BA in Management with Psychology

The module features the fundamentals of management through the functions of planning, organising, controlling and leading. It highlights the strategic approach towards managerial decision-making and provides knowledge to students on how to approach problems, challenges and opportunities linked with human resources, motivation and teamwork. It features the key fundamentals on communication, change management and leadership and highlights the importance of ethical behaviour and social responsibility in managerial decision-making. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Exercise management and supervision in the key functions of management, namely, planning, organising, controlling and leading people. Facilitate the process of managing stakeholders and corporate governance in a competitive environment;
2. Study and influence culture and managing organisations through behavioural and situational models through motivational techniques;
3. Address and apply intelligence in unpredictable change in organisations through teams and team work and demonstrate a level of power and reasoning to manage activities effectively and efficiently;
4. Develop performance management systems of people and set measurement control systems;
5. Demonstrate aptitude and capabilities to complete basic finance and budgetary control;
6. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

Students will have knowledge and understanding of key components of accounting and finance including measuring and reporting financial position, performance and analysing and interpreting financial statements based on cash-flow statements, profit and loss account and balance sheets. The Module provides a sound basis of cost-volume profit analysis, costing and budgeting. Furthermore, it will provide students with knowledge, skills and competencies on how to make basic capital investment decisions and how to manage working capital. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Exercise management and supervision in the key functions of accounting namely, measuring and reporting financial performance, making capital investment decisions, and doing budgets whilst reporting cash flows;
2. Study and influence accounting and finance managerial decisions focusing on making capital investment decision and financing the business in the long and short-term;
3. Be competent in understanding the regulatory requirements as set out by national and international bodies;
4. Address and apply intelligence in unpredictable change in organisations through teams and team work and demonstrate a level of power and reasoning to manage the finance of an organisation effectively and efficiently;
5. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module provides students with the knowledge and understanding of strategic HRM and also the skills, abilities and competences to prospective and present managers on how they maximise the potentials of human resources in an organisation. It provide the tools, knowledge and understanding on how the management of human resources management contributes towards corporate objectives. Students will enhance their knowledge and understanding of how HRM theories including performance management, recruitment and selection, employee welfare, ethics and corporate social responsibility, reward systems and talent management can be applied in practice. The module is intended to give students the know-how to resolve HRM issues and highlights the current trends in this important discipline in management. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Be able to critically evaluate and apply theories to practice the main concepts and theories of human resources management;
2. Be able to identify, assess and practice the key functions of the HR functions from a strategic and operational perspective;
3. Be able to identify, determine and apply to practice the international human resources management perspective to issues, challenges and opportunities within the HR function of both public and private sector organisations;
4. Apply human resource management within a restructuring context and general organisational context;
5. Be able to evaluate and apply in practice the basics of human resources planning, recruitment and selection;
6. Be able to identify, evaluate and apply the basic concept of performance and reward management;
7. Be able to assess and critically evaluate the challenges, issues and opportunities for employee involvement, employee relations and human resources training and development needs for both public and private sector organisations;
8. Be able to identify, evaluate and apply practice in employee welfare principles;
9. Be able to apply HRM models, frameworks and HRM paradigms within organisational culture and diversity at the workplace;
10. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module covers the different environments within which companies and public sector organisations have to operate and gives the students the appropriate knowledge to assess the strategic capabilities of an organisation. It further provides views and concepts of strategic choices and strategic purposes of organisations and highlights the key components of organisational culture and how this influences and impacts the strategy. Various types of business strategies are explained and tools, models and frameworks on how corporate strategy can be applied through diversification are part of the module content. The module includes theories and practical models that can be applied through innovation and mergers, acquisitions and alliances. Leadership and strategic change and how these are applied within a firm are key elements of this module. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Identify the key components of a strategy and issues associated with organisational strategy;
2. Appreciate the contributions of different academic disciplines and theoretical lenses to practice strategy analysis;
3. Analyze macro- and micro-environments on organisational strategy and identify successful strategies for business organisations;
4. Use various concepts and technique to recognize threats and opportunities in the marketplace;
5. Identify and analyses how strategic capabilities can provide sustainable competitive advantage;
6. Understand and undertake stakeholder analysis and corporate responsibilities performance models;
7. Analyse the influence of organisational culture on strategy;
8. Identify and assess generic business strategies and internationalization and their benefits in a competitive environment;
9. Determine the appropriate choices between mergers and acquisition and alliances;
10. Assess the value of strategic change;
11. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module will enhance the knowledge and understanding of how marketing management can contribute towards organisational goals and how marketing strategies can be planned, executed and reviewed within a specific business environment. It will further enable students resolve marketing issues and provide solutions from a managerial perspective taking into consideration the product, price, place and promotion (the ‘marketing mix’). At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Exercise management and supervision in the area of Marketing Management at a level appropriate to MQF Level 6 expectations and understand the role and structure of the marketing function;
2. Critically recognise the importance of marketing in organisations and assess the role and importance of scanning internal and external environment factors and their impact on the marketing function;
3. Critically appreciate the importance and contribution of marketing as a business strategy that interfaces between the organisation and its customers;
4. Critically apply intelligence in the decision-making process that consumers go through as they make a purchase and understand the factors that affect the decision-making process including environmental, psychological or sociocultural factors and their impacts on marketing strategies;
5. Demonstrate competences at a level appropriate to MQF Level 6 expectations in analysing the difference, nature and structure of B2B and consumer buying and its link with the marketing strategy;
6. Critically determine the sources of market research and appreciate ethical concerns surrounding marketing research;
7. Critically apply intelligence in gaining insight into the nature and usage of the three main elements of new media: email marketing; wireless marketing and interacting television marketing and the use of digital marketing;
8. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

