Business plays an important role in society. Businesses and entrepreneurs create wealth, prosperity, jobs and choices which benefit the country and its citizens. Businesses operate in a global and dynamic world and if you want to work in a business or start your own company you must have an understanding of how this works.
The Business Management course allows you to understand how businesses are created and how entrepreneurs make a success from their initial ideas. You will develop employability skills such as Creativity and Innovation, Research, Evaluating and Decision Making, Team Working, ICT Skills and Communication Skills.
The course allows you to analyse business problems and to understand how businesses resolve these problems and expand. ICT skills are developed throughout the course and involve creating a business plan, designing an advertising campaign, preparing recruitment documents e.g. job description, preparing a Cash Budget on a spreadsheet and researching on Business Websites.
Careers:
Business Management can be studied at College or University and is often combined with other subjects such as Finance, Mathematics, Leisure, Computing Science, Accountancy, and Law.
Some of the career options open to you with a Business Management qualification are –
- Management Teaching
- Finance and Banking Sport and Fitness
- Insurance Hospitality Management
- Local Government Accountancy
- Retail Computing and ICT
- Starting up your own business Police
