2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5536M Small Business Growth

15 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Richard Tunstall
Email: R.Tunstall@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module will introduce you to the concepts of growing a small business and the planning, resourcing and implementation that a growth strategy requires. Your learning will be supported through interactive workshops, case studies and a live consultancy project with a small business.

Objectives

This module provides students with the knowledge and skills to explore business growth strategies and understand their own skills and attributes in managing business growth.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate in-depth critical knowledge of enterprise and entrepreneurship theories and concepts using techniques relevant to the discipline
- Apply and evaluate theory and practice in their own research, advanced scholarship or area of specific interest within the broader discipline
- Take a pro-active and self-reflective role in a group setting
- Develop professional relationships with potential collaborators, employers and / or clients

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Creatively formulate, evaluate and communicate ideas to peers, tutors and others

Subject specific
- Demonstrate the application of project management skills in the execution of individual and group tasks

Syllabus

Indicative content
Understanding an organisation
Why should a business grow and how can it grow?
Measuring business growth
Opportunities for growth
Developing the market and understanding competitors

Building a strategy for growth
Resourcing business growth (1): Operations
Resourcing business growth (2): People
Resourcing business growth (3): Finance
Feedback on your business growth plan


Learning will be supported through interactive workshops, case studies and a live consultancy project with a small business.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	10	3.00	30.00
Private study hours			120.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Students will be expected to read the academic literature, news sources and online media relating to small business growth.

Student groups will also work on applying their knowledge to a live consultancy project with a small business and prepare an individual reflective report.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Questions will be addressed during the interactive sessions. There will be an opportunity towards the end of the module to discuss your assignment progress with your tutors.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	3,000 word group report	50.00
Report	1,500 word individual reflection on learning	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resit for the module will be 100% by individual assignment.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 16/08/2024 11:44:42

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