Business Management with Human Resources Keele University

Overview

This Business Management with Human Resources, B.A. degree from Keele University offers the potential for you to gain a thorough understanding of how businesses operate and manage their best asset – their employees.

The contemporary business world is complex, and our curriculum reflects this. We will provide you with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of business management by focusing on key areas such as marketing, strategy, and business operations. You will evaluate different leadership styles and management practices that impact organisational culture and operations, employee experience and performance. To develop your human resource management expertise and prepare you for employment, you will explore topics including talent management, employee relations, reward management, strategic human resources practices, and learn to use industry-standard tools and techniques.

Practical, career-focused teaching and learning ensures that you can apply the theory you’re learning to real-world scenarios that will build your expertise and confidence. We will also get you thinking about sustainability and business ethics so when you begin work or start your own business you can be a force for good in the world.

Our built-in Professional and Academic Development Programme spans your entire degree. Designed to fully prepare you for securing a great job or starting a business, you will develop your professional skills, creativity, confidence, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Our aim? To ensure you graduate with clear goals and impressive experiences to show future employers or investors. You’ll benefit from Keele Business School’s strong industry connections, placement or entrepreneurship opportunities, hands-on practical experiences, and invaluable real-world insights such as through our Global Challenge Pathways.

Career opportunities:

In addition to subject specific knowledge the curriculum on our Business Management with Human Resources BA will ensure you have a strong suite of transferable skills that suit the modern work environment in jobs such as HR manager, recruitment consultant and talent development specialist. You will graduate with an entrepreneurial and questioning mindset, excellent communication skills and strong critical thinking abilities. Your subject knowledge will have improved and your confidence in your own strengths will have been enhanced through the opportunities on our Professional and Academic Development Programme, which will prepare you for employment in a variety of industries.  

Jobs that a graduate from this course could go on to do include:

• HR Administrator
• HR Officer
• HR Advisor
• HR Consultant
• Training and Development Officer
• Recruitment Officer
• Business Consultant
• Business Advisor
• Management trainee