Business and Management BA (Hons)

By using interactive seminars focused on real company cases, you’ll actively apply concepts from budgeting to cost-benefit principles — directly informing decisions with bottomline impact.

You’ll interpret complex annual statements, understanding how accounting conventions communicate performance from the perspective of the investor.

This module prepares you to guide strategy, operations and new opportunities with financial clarity and confidence. You'll grow the skills you need to produce data driven results, whether you're an entrepreneur or aspiring manager.

Concepts, principles, decision frameworks and practices are studied in relation to major aspects of operations management, including: process design, capacity and resource management, supply chain management, inventory management, lean, quality management, systems in business, project management, operations improvement, and the sustainability of operations. Any changes to this module should also be made to the following modules U24493, U24494, U24495, U24496, U24497, U24498, U24499. This module has a partiuclar focus on developing Hallmark 1; Have a critical and reflective knowledge and understanding of their subject, with elements of Hallmark 7; Be effective team players, able to provide leadership and to support the success of others, and 8; Be able to communicate clearly and effectively, in a range of forms and to different audiences.

Seminar exercises engage students in formative problem-solving activities addressing all learning outcomes. Spreadsheet skills are developed in timetabled computer laboratories through the use of supported and self-paced materials. Resources are available online on the University of Portsmouth Virtual Learning Environment Moodle. Optional weekly drop-in support sessions are available.

A weekly lecture will be supported be a weekly group seminar which are designed to enable students to explore concepts raised in the lectures and have opportunity to apply them both individually and in small groups, through a variety of real world scenarios and case studies.

This course will enable you to gain a foundation in understanding the skills you need to progress successfully through university and out into the world of work and employment at the end of your degree. This module will also incorporate the University's personal tutoring framework.

You’ll develop your employability by improving your applications, interview and workplace readiness, all while developing core skills in in research, analysis and critical thinking.

With personal tutoring and academic activities that focus on intellectual growth, you’ll build the transferable abilities to excel academically and unlock professional opportunities.

By reflecting on progress with a self-critical eye, you'll formulate ongoing development plans to help you achieve your full potential.

You’ll analyse how organisational purpose connects with strategy, governance and outcomes, and explore ways to consider stakeholder needs alongside profit.

Evaluating concepts like corporate social responsibility and circular economics, you’ll recommend how leaders can account for community and environmental issues.

By using real modern cases, you'll assess business models and strengthen critical faculties to balance complex imperatives. By the end of this module you’ll be ready to champion organisational development in an ethical, responsible and sustainable manner.

Develop core skills in financial and non-financial analysis, and learn how to critique everything from financial statements to market reports.

You’ll interpret intricate data sets and learn to identify meaningful insights to inform strategy and planning.

By blending lectures with seminars and completing coursework focused on real companies, you’ll evaluate data, identify issues and improve decision quality. With regular feedback, you’ll bridge the gap between theory and practice.

You'll finish this module ready to tackle problems with an analytical eye.

You'll explore the major factors, issues and forces that shape trade and operations across borders. Using current affairs coverage, you'll participate in discussions to demonstrate your appreciation for the socioeconomic, cultural and institutional contexts that impact the international marketplace. By the end of this module you'll have a crucial perspective on how global businesses navigate complex realities while sustaining success, so that you're ready to enter today's international firms.

By exploring world class research and real entrepreneurial experience, you'll gain an understanding of essential issues in entrepreneurship and small business management.

You'll work with your fellow students in entrepreneurial teams, developing innovative business ideas, and using the experience to build a range of entrepreneurial and employability skills.

Discover corporate financial management as you analyse real-life financial issues to refine your career skills.

By blending authentic case studies with workshop activities focused on real companies, you’ll evaluate data, identify issues and improve decision quality. With regular feedback, you’ll bridge the gap between theory and practice.

You'll explore how digital transformation and new technologies are changing finance in business, so that you graduate ready to excel as an agile financial manager.

Blending theory with real-world case studies, you’ll explore core activities like talent attraction, development, engagement and retention, and understand how to add value through evidence-based practices.

