BA (honores) en gestión empresarial (práctica de liderazgo)

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this degree, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Knowledge and critical understanding of the main concepts, theories and principles associated with business management
• Systematic knowledge and understanding in one or more of the following specialisms, and the role they play in enhancing knowledge and practical skills in business management: accounting, economics, innovation and enterprise, leadership practice, and marketing.

Cognitive skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Synthesise, critically evaluate and challenge information, arguments and assumptions from different sources, including current research and scholarship, by the theories, concepts and principles of business management
• Select and apply your knowledge and understanding to a wide range of the principal professional skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with business management, including in contexts with a degree of unpredictability and/or specialism
• Appreciate the potential uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge in business management
• Select and use accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry outside the context in which they were first studied and be aware of their limitations.

Practical and/or professional skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Critically engage, as appropriate, with practical and professional skills and demonstrate an awareness of relevant responsible and ethical issues in business management.
• Revisar periódicamente la situación actual y el desarrollo personal futuro, las opciones profesionales y laborales, y desarrollar estrategias para abordar los factores que pueden limitar las opciones.
• Recognise the importance of developing both technical and non-technical skills and of learning from feedback and self-reflection
• Plan, monitor and evaluate your learning and seek ways to improve your performance, and potentially, your career prospects.

Key skills

On completion of this degree, you will be able to:

• Identificar, interpretar y resolver problemas complejos propios de la gestión empresarial.
• Reflexionar sobre la idoneidad y eficacia de los procesos de resolución de problemas utilizados e identificar principios clave relevantes en situaciones futuras.
• Utilice una combinación de procesos de planificación formales y lógicos y una comprensión del contexto para identificar información y riesgos relevantes, e identificar estrategias y recursos alternativos.
• Presente o comunique información sobre temas especializados de una manera adecuada a su propósito y audiencia, fomentando el intercambio de ideas y perspectivas.
• Comunicarse con pares, expertos y/o colegas de alto nivel a nivel académico/profesional.
• Colaborar con otros para lograr resultados conjuntos, facilitando activamente la interacción grupal efectiva, influyendo y/o liderando según corresponda.
• Crear, utilizar, compartir y reutilizar contenidos digitales según corresponda a la gestión empresarial, adoptando un enfoque responsable y ético.
• Demostrar la capacidad de encontrar, evaluar críticamente y utilizar de forma independiente una amplia gama de información, datos o herramientas con precisión en contextos complejos.
• Adoptar una amplia gama de habilidades numéricas y prácticas digitales, incluido el uso de herramientas/recursos, según corresponda a la gestión empresarial.
• Demonstrate an understanding of academic language and literacy practices to effectively engage with the academic knowledge and skills of OU level 3 study.

This degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.

You’ll study a 60-credit introductory business and management module. Thereafter, for your remaining 300 credits, you'll combine the study of business and management with a focus on leadership practice.

Stage 1 (120 credits)

You'll study the following:

• An introduction to business and management (B100)

You'll complete Stage 1 with 60 credits from:

• Communication skills for business and management (LB170)
• Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century (U101)
• Discovering mathematics (MU123)
• Economics in Context (DD126)
• Fundamentals of Accounting (B124)
• Introducing statistics (M140)
• Making your learning count (YXM130)
• You and your money (DB125)
• Business data analytics and decision making (B126)

Stage 2 (120 credits)

You'll study both of the following:

• Shaping business opportunities (B207)
• Developing leadership (B208)

Stage 3 (120 credits)

You'll start Stage 3 with:

• Strategic management (B302)

You’ll complete your degree with 60 credits chosen from:

• Creating futures: sustainable enterprise and innovation (B327)
• Leadership in a changing world (B329)
• Management accounting and international finance (B391)
• Marketing in action (B328)

Assessment

Our assessments are all designed to reinforce your learning and help you show your understanding of the topics. The mix of assessment methods will vary between modules.

Computer-Marked Assignments

• Usually, a series of online, multiple-choice questions.

Tutor-Marked Assignments

• You’ll have a number of these throughout each module, each with a submission deadline.
• They can be made up of essays, questions, experiments or something else to test your understanding of what you have learned.
• Your tutor will mark and return them to you with detailed feedback.

End-of-Module Assessments

• The final, marked piece of work on most modules.
• Modules with an end-of-module assessment won’t usually have an exam.

Exams

• Some modules end with an exam. You’ll be given time to revise and prepare.
• You’ll be given your exam date at least 5 months in advance.
• Most exams take place remotely, and you will complete them at home or at an alternative location.
• If a module requires you to take a face-to-face exam, this will be made clear in the module description, and you will be required to take your exam in person at one of our exam centres.