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BA (Honours) Leadership and Management - Learning outcomes

Educational aims

This programme aims to provide you with:

  • a general understanding of organisations, their structures and cultures, wider considerations such as environments, markets and processes, and how all these inform leadership and management
  • an ability to analyse leadership behaviour and management decision-making in the workplace
  • an understanding of how you can contribute to and develop skills in leadership and management in your own working life
  • relevant and practical skills, in particular IT, numerical, study and thinking skills
  • the necessary skills to engage in a process of lifelong learning, including progression to higher awards, and to develop yourself as a reflective practitioner. 

Learning outcomes

The degree provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas:

Knowledge and understanding

You will gain knowledge and understanding of:

  • the nature and purpose of business organisations; key concepts relating to their functioning, survival and success 
  • the structure, culture and role of business organisations; the complex dynamics of organisational environments; how organisations understand and interact with their environments 
  • the nature and development of leadership skills and behaviours; key concepts relating to leadership, influence and change within organisations 
  • the nature and practice of management; key concepts and issues relating to the management of people, organisations, financial resources and marketing variables 
  • your own learning; its development in the context of your studies; its role and impacts on your work/practice.

Cognitive skills

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

  • critique established ideas, concepts and techniques drawn from your studies, and use your knowledge to examine a wide range of leadership and management problems, including in your own work/practice* arena 
  • identify and critically assess different perspectives on and approaches to leadership and management issues, including in your own work/practice 
  • critically reflect on, evaluate and apply your learning in differing work/practice contexts. 
* Work/practice refers to the widest possible range of jobs, occupations and professions, including paid employment, self-employment, voluntary activity and other activities involving sustained physical and/or mental effort.
 

Practical and/or professional skills

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

  • use and adapt relevant business knowledge and skills to practically engage with a range of problems and issues in your work/practice arena 
  • use specific business knowledge and cognitive and key skills as a basis for significantly enhancing your work/practice and your future working life. 

Key skills

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

  • communicate information, ideas and arguments effectively using appropriate styles and language, to specialist and non-specialist audiences 
  • read and interpret information presented in a variety of forms and perform relevant tasks of analysis and evaluation 
  • apply ICT skills to search for, identify and present information appropriate to a variety of business/organisational activities 
  • plan and manage your learning towards achieving established aims and objectives, including the recognition of knowledge limitations 
  • engage in reflective, adaptive and collaborative learning.

Teaching, learning and assessment methods

You will learn independently, using printed teaching texts; directed readings from textbooks and papers; and online activities and resources.
 
We will support your learning with self-assessment questions and exercises, included in the teaching texts; programme tasks, computer-based investigations and open-ended project work; feedback and guidance from a tutor, including (depending on location) support via tutorials, telephone or email; computer conferences; and study and project guides.
 
We will assess your learning with tutor-marked assignments (TMAs); interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs), end-of-module assessments (EMAs) and formal examinations.
 
You will develop your cognitive and key skills by engaging with analysis and design exercises.
 
Cognitive and key skills are assessed by questions in the TMAs and exams that ask for concepts to be applied in given situations. You will be asked to provide evidence of using these skills in your place of work and will be encouraged to reflect on your learning and plan for improvement.
 
You will be encouraged to draw together the skills you acquire through the module-based units with those you practice in your place of work.
 
Assessment will mainly be based on the evidence you will provide of applying skills in your everyday working environment.