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Business Management
Key Information
Why study this course?

This course asks you to reflect critically on what you learn about
business, to challenge received wisdom, and to think for yourself
about the theories you encounter.
There’s a specialist approach to Business Management at Keele
which distinguishes it from traditional business studies. It emphasizes
independent thinking, and examines those places where business comes
into contact with social-scientific and philosophical disciplines. You’ll
explore concepts and debates in organisational behaviour, accounting,
marketing, and human resource management, including decision making
behaviour across the private and public sectors. You’ll learn to reflect
broadly on situations and to contextually apply what you know. This
dual honours programme could be very successfully combined with law,
human geography, finance, politics or psychology.

Indicative modules

First year
• Management in Context
• Introduction to International
Business
Second year
• Organisational Behaviour
• Social Theory at Work
• Operations and Quality
Management
Third year
• Business Strategy
• Leading Change
and Entrepreneurship
• Contemporary Issues
in Management

What will this mean
for my future?

You’ll graduate as a confident,
analytical thinker – a skill
very much in demand among
employers. You’ll be interested in
this course if you’d like to pursue
a career in management or selfemployment. You could choose a
career in the commercial, public
or charitable sectors. With or
without further study, you might
eventually work as a management
or IT consultant, investment
analyst, chartered management
accountant, banker, financial
advisor or statistician, or in
the civil service or in marketing
or sales.

Course type
Dual honours

For information on dual
honours combinations
please visit www.keele.
ac.uk/ugcourses or page 158

Course duration
Three years

Indicative entry
requirements
BBB or ABC

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

Study abroad
Yes

Kieran Weller

Business Management
and Human Resource Management, graduated 2015
The thing which really set Keele apart for me was the chance to study a dual honours
degree . This makes the course more varied and engaging and employers really like it.
It's no great secret that a degree doesn't guarantee you a job, but as a student at Keele
there is so much that will help you stand out from the crowd. In my final year – with the
help of the amazing careers and employability team at Keele – I was offered a place on
the Morrison's Retail Management Graduate Programme. This is a fantastic fast-track
scheme with amazing opportunities for development and progression.

For more course information please visit

keele.ac.uk/kms

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