perspective on your own learning and development. Learn how to critically reflect to improve your professional practice.
Year 2 core modules
You gain an understanding of the way in which accounting is used in the external evaluation of organisations and develops the ability to use accounting and finance techniques in decision making, control, management and adding value to performance.
Evidence-Based Decision Making
You gain practical skills and theoretical knowledge to design and conduct impactful, ethical, feasible and credible research projects. Develop a research proposal demonstrating your ability to devise and plan out projects.
Planning and Management of Projects
Learn the fundamental concepts of project planning and management, focusing on feasibility to post implementation, including risk and contingency management. This module prepares you for your final-year professional project.
Marketing plays a significant role in any industry, but particularly in the service sector. Organisations cannot operate without promotion or market research for communicating with a range of customers. Examine factors that influence the marketing of products and services and analyse the effectiveness of promotional campaigns for organisations to achieve their marketing objectives.
Year 3 core modules
Dynamics of Organisational Change
You learn knowledge and skills in planning, managing and reflecting on organisational change. It is suitable for aspiring leaders in a range of professional contexts, involving consideration of change processes and impacts at a variety of scales. You develop understanding of the complexities and challenges in organisational change including organisational culture and resistance, as well as being creative and innovative in application of theory to propose solutions and overcome barriers in changing organisations.
Leading and Managing Others in the Workplace
Understand the concept of leadership and management, developing the skills you need to work collaboratively with others to improve performance across a variety of situations and settings. Explore your own leadership style and assess how this can be adapted within different contexts and teams.
Through negotiation between the University, workplace and learner, you design and carry out an inquiry-led activity (project) demonstrating research and development approaches to your own professional development and the development of your organisation. You manage a work-based project to initiate and lead change. The content and context of your project is unique to you or your group.
This is a 30-credit module.
Modules offered may vary.
How you learn
BA (Hons) Management Practice recognises the workplace as a centre of knowledge building and, as such, has an explicit work-based learning strategy that emphasises learning from and for experience and professional practice. The programme supports you by combining learning opportunities within the workplace and the University learning environment. By focusing on the higher learning and skills required for success, this degree combines both academic and vocational learning and fully tests both to provide you with a robust platform on which to build a career in leadership and management.
A workshop style enables you to share knowledge whilst working with your peers to identify solutions to organisational problems. Structured student-led activities are a significant feature of the programme, providing opportunities for you to engage in critical dialogue about professional and organisational practices. The assessments enable you to apply this knowledge and learning directly within the workplace.
All modules on the programme are delivered through blended learning, which uses a combination of face-to-face learning and online delivery.
Assessments allow you to reflect on and analyse your own personal practice as a manager or aspiring manager as well as your organisation’s practices against accepted business models and approaches. You are assessed through collaborative group activity, reflective reports and essays, project planning, interviews, presentations, situational analysis, along with a work-based project in your final year.
Our Disability Services team provide an inclusive and empowering learning environment and have specialist staff to support disabled students access any additional tailored resources needed. If you have a specific learning difficulty, mental health condition, autism, sensory impairment, chronic health condition or any other disability please contact a Disability Services as early as possible.
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements
You must be in employment and have 80-104 UCAS points from at least 2 A levels (or equivalent), together with GCSE English and maths grade 4 or above (or equivalent). We welcome applications from students without conventional entry requirements and consider alternative qualifications or other relevant experience.
For general information please see our overview of entry requirements
You can gain considerable knowledge from work, volunteering and life. Under recognition of prior learning (RPL) you may be awarded credit for this which can be credited towards the course you want to study.
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Employability
Career opportunities
For individuals from a range of sectors and in a variety of roles at manager or senior management level who want to develop their career.
Through collaborative projects with our international partners, you gain the skills and confidence to succeed in the world of work on a global scale. You work with SMEs and large corporate organisations, developing practical business skills by formulating solutions to real-world challenges. We ensure that you acquire a unique mix of ability, knowledge and experience to secure the perfect role.
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