Business Management FdA

Analysing Financial Performance equips you with techniques that enable you to participate in the analysis and efficient management of the financial resources of an organisation, and cover the planning and budgeting process through to the evaluation of performance. This process includes decision-making based on financial data, preparing budgets and analysing performance against budget, and looking at ways to add value to an organisation.

You are introduced to strategic approaches in marketing, including how fundamental principles of marketing concepts influence the changing and competitive environment. Learn about the relationship between organisations and their external environments, focusing on how adapting marketing strategies can enable businesses to compete in the global marketplace.

You gain an understanding of the main theories of Human Resource Management (HRM) and how they are applied within the workplace. You gain theoretical and practical underpinning for the comprehension and analysis of the nature of HRM, including the formal systems devised for the management of people within an organisation.

You develop your understanding of academic and subject specific skills and acquaint yourself with a range of academic conventions and practices. If you are a work-based learner, you can develop key personal skills. You reflect on your own learning and achievement is developed to assist you to proceed to the next stage of your career. It equips and prepares you to work autonomously and become independent, in preparation for employment and higher level study.

This module looks at the nature of organisations and different approaches to managing organisations. You will also consider some of the key issues that influence people's performance in work, such as motivation management, leadership, dealing with conflict and teams.

Connect your learning with real-world applications, showing how theoretical models can help address business challenges. Focus on proposing strategies to enhance performance using real-life experiences and case studies.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of organisational change and its impact. Explore contemporary change models, and consider how to implement and manage change from a line manager’s perspective. Analyse different approaches to organisational change, including managing resistance to change.

Develop the entrepreneurial skills, knowledge and processes you need to turn business ideas into reality. Explore resource management, sustainable strategies and how to navigate the legal and ethical considerations of enterprise development.

Explore the complexities of the global marketplace through activities in the international business environment. Using a culturally and ethically diverse framework, conduct an in-depth analysis of today’s international business landscape.

This module builds on the learning from the Self Analysis and Career Development module. The learning takes place in the workplace, either the normal place of work or a placement appropriate to the sector of study. The module is project based, mainly. The individual should identify a significant aspect of dysfunction in the organisation, identify the underlying factors and develop proposals for how that problem can be addressed. This will be agreed between the student, the employer and the tutor. The module also builds on the Personal Development Plan which the student produced in the Self Analysis and Career Development module in year one of the programme. The individual will reflect on the original personal development plan, drawing on and analysing the learning they have received throughout the programme together with the development of individual key skills. An updated plan will be produced.

You study the fundamental concepts of operations management and its associated issues from a much wider and strategic supply chain perspective. You focus on real world cases and conduct independent evaluation on key supply-chain practices.

This module aims to introduce the fundamental concepts of project management and to build on the role of the project manager in managing teams and providing support for organisational change. It will also be a focus for understanding how to manage several projects from feasibility to post implementation stages, including risk and contingency management. The module will also introduce one of the most prominent project management software used in the industry, Microsoft Project.