Level 1: Business Skills

Module Description

This module aims to:

Provide students with experience of basic quantitative techniques and skills; and

Give students confidence in communicating numerically as well as verbally using a range of media which are widely used in business (these domains are a feature of the general business and management benchmarks [1], in which "effective communication, oral and in writing" and "numeracy and quantitative skills including data analysis, interpretation and extrapolation" are part of graduate skills).

Module Content

Effective data searches
Business communication – internal and external
Effective presentations
Types of data, including primary & secondary discrete and continuous data
Diagrams, tables and histograms
Averages and measures of spread

Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

Identify the key skills areas which will be needed during their course and potentially in the world of employment
Understand how to use available information resources and to incorporate them into their work
Assess how to manage time effectively in order to set priorities, meet deadlines, avoid stress
Develop the tools to communicate effective numerical and verbal information
Understand the role of numerical data in business and how to analyse and present that data.

[1] Subject benchmark statements General Business and Management.

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/honours/business.asp#6

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