The Business Management course is designed to meet the current and future needs of students who want to develop their knowledge of business content, concepts and tools to assist with business decision-making. Future employees, business leaders, entrepreneurs or social entrepreneurs need to be confident, creative and compassionate as change agents for business in an increasingly interconnected global marketplace. The business management course is designed to encourage the development of these attributes.
This course empowers students to explore four interdisciplinary concepts – creativity, change, ethics and sustainability from a business perspective. Business management focuses on business functions, management processes and decision-making in contemporary contexts of strategic uncertainty.
The assessment in this course allows the application of local, national and global examples to content and concepts. It will allow students to apply their knowledge of business tools and content through an innovative and potentially disruptive social enterprise and allows them to make ethical strategic decisions for their stakeholders on a disruptive good or service, in the process changing the lives of their stakeholders for the better.
Content and context are taught within four conceptual areas:
- Creativity
- Change
- Ethics
- Sustainability
The subject aims to enable learners to:
Understand and evaluate the implications of business activity in an interconnected, global market
Inquire about contemporary examples and case studies at a variety of levels from local to global, small-scale businesses to multinationals
Undertake independent and collaborative investigations into real-world business case studies
Appreciate the ideals of international cooperation and responsible citizenship
Make sense of the forces and circumstances that drive and restrain change in an interdependent and multicultural world
Synthesise and evaluate business information and data to draw conclusions and develop balanced, well-supported arguments including recommending suitable courses of action
Utilise business concepts, theories and models with confidence to gain a more sophisticated understanding of current strategic decision-making even under conditions of uncertainty
Which level do I choose?
150 hours of Study
Three lessons per week | 240 hours of study
Four lessons per week
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Internal Assessment
Three summative assessment tasks
| Internal Assessment
Four summative assessment tasks
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External Assessment
Two Examinations
Paper 1 / Paper 2
| External Assessment
Three examination papers
Paper 1 / Paper 2 / Paper 3
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