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Level 4: Business and Management Skills
Introduction
Identify the key skills areas that will be needed during your study and potentially in the world of employment; understand how to use available information resources and to incorporate them into your work; assess how to manage time effectively to set priorities, meet deadlines and avoid stress; develop the tools to communicate effective numerical and verbal information; and understand the role of numerical data in business and how to analyse and present that data.
Module Description
This module aims to:
- Review and understand the management role within organisations
- Develop students own management and research skills
- Solve problems by making effective decisions in the workplace
- Experience of basic quantitative techniques and skills
- Gain 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 , 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
- Understanding the nature and purpose of organisations, including mission and value statements, stakeholders and their objectives
- The role of the manager and communication
- Business Communication – internal and external
- The management task, including planning, organising, motivating and controlling
- Problem solving in the workplace
- Types of data and data collection
- Measurement Approaches (averages, distribution, variation, correlation, regression, probability)
- Presentation of data
- Evaluating personal development
- Team building and management
- Review and evaluate findings from research
- Business communication – internal and external
- Team building and management
- Types of data, including primary and secondary discrete and continuous data
- Measurement and analytical approaches
[1] Subject benchmark statements General Business and Management.
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/honours/business.asp#6
