Module BUSI42515: BUYER BEHAVIOUR AND MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Department: Economics, Finance and Business (Business)

BUSI42515: BUYER BEHAVIOUR AND MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To provide a comprehensive introduction to the specialised area of buyer behaviour and the management of customer - centric Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategies.
• To develop advanced conceptual and empirical skills;
• To equip the student with the advanced conceptual and practical skills needed to successfully develop a professional multimedia marketing communications plan.

Content

• Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and the Customer-Oriented Organisation;
• Customer Behaviour Analysis - a historical perspective;
• Marketing communications and the purchasing environment;
• Attitudes, emotional responses, and the buyer's learning history;
• The behavioural perspective model - an integrative framework;
• Promotional activities, information processing and the buying decision;
• Marketing communications and the Stone Age brain - an evolutionary perspective;
• Individual versus organisational buying decisions;
• Managing marketing communications - predicting and controlling buyer behaviour.

Learning Outcomes

• To have an advanced understanding and critical appreciation of customer responses to the products and services of everyday life, and to the marketing of those products and services.
• To have a critical appreciation of the complex nature of the customer decision-making process and the methods of studying these processes, together with the challenges marketers face in seeking to influence that process.

• To have acquired the specialised skills needed to develop a comprehensive marketing communications strategy that is founded upon a grounded knowledge of how and why customers behave as they do.

Enhanced skills of: written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; using initiative; computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The learning outcomes will be achieved through a combination of lectures, guided reading, and group discussion of case studies.
• The assessment of the module, by written assignment, is designed to:
• test the aquisition and articulation of knowledge;
• test conceptual understanding and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Student presentations, case study preparation.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University