MAR8076 : Commercial Awareness and Sustainable Business
- Offered for Year: 2023/24
- Module Leader(s): Professor D John Mangan
- Owning School: Engineering
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 10 |
| ECTS Credits: | 5.0 |
Aims
The aims of this module are:
A1: To raise the students’ commercial awareness and equip them with the basics of key business, financial and
management concepts, tools and techniques;
A2: To help students appreciate the importance of management, interpersonal and communications skills and how
these can be enhanced;
A3: To highlight the importance of sustainability and its intersection with business.
Outline Of Syllabus
The following materials will be covered in this module:
Management and Leadership; Change Management; ESG, CSR, EDI; Management Skills and Self Awareness; Business Model Canvas, Operations Management, Business Strategy, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Essentials of Finance (P&L, Balance Sheet, Ratios etc), Costing and Investment Appraisal.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 6 | 2:00 | 12:00 | Scheduled Present-in-person lectures to be Recapped. |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 3:00 | 3:00 | Completion of formative activities |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 37:00 | 37:00 | Preparation for and completion of end of module report. |
| Structured Guided Learning | Lecture materials | 1 | 7:00 | 7:00 | Online recorded lectures of the finance material |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 2 | 2:00 | 4:00 | Present-in-person - 1st: management skills & self awareness; 2nd: interpreting financial statements |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 37:00 | 37:00 | General revision, reading and consolidation of lecture notes |
| Total | 100:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
The lectures are designed to assist students in the acquisition of a knowledge base that will facilitate understanding of concepts, methods, tools and techniques.
Independent study involves:
1. Study following lectures and practicals
2. Study in preparation for the exam, which provides an opportunity to bring together relevant knowledge and
understanding and cognitive, research-related, and assessed key skills.
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | 1 | M | 100 | Individual report of 2000 words. |
Formative Assessments
| Description | Semester | When Set | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prob solv exercises | 1 | M | (1)online self awareness questionnaires & (2)exercise on interpreting financial statements |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
The material covered in the module is assessed a post module individual report of 2,000 words – this allows the student to apply the key learnings from the module to a focal organisation of their choice. The formative assessments (online self awareness questionnaires and an exercise on interpreting financial statements) will help students to apply key module learnings and also help students in formulating answers to exam questions.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- MAR8076's Timetable