Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship

The Chartered Manager Degree apprenticeship is for professional senior managers/aspiring senior managers who take/will take lead responsibility for people, projects, operations and/or services to deliver long term organisational success. It is applicable to all sectors – the private, public or third sector – and all sizes of organisation. It will typically take 3 to 4 years to complete, although the exact duration will be dependent on the previous experience of the individual.

This degree apprenticeship has been designed to provide access to development opportunities for as wide a range of individuals as possible. This includes individuals who are at the start of their career and who wish to become professional managers and achieve professional recognition on achievement of the apprenticeship once they have passed their end-point assessment, as well as those who may already have developed practical experience but who wish to develop their theoretical understanding of management skills further.
The BA (Hons) Business and Management degree assessment approach ensures that apprentices meet the skills, knowledge and behaviour outcomes as defined in the apprenticeship standard.

The BA (Hons) Business and Management programme is designed to give a broad coverage of the key functions of business and management and the context in which organisations and the people within them operate.

Our Business and Management course is designed to create options for students who are interested in becoming a leader in the world of business. Through detailed theory and experience, the course will build the essential skills that employers expect from graduates allowing you to lead in many areas of business from people management, business analytics to developing a business strategy.

This course is designed to enable you to learn about the subject area, to apply your learning to form opinions and solve problems, to practice subject specialist skills with competence and confidence and to develop abilities to construct your own knowledge and attributes independently. Along with subject based knowledge and skills, you will also develop both academic and employment skills and use these in a variety of ways.

Year 1
Business and the contemporary business environment
Learn about key drivers for organisational change including fiscal and monetary policies, globalisation, technological innovations, skills, and the drive for profitability will be explored.
Marketing processes and planning
The operational aspects of marketing are explained through analysis of the design and implementation of the marketing mix in different contexts.
Business economics and data analysis
You will learn why business managers must understand and appreciate how business is influenced by these factors and how careful analysis of data can support business in making decisions to maintain and promote growth in an everchanging global economy.
Managing people and organisations
Theories of Management will be studied alongside the impact of the structure upon an organisation and the manner in which it communicates and performs its operations
Introduction to Financial Management
Provides knowledge of financial concepts and practices, and a clear identification of key financial performance indicators within business.
Essentials of small business development
Basic introduction to the components of a business plan, recognising and responding to risk, and developing an understanding of how marketing contributes significantly to successful business development.
Year 2
Project Management
Analysing key components of a successful project and how the implementation of these components are vital to the result of the project.
Managing operations and organisational change
Evaluating systems and processes which contribute to adding value for a business, analysing both traditional and contemporary approaches towards organisational change management.
Financial management and reporting for decision making
Exploration of common accounting practice, analysing and make recommendation(s) for a range of business cases and will further ensure they develop knowledge of fiscal concepts and reporting practices, to support specialist and non-specialist decision makers
Law for business
Providing a clear understanding of how the law is created, how it develops and how it is implemented in practice across a multitude of disciplines including Contract Law, Employment Law, Law of Negligence and Consumer Law.
Research methods
You will learn about research methodologies and analysing and articulating information and how research methods reflect academic conventions and standards along with ethical considerations.
Business sustainability
Understanding of how to create more sustainable industry practices, as well as a sustainable planet in which these businesses operate. The core principles and drivers of Sustainability will be identified alongside a critical understanding of the challenges around sustainability for organisations and the approaches which can be taken to overcome these.
Year 3
Globalisation and management
The global business context will be examined together with the challenges faced. Developing an understanding of their own professional impact and management approaches.
Responsibility, ethics, and sustainability
Building on the Business Sustainability module with a greater focus on exploration of the ethical issues of sustainability for the future of their sector as well as their own individual professional practice.
Procurement and the international supply chain
Understanding the management of supply chains is such a fundamental aspect of the performance of every organisation in terms of both sustainability as well as enabling the organisation to remain competitive.
Strategic management
The relationship between theories and practice will be explored. Approaches to strategic management, concepts and frameworks and issues in strategic management will be studied.
Major project
Plan a year’s activity towards a self-identified goal, then during the year demonstrate skills in researching information and finally presenting their work through both a written project and a presentation.

A variety of assessment methods are used including:

• Presentations
• Reports
• Time-constrained assessments
• Essay
• Projects
  Apprentices are also required to develop an electronic portfolio of work-based evidence