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This module gives you an understanding of entrepreneurship and how individuals in all types and sizes of organisation can use entrepreneurial practices to solve problems and create value. The aim of the module is to allow you to both build and understand the entrepreneurial mind-set and develop the capability to identify and create entrepreneurial opportunities through the creation, development and exploitation of new ideas, products, services and processes.

This module develops a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial process and the development of new business ventures. It explains the stages of business planning, survival, venture growth and exit, in the context of private, public and third sectors. It explores the key phases of start-up: from the identification of a potential opportunity; intellectual protection; identifying an appropriate business model and strategy; meeting statutory demands; marketing; and financial planning.

Provides a critical insight into the enduring nature of change and creativity for organisational survival and growth. This module encourages recognition of the organisational tensions and performance fluctuations linked to the generation and application of change and new ideas.

This module encourages you to independently explore and research the diverse contribution that strategic practices make to business performance. It develops analytical techniques and judgements based on theoretical models and contextual trends that impact on strategic implementation.

This module develops your abilities to analyse business and financial data and glean key insights that can influence strategic decision making. This contributes to the sustainable financial wellbeing of commercial or non-profit institutions that are faced with disruptive competition.

Enables you to independently explore and develop your skills and knowledge as an HRM practitioner via contemporary and constructive debates, using information and understanding of HRM across the strategic and operational business environment and related management functions. The aim of this module is to increase credibility in the field of HRM and develop frameworks to support and underpin the evolving nature of work that will integrate with other HR strategies and functions and support human capital and business performance. It develops analytical techniques and judgements based on theoretical models and contextual trends that impact on reward management across strategic business functions.

This module examines the complex relationship between business practices and the impact on the global environment. It considers the ways in which businesses can contribute positively to global environmental concerns and policies.

This module is designed to develop your ability to apply effective communication planning and brand management concepts. It provides insights into the contribution to organisational performance made by enhancing sustainable stakeholder relationships and delivering customer value.

This module provides insights into the nature and make-up of academic research methods that align with common research frameworks. It introduces analytical techniques and approaches to sampling along with research ethics in order to provide you with direction that will enable you to investigate and solve your research questions.

This module supports you in identifying a contemporary business or management problem that is sufficiently complex to warrant investigation as a means of identifying possible solutions. It will provide insight into the nature of academic research, together with methodologies and analytical techniques. You will develop and submit your research proposal based on a focused literature review. The problem identified in this module will be researched in your dissertation.

This module will enable you to focus on a significant piece of investigative enquiry on a chosen managerial or business problem, where you will develop skills in conceptualising business information within an academic context, and translating your research and findings into practice, with the evaluation and development of potential solutions. You will develop your analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, providing you with a depth of understanding of the problem and the theory applied to its solution.