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IB313 - Business Studies I: Value-Based Management

  • Module code: IB313
  • Module name: Business Studies I: Value-Based Management
  • Department: Warwick Business School
  • Credit: 15

Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

Together with the complementary module IB314 Business Studies 2, this module offers non-WBS students an introduction to key concepts in business studies.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the module, you should be able to: understand key concepts in core components of business studies; apply and integrate these concepts to analyse a practical business situation; appreciate alternative disciplinary perspectives on management; evaluate how factors both within the organisation and the broader business environment can influence strategic management decision-making; understand how strategic factors affecting the management of the business, information flow, the economic environment and employment relations can affect the ability of an organisation to cope with change; develop a critical evaluation of value-based business and management practices portrayed through exposure to organisational theories.

Timetabled teaching activities

1 x 3 hour session per week

Departmental link

http://www.wbs.ac.uk/students/undergraduate/

Module assessment

Assessment group Assessment name Percentage
15 CATS (Module code: IB313-15)
D (Assessed/examined work) 1st Assessment 15%
  2nd Assessment 15%
  IB3130 Exam 70%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

N/A

Optional
  • Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C100) - Year 3
  • Undergraduate Biological Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (C101) - Year 4
  • Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C102) - Year 3
  • Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C103) - Year 3
  • Undergraduate Biological Sciences (C104) - Year 3
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  • Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology (MBio) (C1A4) - Year 3
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  • Undergraduate Mathematics (BSc) (G100) - Year 3
  • Undergraduate Mathematics with Intercalated Year (G101) - Year 4
  • Undergraduate Mathematics (MMath) (G103) - Year 3
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  • Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics (GL11) - Year 3
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  • Undergraduate Economics 3 Year Variants (L100) - Year 3
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  • Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (L117) - Year 4
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  • Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (LM1H) - Year 4
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  • Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7ML) - Year 3
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  • Undergraduate Language, Culture and Communication (with Year Abroad) (X3Q6) - Year 4