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This module delivers an applied perspective on international business strategy, providing students with the necessary knowledge to comprehend the principles of International Business Strategy and its practical application to Emerging Markets. Participants will gain insight into groups such as BRICS, E7, MINT, Next Eleven (N-11), and frontier markets. The curriculum offers a comprehensive framework for analysing international business strategy as an interdisciplinary endeavor within the context of global and competitive markets, thereby informing corporate decision-making. It explores the distinctions between corporate structures in Emerging Markets and those in developed economies, emphasising that successful implementation of international strategies often requires tailored approaches.Students will examine the process by which companies from Emerging Markets expand internationally, investigating both their success and failures. Furthermore, the module addresses contemporary issues relevant to international business strategy, including change management, technology strategy, sustainability initiatives, and Non-Market Strategy. The module is structured around three principal themes: Define international business strategy.Examining the international business strategy as applied to Emerging Markets.Explore how international business strategies are developed and implemented during periods of global and internal challenges.Through theoretical and practical exploration, students will understand how business strategy can be formulated in response to environmental and internal factors.

This module builds on the knowledge and skills students gained as part of the previous HRM pathway modules (e.g. OBA, HRM) to explore a range of cutting-edge issues in human resource management and human resource development. The content reflects contemporary themes and priorities. It is likely to include contributions from staff and/or invited speakers that are based on relevant special interests informed by research and/or professional engagement. There is a cohering theme of managing and enhancing employee performance, including both prescribed job performance and other desirable work behaviours such as organisational citizenship and innovative contributions. The module includes an international perspective and emphasises critical consideration of the practical implications of recent studies. 

This module is intended to introduce students to the study of banking and money. The material of the course covers two broader areas. The first encompasses the microeconomic and managerial aspects of banking, such as, the structure of incentives, bank risk management, competition, and performance. The second area covers the macroeconomic elements of banking instability, the role of banks in the monetary transmission mechanism, the interplay between banks, regulators and policy makers and the role of banks in setting interest rates as well as regulatory developments in banking.  

This research-led module introduces students to key theories of decision-making and leadership in organisational contexts. It examines the cognitive, behavioural, and social processes that shape judgement, choice, and influence, drawing on insights from psychology, organisational behaviour, and behavioural economics. Students will explore normative and descriptive decision-making models, analytical and intuitive judgement, creativity, ethics, and the role of artificial intelligence in managerial decisions. The module also covers major leadership perspectives, including trait and development debates, leader¿follower relationships, perceptual approaches to leadership, and leadership in contemporary organisations. Through theory, case studies, and applied exercises, students will critically evaluate how decisions and leadership practices affect individual wellbeing, organisational performance, and broader societal outcomes, while reflecting on their own decision-making and emerging leadership identity.

This module provides students with both a theoretical and practical understanding of global trade and international markets, considered from an international business, political economy (IPE) and management perspectives. This is done through the analysis and assessment of global trade and international markets from different angles, predominantly from the state's perspective, the international trade regime perspective (the GATT and WTO) as well as from the perspectives of regional cooperation and of business and industry.

Successful supply chain management is critical at creating competitive advantage both at an operational and increasingly at a strategic level. An effective national and international logistics infrastructure is essential to meeting customer expectations whilst minimising service costs. Development and operation of a global logistics infrastructure is a major challenge and opportunity for supply chain managers. Supply chain management is critical to managing the complexity that global supply networks bring including the issues of sustainability and integration.

This course deals with concepts, methods, and applications of marketing metrices and analytics. Unlike most marketing courses that focus on conceptual material, this course will provide analytic skills to translate conceptual understanding into metrices, key performance indicators and data visuals (e.g., charts) to guide operational and strategic marketing strategies and decisions  a skill in increasing demand in organizations today. The philosophy in this course embraces three main principles: learning by doing, end user modeling and delivering/communicating action-oriented marketing recommendations to business clients. Each topic has a software implementation along with a case study on a relevant business problem or opportunity. In short, students will analyse primary and/or secondary data to understand: - What is going on (Descriptive analytics: marketing metrices and performance measurement) - Why is it happening (Diagnostic analytics) - What is likely to happen (Predictive analytics) - What to do about it (Marketing decisions) The course will be of particular value to students planning careers in marketing and management consulting. The course is designed for students with some background in basic marketing concepts and statistics. Addressing different learning styles, the following teaching methods are applied in this course: Pre-readings, Lectures, Class Exercises, Class Discussions, Real World Cases, Group Discussions.

This module seeks to develop students' understanding of theoretical and conceptual approaches to work, and employment relations. Key actors in the employment relationship (trade unions, employers, the state) are introduced, as well as more contemporary issues in employee relations such as precarious work and the gig economy,  AI, flexible working, and the gender pay gap. The module will encourage students to critically evaluate different theoretical perspectives and provide them with a foundation to make sense of the changing labour market and working life.