BA (Hons) Business, Leadership and Management (Top-Up)

This module focuses on “strategic choice” and translating strategy into action.

It will allow you to build your understanding of organisational strategy and planning in different business sectors and to develop the operational plans in order to deliver the strategy.

This module adopts an experiential and practice-based learning approach to support help you build your understanding of the role that finance and accounting plays in organisational strategy.

It considers financial strategies and the production of financial reports, looking at procurement, contracting and the legal requirements faced by business. It explores budgeting, sources of finance and basic financial accounting principles enabling you to access financial data and examine its validity.

Through completing the assessment for this module you will be able to: manage budgets, control expenditure and produce financial reports.

This module will help you develop a critical understanding of approaches for leading, managing and implementing change.

Through this module you will learn about strategies, skills and techniques to manage change with opportunities to draw on your own experience and organisation as well as examples from other organisations you may be familiar with.

Students will actively demonstrate an ability to lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them.

Many leaders and managers find it difficult managing change, especially if it affects people so models and frameworks will be explored to support learning.

This module explores the strategic management of human resources focusing on recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, talent and diversity management and workforce planning.

You will consider Human Resource practices in your own organisation (or one you are familiar with) in terms of the management of people and the contributions of the wider HR function to the strategy of the organisation.

You will be introduced to the theory of talent management, in addition, you will explore the place and purpose of performance management and appraisal and the concept of reward and recognition in engaging and motivating employees.

This module will introduce the psychology and sociology of organisations, and the important organisational structures and cultures needed to build resilient and sustainable organisations.

It will encourage you to think more critically about how culture, development and design affects an organisation’s resilience and stability through responsible leadership. The module will guide you to critically analyse the interrelation between individuals, groups and organisations and their influence on one another.

This module provides learners with the opportunity to critically reflect on their own management practice, experiences, and professional development to date. Through structured self-assessment and reflective analysis, learners will examine their approach to managing people, resources, and organisational challenges within their current or previous roles.

This module enables learners to explore how their values, behaviours, and experiences shape their management practice and professional identity. Through critical reflection, learners enhance self-awareness, strengthen management capability and resilience, and create a personalised development plan to support career progression and improve professional performance.

This module brings together learning from the programme and prior Level 5 study, enabling students to undertake a substantial independent project or dissertation.

Drawing on either a real organisational context or a theoretical management issue, students will apply academic and professional frameworks to investigate a significant business challenge and develop evidence-based conclusions and recommendations.

Dedicated supervision and academic support are provided throughout the project duration.