BEMM265: Sustainability and Behaviour Change
This module provides a comprehensive understanding of sustainability, social change, and behaviour change theories and their real-world application in promoting social and environmentally responsible behaviour and sustainable choices at personal, organizational, community and institutional levels. It covers cutting-edge research in fields such as marketing, economics and psychology that examine the most effective strategies for promoting sustainable behaviour, including promoting ethical consumption and healthy lifestyles. The module utilises the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically responsible consumption, gender equality, and quality education, as a framework for introducing course content.
Module aims - intentions of the module
- Provide students with a comprehensive understanding of sustainability, social change, and behavioural change theories, and how to apply these theories to real-world situations to promote sustainability and behaviour change at different levels: personal, organizational, community and institutional.
- Introduce students to cutting-edge empirical research in fields such as marketing, psychology and economics that examine the most effective strategies for promoting sustainable behaviour.
- Encourage students to take a critical approach and designing effective interventions to promote sustainability and behaviour change in real-world situations.
- Help students understand the role that behaviour changes play in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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BEMM384: International Business Plan
The International Business Plan Experience is designed as a cap-stone course that will help you to integrate the knowledge that you have gained over the course of terms one and two and apply that knowledge towards a Business Plan model. Building from the foundational and applied knowledge that you have developed over terms one and two from the disciplines of Marketing, Accounting , Management, Leadership , , Entrepreneurship, and International Business, you will be offered the opportunity to write an individual business plan. This project will use an applied, simulated, data-driven approach to understanding an international business issue. This practice-based approach will help to equip you with the skills research consultants and brand managers use in developing international business strategy.
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BEMM388: People Management
This module explores the dynamics of behaviour in an organisation. You will address how to identify and understand behavioural patterns and how to develop skills in managing this behaviour in ourselves and others. Understanding behaviour is fundamental to effective management and personal development. Organisational behaviour (OB) pervades all other activities in an organisation as long as people are involved in it. You will examine our everyday understanding of behaviour and explore new insights into OB in a theoretical and practical manner. No prior study of OB is required.
- Provide you with an understanding of behavioural theories in the context of organisations, at the individual, group and organisational level.
- Enable you to translate behaviour theory into practice, through applied work
- Develop your confidence in assessing and managing your behaviour and the behaviour of others that you can take into the workplace.
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BEMM839: Unlocking Innovation
Research demonstrates that innovative organisations outperform those that fail to innovate, whatever environments they are operating in. Innovation is often misunderstood as a distinctive "flash of genius," but for successful organisations, it is a disciplined management process essential for survival in a volatile global economy.
Unlocking Innovation serves as the backbone of your study of innovation and its management, moving beyond buzzwords to master the fundamental mechanics of bringing new value to life. In the module you will adopt the core process model (Search, Select, Implement, and Capture) to navigate the journey from a raw idea to a market-ready reality. You will learn how to scan the environment for opportunities (Search), make tough strategic choices on where to invest resources (Select), manage complex project development (Implement), and sustain value from your efforts (Capture).
The module bridges the gap between academic theory and practical application. Whether you aspire to launch and scale a disruptive start-up or drive transformation within an established multinational or public sector organisation, you will develop the "dynamic capabilities" required to manage risk, navigate uncertainty, and turn global challenges into competitive advantages.
The management of innovation is professionalising fast. This is your essential toolkit for becoming a proactive innovation manager in a digital, sustainability-focused world.
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HPDM194: Management and Leadership in Global Healthcare
In this module, you will explore the theoretical knowledge and practical skills that contribute to effective management and leadership in complex healthcare settings. Through a comparative approach to analysing global healthcare systems, you will reach into the available evidence base and reflect on multi-disciplinary perspectives on areas such as integrated governance, communication, project management, self-management and decision-making in healthcare. You will critically appraise principles of leadership and followership to understand how you may most effectively lead.
You will examine how to understand and engage with human behaviour in a changing healthcare environment, and through understanding decision making theory, critically appraise the conditions needed to make a collaborative decision. By the end of the module, you will be equipped with a series of practical tools that will assist you in offering safe, effective and sustainable system of healthcare for your patients.
