The BA (Hons) Global Management with Pathways is carefully structured to offer you an integrated and holistic approach to management studies. It builds your skills across four complementary areas of management practice, after which you follow a specialist pathway. The programme not only taps into current trends, but also looks to the future, allowing you to study subjects that are highly relevant in today’s competitive workplace and prepare to manage changing future trends. You will learn the key skills, such as critical thinking and negotiation that are vital to current and future business leaders. You will learn to manage uncertainty and assess risk and become a confident decision-maker. We encourage you to challenge established pre-conceptions and critically question the world around you, developing both resilience and adaptability. All business organisations rely on enterprise and innovation to ensure their sustained growth and ability to adapt and respond to challenges. It is this enterprising spirit that enables managers to turn their business into a market leader, shaping the next product or service innovation. This pathway enables you to develop your enterprise skills and test your capacity for entrepreneurial endeavour. From exploring how to launch new ventures, to examining the role of mobile technologies and digital organisations, you will have the opportunity to combine theory and practice, drawing on the discipline of entrepreneurship in creating new start-ups. The Enterprise and Innovation pathway harnesses and develops a variety of transferable skills, including problem-solving, ideation and innovation. You are encouraged to become an agile agent for change, learning techniques that channel entrepreneurialism and creativity in the context of business management. With a strong ethical focus on the commercial activities of global business and brands, cultural diversity and social innovation, this pathway simulates real-world scenarios to enable you to develop practical know-how as well as analysing the theory.

This pathway lets you realise your aspiration of becoming an entrepreneur and innovator. The particular skills and know-how that you develop will put you in great stead to plan and implement a venture of your own and launch it in a variety of markets. This pathway will also prepare you to advise others on how to set up their ventures, from generating an idea to drafting business plans and launching the business. There is also scope to develop new opportunities for family owned organisations: to diversify the portfolio or generate growth through innovation.