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BSc (Hons) Applied Business Psychology with Foundation Year
BSc (Hons) Applied Business Psychology with Foundation Year provides the opportunity to integrate psychology and business in order to learn how people think, behave and perform at workplace settings. This programme will equip you with the career in human resources, management, marketing, consultancy and organisational development; though not yet with the required standard to be allowed direct entry into the degree. The Foundation Year offers more academic help and confidence in the study skills, research techniques, and basic principles of psychology. It guarantees that you are well set to study on the degree level whilst building a good grasp on human behaviour within the working environment.
- Duration: 4 years in total.
- Study Mode: Full-time
- Assignment: Essays, Reports, Case studies, presentations, Research projects, Group work and Examinations.
The course is a step forward in learning the theories of psychology to their practical use in business. Among the issues that you will discuss are motivation, leadership, consumer behaviour, workplace wellbeing, organisational culture, and decision-making. By the degree completion, you will learn to analyse behaviour at workplace, enhance employee performance, support organisational change, and promote positive and ethical business practice.
Having knowledge about Human Behaviour:
Research the ways people think, feel, and act in the workplace.
Motivation and Performance at the Workplace:
See how motivation theories enhance employee satisfaction and productivity.
Dynamics of Leadership and Team:
Find out how to lead and operate teams.
Consumer Psychology: Marketing Psychology:
Learn how psychology works to affect the customer choice and purchasing behaviour.
Change and Organisational Culture:
Gain skills on how companies deal with change and establish good working environments.
Research and Data Analysis:
Learn to gather and analyse psychological information to make business decisions.
This course will take the full course of 4 years plus the foundation year. The foundation year is completed by students after which they move to the rest of the three years of the degree.
Year 0 (Foundation)
Academic Integrity and Assessment (20 credits): Learning how to do research and academic expectations at university level.
Introduction to Psychology (20 credits): Essentials of psychology.
Foundations of Business Studies (20 credits): How organisations work.
Communication and Study Skills (20 credits): The acquiring of academic writing and presentation skills.
Personal Development and Career Planning (20 credits): the process of strengths and career recognition.
Quantitative Skills in Social Sciences (20 credits): Introduction to Data Interpretation and Statistics.
Year 1
Core Psychological Theories (20 credits): Course in cognitive, social and developmental psychology.
Organisational Behaviour (20 credits): The behaviour in the work place environment.
Business Environment and Management (20 credits): The study of the way business works and competes.
Professional Skills Development (20 credits): Employability skills, teamwork and communication skills.
Ethics of Psychology and Business (20 credits): Learning about ethics and professional responsibility.
Year 2
Motivation and Workplace Performance (20 credits): The application of motivation theories to the employee performance.
Check with your advisor: Leadership and Management Psychology (20 credits): The psychology of leadership and team management.
Consumer behaviour (20 credits): Psychological factors in buying behaviour.
Heavy lifting and work-related stress management (20 credits): Management of stress and the promotion of mental health in the workplace.
Business Psychology Data Analysis ( 20 credits): Workplace research through the use of statistical techniques.
Professional Development and Placement Preparation (20 credits): Preparing an internship and a career.
Year 3
Organisational Change and Development (20 credits): Managing change in modern organisations.
HR Psychology and Talent Management (20 credits): Recruitment, selection and performance management.
Strategic business psychology (20 credits): The application of psychology to business strategy.
Applied Research Project (40 credits): The completion of an independent research project on a business psychology problem of the real world.
Career
An Applied Business Psychology degree will prepare you to work in the areas where people skills are the key to business performance.
- Various roles: Human Resources Officer: Recruitment and training, as well as employee welfare.
- The following are the roles that can be performed by the graduate: organising development consultant: enhancing performance and culture in the workplace.
- Specialist Talent Acquisition: Recruiting the right talent.
- Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Analyst: Customer psychology.
- Business Consultant: Counselling organisations on how to be more productive and work as a team. Making staff development programmes.
- Workplace Wellbeing Advisor: Helping to promote mental health programmes in organisations.
The programme will equip you with professional opportunities in psychology-related and business-related careers, and postgraduate research in the area of organisational psychology, human resource management or similar areas.
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