The aim of the module is to provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge, behaviours and attitudes to enable you to manage and lead multi-professional teams within a complex system of care.
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HPDM195: Leading Change in Global Healthcare
In this module, you will develop a critical awareness of the different ways of working with multiple stakeholders to change practice, implement innovation, and improve health care. You will develop skills in Quality Improvement and critically consider how routine data, the communication of knowledge, and reflective practice can contribute to achieving evidence-based change in health services. You will consider the need for change in the healthcare setting in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and what this means for leadership and service delivery at a local level. The module will enable you to develop a detailed strategy for achieving change in an area of healthcare practice. You will critically consider how research evidence, learning from reflection, and locally generated data can be integrated to achieve evidence-based change in practice.
You will develop the skills to use Quality Improvement tools and techniques as well as identifying and appraising the leadership skills and personal qualities required to do so. The module will enable you to strategize for achieving change in an area of healthcare practice. You will reflect on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 agenda, including global leadership examples in healthcare (including the NHS). You will critically consider how research evidence, learning from reflection, and locally generated data can be integrated to achieve evidence-based change in practice.
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HPDM196: Future Health
With a focus on outcomes-based healthcare, epidemiology, public health and prevention of disease, this module will consider the possibilities and effects of different healthcare systems, going beyond data analytics and artificial intelligence to look at societies' expectations and the way systems will adapt and evolve. You will consider the role of digital health, and how to manage and evaluate telehealth/digital health/IT related change.
In this module, you will explore future healthcare needs and investigate how complex healthcare systems and data analytics using real time metrics can be harnessed to bring about sustainable, equitable improvements in care and public health across the world. You will take an explicit and in-depth view of epidemiological principles, disease surveillance, and health promotion strategies to consider public health responses for global disasters (such as the pandemic; SDGs). You will appraise the potential of data analytics to transform the quality and value of healthcare 'from bedside to board' through patient-centred and consumer-led approaches, identify drivers to transform existing linear healthcare structures into complex systems, and consider the changing role of the human professional by exploring where humans add value to healthcare and where smart devices know patients better than their carers.
In this module you will:
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HPDM197: Global Healthcare Finance and Ethics
In this module you will explore the sources, uses and management of finance in a global healthcare setting. The use of accounting and other information systems to support decision making and service improvements will be explored, with a focus on behavioural as well as financial influences. You will gain a broad understanding of the fundamental elements of healthcare finance, costs and budgets in an organisation.
This will be supported by an introduction to medical ethics in relation to resource allocation and financial decision making - from the perspective of the population and the individual patient, at a local, national and international level. Sustainable finance will be considered, incorporating environment, social and governance factors which are related to financial decisions. You will consider issues relating to sustainable finance such as greenwashing, sustainability ratings, and environment social governance risk, along with practices which support the Sustainable Development Goals.
The perspective of health economics will be addressed with consideration given to issues such as healthcare supply and demand, differences in healthcare financing models across the globe, and the integration of health economics principles into healthcare policy and decision-making to maximise impact on health outcomes (in alignment with the sustainable development goals).
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HPDM198: Improving Care in Developing Nations
You will build the skills needed to support communities in developing nations to improve health outcomes through a collaborative solution-focused format, looking at practical solutions to current and future health issues, including those made worse by climate change. The content will include consideration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with a global perspective and how they relate to you.
This module will be ideal if you are from clinical and non-clinical backgrounds hoping to develop a portfolio career including humanitarian or development work, if you are keen to develop innovative solutions to health priorities, or if you are intending to return to work in health leadership and management roles, either in developing or mature health economies. The multispeciality format makes this suitable for all health-related disciplines and the format will allow for remote online as well as face-to-face teaching.
This module is a unique opportunity for you in that it allows students to study alongside faculty from around the world.
This module will help you develop key critical thinking and management skills in the planning and delivery of new strategies to manage emerging and current health issues, including those related directly or indirectly to climate change. You will consider alignment of the sustainable development goals with local issues.
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