Welcome to your Business Management course

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops. Seminars enable you to discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures in smaller groups. In addition, you will have meetings with an academic mentor at least twice a year.

The course will provide you with opportunities to engage with formative modules and engagement activities to help us to gauge your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments.

There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, written reports, presentations, and independent supervised projects.

You will often be given independent learning tasks to do on your own. They are designed to consolidate your learning and give you opportunities to complete tutorials or practice what you have learnt from your scheduled sessions.

Assignments are given required support and facilitated as and when required during your term time with designated assessment support sessions run in each module.

You will be taught in our state-of-the-art learning spaces throughout your course. The consultancy module will help you develop collaborative management project with an organisation of your choice to identify an area of research beneficial to both you and the organisation.

You will be involved in real-time problem solving, develop a set of recommendations based on your research findings and present those findings to the organisation. You will also get an opportunity to engage with industry experts and gain insights from them on contemporary management trends and how to deal with related issues.

In your first few weeks at university, as you get to know each other, the staff and familiarise yourself with the facilities you will also be engaging in some of the following modules:

 

Authentic Leadership

Authentic leadership brings together the concept of authenticity with positive psychology. You will learn how to make confident and effective leadership interventions and to be aware of the impact of these interventions in wider organisational settings. You will explore the theory and process of leadership and explore your own preferred style.

Data and Decision Making

Data is of great importance of modern organisations. This module will explore the role and importance of information and data within organisations, tools and techniques for analysing and interpreting the data for the purposes of decision making, and tools and techniques for data presentation and visualisation. In addition, the module will cover the concepts and principles in business statistics.

 

Consultancy/Management Project In Specialism

In the first part of the module, you will learn about research, research process and differences between quantitative and qualitative research. In the second part of the module, you will develop collaborative consultancy/management project with an organisation of your choice to identify an area of research beneficial to both you and the organisation. You will be involved in real-time problem solving, develop a set of recommendations based on your research findings and present those findings to the organisation.

Case Study - Mediamatic Restaurant

The university provides academic resources such as libraries, writing centres, tutoring services, and study groups. Get to know what is available to you and take advantage of these resources to enhance your learning experience.

 

General advice and guidance at the start of your academic journey:

 

TED Talks

· How failure cultivates resilience

In his research for NASA, clinical psychologist Raphael Rose discovered that failure is key to creating resilience. He explains how leaning into trials and setbacks builds the emotional callouses that help us value what's good in life.

· The era of open innovation

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't.

· Why AI is incredibly smart and shockingly stupid

· A vision for sustainability in aviation

· How to protect your mental well-being online -- from a Gen-Zer 

 

Book Suggestions

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Book by John Perkins)

The Corporation (by Joel Bakan)

Movie Suggestions

• Capitalism: A love story
• Deepwater Horizon
• Erin Brockovich
• The Gods must be crazy
• The Insider
• The Internship
• The Last Dance
• The Negotiator
• The Social Network

School Blog

We have a large selection of blogs written by both staff and students for you to browse through. They cover a wide variety of topics such as student projects, study trips, staff research, business advice and even where to go for great food in the local area. 

Being a member of a Student Society or Sports Team is a great way to meet other students and our Students' Union have a wide range of societies you can join, based on your academic subjects or personal interests.

Students' Union

You can read stories and watch videos about our current students and graduates on the JSS Blog and YouTube playlist. Staff across the Business School are also active bloggers and regularly contribute to the local news media on areas of specific interest related to their expertise. You will also have an opportunity during your course to create content for these channels.

There are a multitude of resources available online for students at Staffordshire University, such as Microsoft Office 365. 

Software for students