Bachelor in Business and Management (Top-up Degree)

Competences:

• Design, organize, and lead a team with the goal of bringing new products and services to market
• Manage your personal brand using information communication technology tools
• Design, develop, and communicate business initiatives that are aligned with business sustainability
• Facilitate positive business outcomes through effective negotiation and persuasion skills

Knowledge:

• Theories of team development such as Tuckman’s, Belbin, and Lencioni's 5 Dysfunctions of a team
• A range of different types and functions of information communication technology tools
• Types of stakeholders and power-interest grids
• A range of business initiatives that meet Business Sustainability goals (such as environmental responsibility, corporate social responsibility, and community development)
• The role and application of negotiation and persuasion skills

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Apply negotiation skills for win-win outcomes to implement the new business opportunity
• Assess and select appropriate information communication technologies to improve company performance
• Evaluate stakeholders and assess their own personal power-interest grid
• Develop a plan for operational, personal, and strategic networking

Judgment skills and critical abilities

• Apply problem-solving skills to resolve issues that can derail the business opportunity
• Assess your current networking and selling skills

Module-specific communication skills

• Transform an initial idea into a fully-fledged business opportunity and effectively communicate this opportunity through a business plan
• Effectively present and communicate opportunities to technical and business-oriented audiences
• Use relevant and appropriate terminology when discussing and exchanging views in a business context
• Communicate and articulate their ideas clearly in writing and orally

Module-specific learner skills

• Adapt to changing circumstances that occur during the entrepreneurial process
• Appropriately and accurately apply the Harvard referencing system
• Acknowledge all sources of information
• Individually carry out further research in this area

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences

• Search, gather, communicate and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources

Competences:

• Assess current performance taking into consideration the internal and external environment of an organisation
• Monitor and assess the business's current state against future goals to identify areas requiring change
• Develop different strategic options to achieve business goals
• Devise solutions to implementation challenges for the achievement of strategic goals

Knowledge:

• Core constructs of strategic planning such as the different levels of strategy, quantifiable progress, short-medium, and long-term goals
• The key steps in strategic planning include an understanding of the vision, mission, and values of the organisation
• The organisational attributes that can be leveraged for success such as tangible and intangible resources, technological assets, and human resources
• A range of ways of making value judgments on the suitability of fit between organisational strategy and the current business environment (micro and macro influences)
• How to conduct a strategic gap analysis using a range of tools such as VRIO analysis, Core Competencies analysis, Value Chain analysis, and others

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Effectively conduct a strategic gap analysis and identify opportunities/options
• Propose at least 4 strategic options to achieve business goals
• Select with justification the most suitable strategic option
• Create a workable (SMART) plan to ensure the implementation of the strategic option

Judgment skills and critical abilities

• Evaluate the goals and objectives of an organisation
• Assess the resources and capabilities of an organisation
• Assess the external competitive environment of an organisation
• Criticise the strengths and limitations of the tools, frameworks, and models used to arrive at one option
• Evaluate methods to measure the success of the plan

Module-specific communication skills

• Identify and apply the most appropriate way to communicate the strategic plan within a specific organisation
• Use relevant and appropriate terminology when discussing and exchanging views in a business context
• Communicate and articulate their ideas clearly in writing and orally

Module-specific learner skills

• Discuss the need for a strategy
• Discuss common reasons for failed strategy implementation
• Appropriately and accurately apply the Harvard referencing system
• Acknowledge all sources of information
• Individually carry out further research in this area

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences

• Search, gather, communicate, and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources

Competences:

• Formulate a dissertation proposal based on a business or management research challenge (problem or opportunity)
• Conduct in-depth research, which shows familiarity with the research topic, other studies, and theories
• Evaluate and select appropriate research methodologies and tools
• Analyse and interpret data and present findings
• Draw conclusions and make recommendations
• Present research in an appropriate academic manner

Knowledge:

• Elements of appropriate research proposals/research
• The attributes of focused research question/s and ways of crafting well-defined problem statements
• The role and sourcing of primary and secondary research
• The key stages and effective monitoring of a successful dissertation plan

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Review and identify relevant and current literature and sources
• Discern underlying theories, within and between a range of relevant literature
• Critically evaluate a range of seminal, primary, and secondary literature
• Ethically collect relevant data to inform the research study
• Conduct data analysis and critical interpretation to reach informed conclusions based on research theories