With assessments that focus on applying concepts to workplace scenarios, you’ll strengthen your ability to critically evaluate policies, identify issues, and propose relevant solutions that uphold ethics and equality.

When you finish this module, you’ll champion employee experience as an HR expert, and be ready to lead and collaborate effectively as a self-managing people leader who drives team and organisational success.

Successful organisations rely on a continual stream of new and improved products/services to maintain the relevance and competitiveness of their brands. This module will examine contemporary issues affecting the successful development of new products and services. For example how do firms cope with the threat of counterfeit products? And what should be their response. In the Public Sector developing new products and services is equally critical. The process for so doing however is very different. What should organisations do? In addition there is the need for rigorous business analysis to ensure that new products are financially viable.

This module will address the following Hallmarks of a University of Portsmouth graduate through learning and assessment: - Think independently, analytically and creatively, and engage imaginatively with new areas of investigation within and across discipline boundaries. - Be able to synthesise new and existing knowledge to generate ideas and develop creative solutions of benefit to the economy and society. - Be informed citizens, with a sense of responsibility allied to a commitment to ethical practice and social justice issues, such as equality, respect and sustainability.

Risks include natural and man-made events, fraud, corruption, counterfeiting and societal risks (e.g. conflict minerals, child labour). Students locate and critically analyse information about supply chains and recent risk events to investigate and evaluate the principles and practices of supply chain risk management. Students synthesise the case studies in groupwork and individual work, and use graphics, text and presentation slides to document and communicate them.

You'll examine laws governing contracts, negligence and employment as you begin to graps sophisticated concepts and objective perspectives. Using case studies that mirror modern workplaces, you'll tackle complex analysis and communication as you research up-to-date legal sources, think critically and problem-solve. This immersive module prepares you to approach workplace legal dilemmas in an analytical yet nuanced manner, so you'll finish this module with skills that are attractive in future business managers and employment law professionals.

The module will seek to outline a range of business modelling techniques that allow for improved operational designs under conditions that usually require the allocation of scarce resources using case studies.

Explore emerging technologies from artificial intelligence to cryptocurrencies — and analyse models and strategies for online sales, marketing and operations.

You'll discover the intricate development processes, innovative models, and cutting-edge applications reshaping modern business landscapes.

By engaging in critical discussions on business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce, you'll prepare to navigate the social, legal, and ethical dimensions shaping digital transactions.

You'll finish this module with an entrepreneurial spirit as you embark on hands-on projects by crafting dynamic websites that are tailored to real-world clients.

This module will be delivered twice weekly in 2-hour workshops. The emphasis of this module will be on student centred learning activities, problem solving case studies and computational aspects. Employability skills are embedded throughout the course which requires communication skills to be used weekly both verbally and written, time management and research skills are paramount to progression whilst reflection is encouraged at key stages of the course.

You'll critically analyse external trends alongside theories and practical techniques for enhancing employee skills, engagement and organisational adaptability.

By examining real-world cases, you'll understand the role of learning and development activities in shaping HRM practices and explore innovations in areas such as e-learning and data-driven capability building.

This module provides crucial context for advancing your HRD expertise.

You'll develop a robust understanding of the key principles and theories in managerial economics, including the tools you need to make decisions under uncertainty. You'll explore public policy around private organizations, helping you grasp real-world applications. By reviewing academic literature, you'll make your own policy recommendations and compare theories managers use when making choices. And through assessment and discussion, you'll interpret the effectiveness of these theories in an international business setting. You'll learn trending tools such as network analysis tools and finish this module well-trained in highly-relevant policy tools.

Gain hands on experience putting theory into practice, and using product management tools and frameworks to develop your own creative new product idea.

With assessments centered on analysing real organisations, you’ll evaluate decisions related to resourcing, positioning and launch - leaving you equipped to prepare watertight business cases for investment.

Upon completion, you'll have the strategic vision and product innovation skills to help brands create a portfolio of profitable new products.

You'll analyse case studies to build practical skills for decision making, planning and control in global networks. Working in a diverse team, you'll review key principles from sourcing to delivery while developing skills like communication, autonomy and adaptability. You'll apply a range of techniques to critically evaluate purchasing issues and present effective solutions. You'll finish this module ready interpret the information, tools and frameworks that support ethical, resilient supply chains.

By appraising issues at business and corporate levels, you'll develop expertise in applying strategic frameworks to identify options.

You'll examine theory, weigh evidence and propose strategies as you develop practical skills for issue resolution and driving strategic change.

By the end of this module you'll be ready to evaluate propositions critically, and to recommend implementations to real-world challenges.

These key skills include:

• Research and critical analysis skills
• A range of communication skills (written & oral)
• Problem solving (quantitative and qualitative) skills

The module addresses UoP Hallmarks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8.

It requires critical engagement with appropriate literature, sound choice of research methods and carrying the planned approach into practice to produce a piece of independent research.

Students will be supported through a mix of large group sessions, workshops and individual appointments to support them to develop a research idea and to realise it as a piece of written work. Individual appointments will be arranged between supervisor and student.

It requires critical engagement with appropriate literature, sound choice of research methods and carrying the planned approach into practice to produce a piece of independent research.

Students will be supported through a mix of large group sessions, workshops and individual appointments to support them to develop a research idea and to realise it as a piece of written work. Individual appointments will be arranged between supervisor and student.

This empowering module develops your analytical abilities as you investigate a topic linked to industry trends or academic interests. With workshops and 1:1 support, you'll formulate intriguing questions, engage with literature, select robust methods and collect insightful data. We cultivate an enterprising spirit, applying knowledge in innovative ways. The highlight is conceiving and executing your own ethical study. You'll reflect critically on the research process, ultimately producing a dissertation demonstrating intellectual curiosity.

Examples of past projects are: developing options for a bank for use of their banking halls for community financial education; creating a strategy for a facilities management firm to improve their marketing; helping a social enterprise to find ways to grow their user base with new service offerings. You'll develop skills in teamwork, project management, design thinking and consultancy, and learn to practically apply business concepts from across your degree studies. After an introduction to the organisation, your client will provide ongoing direction and guidance, and you'll be giving them regular progress updates. For most of the time, you'll be part of an independent, diverse team, managing priorities to achieve the project aims. You'll be supported throughout the module by your seminar tutor. Much of your learning will be off-campus, meeting key stakeholders and conducting tasks such as customer surveys and interviews. We encourage an experimental and entrepreneurial approach, and you'll learn key skills in the seminars and online lectures. The coursework is a mix of 60% group work and 40% individual assessment.

You’ll critically evaluate traditional and contemporary leadership models, analysing debates around topics like management versus leadership.

By blending theory and practice, you'll use leadership activities to strengthen your awareness of your own abilities and identify your development areas.

You’ll compare approaches and learn how to apply ideas contextually with real-world cases. And with assessments that build your personal leadership plans, you’ll leave well-equipped to motivate, empower others and handle modern challenges.

The assessment includes a presentation, an individual report and 90 minute exam.

Completion of this module will allow students to reach an informed opinion on the basis of the empirical findings of their independent business research.

Exploring the models and best practices related to ideation, development and launch, you’ll understand the processes that bring ideas to market. 

Analysing factors from sustainability to globalisation, you’ll tackle the contemporary issues impacting development in the modern landscape. This module will equip you with understanding to give you a cutting edge in the jobs market.

With assessments focused on addressing real-world cases, you'll boost your strategic skills to manage initiatives smoothly from vision to rollout, leaving you prepared to champion disruption responsibly across industries ahead.

The module will be delivered by means of lecture, debate, analysis, group and individual problem solving, case studies and discussion and independent work.

All the identified skills in the LO's will be developed through seminar activities and will be utilised in tackling the assessments for this module.

You'll explore configuration considerations, relationship dynamics and ethical imperatives to discover how aligned flows of information, goods and finances enable organisational success. By evaluating real chains that span multiple geographies, you'll assess decision trade-offs to boost productivity, agility and sustainability. You'll finish this module ready to lead enterprises to new heights and lead on value creation.

Explore how brands, communications and incentives can alter behaviours from sustainability to social justice. With a focus on ethical issues, you'll evaluate tactics to encourage conscious consumption and civic action, and learn to develop hard-hitting campaigns that confront to some of society's most pressing challenges. This module empowers you to pursue purpose as well as profit, and prepares you to use your marketing skills as a force for good.

The Module makes use of case examples to review applicable theory and frameworks to illustrate the combined roles of Continuous Improvement (CI), Organisational Learning (OL), Change Management, and the importance of a Creative Environment (CE) as a springboard for innovation.

This module will develop your knowledge and understanding in the application of ideas, methodologies, processes, and techniques for improving and sustaining organisational performance. The module emphasises the operationalising of business and functional strategy and focuses on how to facilitate and sustain successful change.

The module evaluates the cultural, behavioural and human elements, and considers the role ¿people¿ have in leading and being part of successful and sustainable improvement.

The module takes an applied approach, focussing on contemporary issues within the sports industry through the lens of economics, finance and governance. Topics covered include: Competitive balance in sporting contests, demand for live events, cross subsidisation between leagues, match outcome forecasting, financial sustainability, return on investment, streams of income, corruption, and governance.

You'll critically examine the factors driving discrimination while evaluating methods to reduce imbalance.

With social justice as a cornerstone, you'll actively apply perspectives from psychology and sociology to examine workplace cultures and identify meaningful change opportunities.

Using real-world cases, you'll explore nuances in power dynamics and discuss the barriers facing disadvantaged groups.

You'll finish this module with a heightened awareness of inclusion issues, both systemically and interpersonally, and be prepared to positively shape your future organisation and drive towards equitable participation and belonging.

Use flexible project management tools that meet industry standards, and learn to differentiate between transformative initiatives and business-as-usual processes.

By evaluating real-world cases, you’ll analyse the contextual factors and stakeholder dynamics that position certain projects as strategic investments. With an outcome-oriented mindset, you’ll appreciate how disciplined planning, communication and risk mitigation leads teams to mobilise resources for impactful delivery.

This module equips you with a versatile project management toolkit and a strategic perspective that is highly valued across sectors.

It explores the responsibilities and boundaries of businesses in a range of contemporary environmental and social issues and in the context of differing ethical frameworks. In this module we will also investigate how areas ranging from business ethics, law, politics, economics, strategy and management affect our understanding and practice related to responsible and sustainable business. Topics addressed in this module include, but will not be restricted to: foundation in business ethics, stakeholder theory, definitions and conceptions and practical applications of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability.

Topics will be introduced through the use of tutor led discussion and directed, referenced material. The sessions will utilise a mixture of case studies, problems and discussion themes (elements of which will be undertaken in a group setting). The module is assessed through a 90 minute exam and 10 minute group presentation.

Completion of the year abroad helps achieve all learning outcomes of this module. The student will be required to submit evidence of learning, cross-referenced to the agreed learning outcomes as set out in the Learning Agreement. This will include a Transcript of Record from a host university to be submitted at the end of the study abroad placement . Students will need to have obtained 70% of credits taken in order to pass (LOs 1, 2, 3). In borderline cases of pass/fail for study abroad an assessment of 2000 words will also need to be submitted and considered. This applies to all courses where the year Abroad is taken in the second year of study. The BA International Business students will also need to submit a compulsory ePortfolio under the form of a Google Site at the end of their year abroad even if they have passed everything the their prospective institution(s) and have obtained all their credits.

After your second or third year, you can do an optional work placement year to get valuable longer-term work experience in the industry.

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your aspirations, and you’ll get mentoring and support throughout your year of work.

When you graduate after successfully completing a placement year, your degree transcript and degree certificate will state that your degree is `in the sandwich mode'.