In the absence of effective leadership organisations will fail. This module explores the attributes of what makes an effective organisational leader, the techniques they employ and how effective leaders are essential to sustainable succession planning. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Critically understand and effectively apply appropriate leadership behaviours in different organisational circumstances;
2. Effectively collaborate with colleagues to ensure the development of complementary and appropriate leadership approaches across the organisation;
3. Is able to critically monitor leadership behaviours across an organisation through a formal and continuing research process;
4. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module includes a critical approach towards the on-going and relevant debate on the importance on business ethics and synthesise the knowledge required by managers to lead employees in an ethical approach and how managers will develop their response to issues and circumstances that require an ethical approach. The module also extends and develop the capabilities and skills of the students to act, manage and take ethically correct decisions in a business environment. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

1. Critically exercise management and supervision in the business case for business ethics management and understand the role of managers and leaders in identifying business and organisational ethics;
2. Critically recognise the importance of boundaries of jurisdictional spheres of justice and define the boundaries of economic sphere in the context of business ethics and its impact on a business organisation;
3. Critically appreciate the importance and contribution of the range of ethical and moral issues that arise in management and organisations;
4. Critically apply intelligence in distinguishing between ethical, moral and legal wrongdoing and assess the importance of a particular misdeed;
5. Demonstrate critical competences in analysing good governance and the complex consequences and motives that typically attend ethical and moral issues in management and organisations;
6. Demonstrate critical competence in understanding the implications of different ethical theories for organisations and management and apply relevant theories to ethical issues in a work environment;
7. Critically apply intelligence in comparing different approaches to ethical thinking, explain values and distinguish them from attitudes and beliefs;
8. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module highlights the importance of research mindedness within a business environment and builds upon elements already introduced in the other modules studied on the programme. The module enables students to develop research mindedness, critical understanding and skills for business research. Students will enhance their knowledge and skills on research mindedness and its relevance for practice. They will frame research questions and plan and develop a literature-based project proposal and make use of library/electronic resources. The module will further provide students with knowledge on qualitative and quantitative methodologies and the ethics of business research. The module will enhance a student’s ability to integrate research and theory for evidence-based practice. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

• Recognise the importance and be able to explain the nature and purpose of research and classify different types of research;
• Study and demonstrate the main stages in a research process and identify the characteristics of a good research project;
• Address and apply intelligence in understanding the general standards for research at different levels for effective career progression and self-development;
• Demonstrate competences and skills in identifying research constraints such as funding, time and resources and determine the knowledge, skills and personal qualities researchers need to produce meaningful research outputs;
• Demonstrate competence in using different techniques for generating research topics;
• Address and apply intelligence to negotiate access to data and to consider relevant ethical issues as part of the research project;
• Apply intelligence and competences in planning the management of a research process;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module provides students with a general introduction to the study of Psychology, including its historical development, major fields of both research and practical application, current and emerging perspectives and key issues. The module provides students with the theoretical basis necessary for understanding how Psychology can impact upon business operations. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

• Recognise and understand the concept of Behaviorism and how the application of the concept has implications for interrelationships and operant conditioning;
• Study and demonstrate knowledge on perception and cognition and demonstrate an understanding of how people learn and memorize through information gathering and retention of learning;
• Address and apply intelligence in understanding how to define problems, types of problems and states of problem solving;
• Demonstrate competence and skills in identifying the reasons why creativity in problem solving is important and how individuals develop problem-solving skills;
• Demonstrate competence in understanding the ideal self, congruence and incongruence, personality development, and the necessary conditions for growth in people;
• Address and apply intelligence to understand the human potential and the fully functioning person and how Maslow’s theory of motivation and the hierarchy of needs operates;
• Apply intelligence and competence in the analysis and interpretation of social behaviour and issues associated with the theory and practice of aggression in the workplace;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

The module explores key themes related to individual differences in people with reference to a variety of personality theories, including psychodynamic, biological, behavioural, dispositional, phenomenological and cognitive theories of personality. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

• Manage and transform work studies to recognize the importance of stereotyped thoughts and prejudicial feelings as potential influences on an individuals’ behaviour;
• Manage complex and unpredictable situations concerning the conceptualization and measurement of behavioural traits in individuals;
• Apply strategic approaches to decision-making processes that take into account the way in which individuals prioritize elements in life as reflected in particular organized sets of beliefs;
• Take responsibility for individuals’ behaviour towards members of psychological in-groups and out-groups alike;
• Contribute to professional knowledge and practice on interpersonal relations or intergroup relations;
• Review and apply knowledge and practice in respect to studies on individual differences in thoughts, feelings, and behaviour within particular social situations;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.

Each student will be guided on a one-to-one basis by an appointed supervisor on how to identify an appropriate research topic, an appropriate approach to adopt in seeking to address the agreed research question and how to apply relevant research philosophies and strategies. Students will be expected to be able to justify identified research questions and test emerging research hypotheses. The module necessarily seeks to build on BABM19. At the end of the module, you will be able to:

• Manage and transform a research proposal into a research study that has the potential to add value to the area being explored;
• Manage the planning of a research project, taking into account potentially complex and unpredictable situations, and including research milestones;
• Undertake an analytical literature review in the chosen discipline area and, from this review, prepare an appropriate bibliography;
• Understand and explain the relevance of differing philosophical perspectives and understand the main research paradigms which are significant for a business research project;
• Understand the importance of research ethics at each stage of a research project, having regard to, for example, the principles of data protection and data management;
• Review and apply knowledge to determine appropriate sampling techniques for a variety of differing research scenarios and be able to justify their selection;
• Manage complex techniques to gather secondary and primary data and apply the knowledge, skills and understanding gained to an actual research project;
• Make a contribution to professional knowledge and practice through the output of the major project;
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant ethical expectations and any professional regulatory compliance requirements as set out by national and international bodies.