Judgment skills and critical abilities

• Justify the use of research methodologies and tools selected to collect and process primary data
• Identify and assess potential ethical issues that need to be taken into consideration
• Justify the procedures, techniques, and methods used for the collection, classification, and analysis of data
• Adopt and apply an open-minded and creative approach to research
• Draw valid and unbiased conclusions and make recommendations based on the research conducted
• Identify and evaluate the limitations of the research study
• Articulate personal reflections outlining the entire research challenge process

Module-specific communication skills

• Present the research in an appropriate academic manner applying consistency and communication logical throughout
• Select and apply correct terminology and linguistic flow in the written presentation
• Apply a logical and consistent structure to the written report

Module-specific learner skills

• Demonstrate proper and accurate use of the Harvard referencing style in text and in the bibliography
• Record the method/s of collecting, processing, and preparing data
• Discuss the validity and reliability of research methods
• Acknowledge all sources of information.

• Search, gather, communicate, and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources

Competences:

• Leading by example through the application of ethical and value-based leadership
• Recognising potential in people and applying appropriate and effective ways of developing leaders
• Comparatively, assess different leaders from a range of workplace contexts
• Critically apply EQ and IQ strategies to identify and overcome people's challenges

Knowledge:

• The key components and characteristics of effective leadership such as effective communication, designing a shared vision, and strategic thinking and planning
• The difference between manager and leader roles and their characteristics (such as designing vs implementing business plans, inspiring vs managing people, focusing on goals vs focusing on tasks)
• A range of leadership styles and approaches (such as transformational, strategic, transactional)
• The importance and elements of business values and ethics, including the 3 parts to the discipline of business ethics
• The key constructs of EQ and IQ and how the two complement each other for effective leadership (IQ – analysis & judgement, planning & organizing, strategic perspective, and creativity & risk-taking; EQ – self-awareness, self-regulation, intrinsic motivation, empathy, and social skills)

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Assess and select appropriate leadership approaches within a business context
• Develop a leadership matrix to measure and evaluate own leadership skills
• Measure and reflect on your own IQ and EQ and ways of further developing these areas
• Communicate and get buy-in for ideas to further encourage positive behaviours, attitudes, and values in the workplace

Judgement skills and critical abilities

• Reflect on their own approach towards the workplace and how this impacts their own performance
• Recognise own levels of IQ and EQ in responding to and addressing a range of workplace challenges
• Assess the reasons why organisations need business ethics
• Evaluate business ethics dilemmas that can occur at your workplace

Module-specific communication skills

• Use relevant and appropriate terminology when discussing and exchanging views in a business context
• Communicate and articulate their ideas clearly in writing and orally
• Confidently give a formal presentation to a variety of audiences

Module-specific learner skills

• Outline the historical rise of ethics and identify common ethical principles from a business perspective
• Assess and make recommendations for enhancing existing business ethics and positive values in a specific organisation
• Appropriately and accurately apply the Harvard referencing system
• Acknowledge all sources of information
• Individually carry out further research in this area

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences

• Search, gather, communicate and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources

Competences:

• Evaluate their own work placement experience using a range of tools, models, or frameworks
• Appraise their own personal development during the work placement experience
• Research, develop, and implement a plan, including appropriate strategies, to build their own professional networks
• Reflect upon, assess, and identify lessons learned from at least one work placement challenging situation

Knowledge:

• A wide range of creativity and problem-solving skills
• The different professional self-assessment tools and how they work to identify areas and needs for continued professional growth
• A wide spectrum of transferable employability skills (such as organisational skills, time management, communication skills, teamwork and collaboration skills, adaptability, problem-solving and others) and how to harness these in different professional contexts
• Career paths and trajectories within the chosen industry

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Self-assess own effectiveness in managing time and demonstrating resilience when engaged in competing academic and workplace activities
• Develop an informed career development plan to reflect own career path and journey following this course of study
• Assess and select appropriate strategies to present and promote self in the chosen industry
• Evaluate own progress/development in at least 2 employability skills following the work placement experience

Judgment skills and critical abilities

• Reflect on organisational performance factors, and their impact, during own work experience at the placement organisation
• Reflect on individual performance factors, and their impact, during your own work experience at the placement organisation

Module-specific communication skills

• Use relevant and appropriate terminology when discussing and exchanging views in a business context
• Discuss communication strategies and techniques that can be used to build your network
• Communicate and articulate their ideas clearly in writing and orally
• Confidently give a formal presentation to a variety of audiences

Module-specific learner skills

• Examine at least two employability skills learned during your work placement experience
• Identify strategies to build new professional relationships
• Appropriately and accurately apply the Harvard referencing system
• Acknowledge all sources of information
• Individually carry out further research in this area

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences

• Search, gather, communicate and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources