Module BUSI46R15: Small Business Management (TAUGHT)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI46R15: Small Business Management (TAUGHT)

Tied To

• N1KY07: Entrepreneurship (Part-time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2012-2013 for details)
• N1N107: Entrepreneurship (for students entering in April 2014 only) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 for details)
• N2K307: Management (Part-Time) (for students entering between Oct 2010 - Oct 2012) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N2K507: Management (for students entering between Oct 2013 - Oct 2014) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N5K107: Marketing (Part-Time) (for students entering between Oct 2010 - Oct 2012) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 for details)
• N5K407: Marketing (for students entering in April 2013 only) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N5K507: Marketing (for students entering from April 2014) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N6K107: Human Resource Management (Part-time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2012-2013 for details)
• N6K207: Human Resource Management (for students entering from October 2013) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To enable students to:
• Acquire and demonstrate a specialist knowledge and understanding of the literature on the management and economics of small business;
• Relate this specialist knowledge and understanding to the experience of developing and running a small business;
• Develop a critical understanding of issues surrounding the development and implementation of policy support for new and small businesses

Content

• Defining the small firm
• Start-up, growth and closure
• Small Firms and the economy
• Small firms and innovation
• The development of small firms
• Supporting small firms
• The relationship between small and large firms
• Entrepreneurship
• Intrapreneurship

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students should have a critical knowledge and advanced understanding of:
• the contribution of small businesses to the economy and different sectors;
• the role of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship in small business;
• the growth, success and survival of small business;
• the financing of small businesses;
• the policy environment and factors influencing the success of policy measures.

• By the end of the module students should:
• Be able to engage in the critical evaluation of policies towards small firms;
• Be better equipped to found and run a small business

• 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

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading and specially-written self-study material. 
• The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Students receive feedback on their contributions in the workshops.