Global Business Management BA (Hons)

In the second year, you will explore how to create local and international opportunities for your future ventures through gathering information, critically evaluating options, and planning carefully. Tensions can exist between entrepreneurial leadership styles and you can explore these and more measured, traditional approaches to business opportunities. In all cases, you’ll learn to develop and recommend viable solutions to business opportunities and challenges..

Modules

• Entrepreneurship in a Global Context (20 credits)

  This module will go into detail of the relevant themes on selected areas you studied in Year 1. At this stage, you should understand the nature of entrepreneurship and associated research of a potential business idea. For example, you will intensify the way you conduct micro and macro research, and learn specific methods for using this data to support your ideas. You also learn how to organise, prepare, plan launch a successful start-up by creating a feasibility study.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Leading and Managing People (20 credits)

  This module aims to build on the study and practices of management and leadership you have experienced so far in the course. You will be encouraged to use theoretical models and frameworks to help you understand communication in a range of global business environments. It draws on the link between management styles, effective leadership and change management.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Digital Marketing (20 credits)

  This module aims to provide you with the knowledge of contemporary digital marketing theories and concepts from a strategic point of view that will enable you to engage better with the digital generation. You can gain the core skills and knowledge to help you to navigate your way through the ever-changing world of digital marketing and focus on factors that will make a positive impact on organisational results.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Management Accounting (20 credits)

  This module builds upon the foundations laid in the first-year studies, principally from Level 4 Business Accounting. It aims to give you the ability to select and apply appropriate management accounting techniques for decision making planning, control and performance evaluation purposes. The usefulness of these techniques to modern business organisations is critically examined. Emphasis is also placed on interpreting management accounting outputs as well as evaluating management accounting techniques. You will also be expected to understand the management processes of planning, control and decision-making.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• International Trade (20 credits)

  This module shows you current issues involved in world trade and the challenges and benefits faced when trading in a variety of international markets. You learn why international trade is important for nations, and examine how it effects production, profit and the economy. You will become familiar with the skills required to research and assess international markets and understand the factors that affect them. In learning how global markets work, you will assess and recommend the most cost effective means of exporting and importing, and the strategies for establishing business links worldwide through international trade.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Operations Management (20 credits)

  One important aim of this module is for you to gain an understanding of the limitations of Management Accounting techniques. It teaches you what they try to do and how they do it. You are introduced to the behavioural aspects of Managerial Accounting in areas such as ‘budget games’. You will learn to think independently and critically so you can evaluate a corporation’s performance by using major theoretical concepts and accounting tools.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

Instead of going straight into your final year, you have the option to apply to do an additional year either on a work placement or studying abroad. Both choices are likely to have a positive impact on your personal and professional development. Our Talent Team can help students to find a work placement in the UK, or you may arrange your own placement overseas.

While we would like to give you all the information about our placement/study abroad offering here, it is often tailored for each course every year and depending on the length of placement or study abroad opportunities that are secured. Therefore, the placement and study abroad arrangements vary per course and per student. Please contact registry.london@coventry.ac.uk for more information about going on a placement or study abroad year.

Modules

• UK Work Placement

  Optional

• Study / Work Placement Abroad

  Optional

In the final year, you will have the opportunity develop your strategic capabilities while also polishing the vital skills you may need for job applications and interviewing. You will focus on project management and research skills, which may be useful not only throughout your career but will also be particularly helpful as you undertake your 11-week final major project. (A choice of an internship, a dissertation, Entrepreneurship Business plan or a software-based business simulation.)

Modules

• International Business Strategy (20 credits)

  This module aims to give you the knowledge, skills, and competencies you need to interpret and develop a business strategy for creating and capturing value. Through this process, you develop an understanding of the impact of contemporary issues on the development and implementation of international strategy.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Project Management - blended learning (20 credits)

  We have designed this module to introduce you to the principles, tools and techniques of project management. It gives you an introduction to the importance of project management, organisational structure and strategy, project selection and prioritisation. It focuses on projects involving significant changes, including projects related to new products, and services, which will affect the lives of people both within and outside the organisation.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Business Research Skills (20 credits)

  This module aims to provide you with an understanding of business research methodology and a range of research skills. This will help you to understand the features of research ethics in the discipline of business and management, and you can confidently integrate a university risk assessment within your research proposal. As a result, you will have developed a comprehensive research proposal on a subject of their choice that could be developed into an original independent research project.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Managing a Global Workforce (20 credits)

  This module begins with defining the scope and functions of Human Resource Management and how you can apply this knowledge in your own work context. You learn how to critically understand key HRM processes, including recruitment and selection, employee participation and engagement, training and development, performance and reward management and reward. You are encouraged to critically assess the applicability of HRM across varying cultures and investigate the various factors that influence the application of HRM strategies in a global context.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: coursework

• Fina-term project (40 credits)

  One from the following:

  • Internship

  You will undertake a significant piece of written work in a topic appropriate to the field of business management or the broader economic landscape. The aim is to provide you with an opportunity to do a substantive piece of research, integrating your research skills development, knowledge and experience to a specialist area of interest on a topic that relevant to the Internship employer and approved by your supervisor.

  • Dissertation

  The aim of this module is to give you an opportunity to undertake a significant piece of written work in a topic appropriate to your field of study. You will have an opportunity to do a substantive piece of research, integrating research skills development and extending your knowledge and experience to a specialist area.

  • Entrepreneurship Business Plan

  The aim of this module is for you to write a business plan on the basis of your knowledge you acquired during your Year 2 of study (in particular in the 5002LON Entrepreneurship in a Global Context module). By the time you start this module, you will have learned the fundamental elements of entrepreneurship that are essential to pass.

  • Global Business Simulation

  This is an action-based learning module where you have opportunities to act as business manager in a simulated business environment. You will make business decisions and see the results (real time) in a highly competitive environment over several rounds of play representing business years. This gives you real business experience on your learning journey and introduces you to an environment where you actively engage in deep learning through anticipating outcomes and observing the consequences of your business choices. The module helps you to reflect and refine your knowledge by actively engaging in group business review facilitated by the supervising academic/instructor.

  Optional

  Assessment: coursework