2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LLLC1425 Business Environment

20 creditsClass Size: 30

Module manager: David Gilding
Email: d.gilding@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Sep to 31 Jan View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is mutually exclusive with

LUBS1850

Organisational Behaviour

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module will introduce you to a broad range of business concepts, including organisational structure, stakeholder analysis and national culture. You will gain an appreciation of the external environment and how this can impact on a range of individual organisations, industries or economies. These external factors include changes in the national and global economies, political factors and developments in technology.

Objectives

- To introduce students to business organisations and business environments
- To examine how national and global economic change affects businesses.

Learning outcomes
On completion of the module you will be able to:
- Explain the inter-relationship between organisations, management and the wider business environment
- Examine the impact of the external environment on a specific organisation
- Analyse the inter-relationships between organisational structure, culture and the wider business environment
- Discuss the relationship between the key components of the global economic environment

Skills outcomes
-Identify and describe the contrasting elements of organisational type, structure and culture.
-Identify key stakeholders of an organisation.
-Perform SWOT and PESTLE analyses

Syllabus

-Types of public and private sector organisations (profit and not-for-profit organisations)
-Organisational structures
-Organisational cultures and behaviour
-The political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, legal and ecological dimensions to an organisation's external environment
-Stakeholder analysis
-The impact that a change in national and global economic systems can have on the competitive environment

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	13	1.50	19.50
Private study hours			180.50
Total Contact hours			19.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

- Reading: 81.5 hours
- Critical reflection on practice: 39 hours
- Assignment preparation: 20 hours
- Assignment Writing: 20 hours
- Examination preparation: 20 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Through regular workshops, monitoring of student contributions, formative feedback and the staged submission of coursework.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
In-course Assessment	2 hour exam	50.00
Essay	2,000 words	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 31/03/2016

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