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Contents Welcome to the Business School ................................................................................................................................ 3
1. The Business School Team ........................................................................... 4
2. Educational Aims of the Programme ............................................................ 4
Educational Aims – International Business Management ............................................................................. 4 2.1.
Programme .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
3. The Staffordshire Graduate .......................................................................... 5
Staffordshire Graduate Skills .................................................................................................................................... 5 3.1.
Staffordshire Graduate - Attributes ........................................................................................................................ 6 3.2.
4. Programme Outcomes .................................................................................. 6
5. Programme Structure.................................................................................... 7
6. Award Structures .......................................................................................... 8
BA (Hons) International Business Management ............................................................................................... 8 6.1.
6.1.1. Level C (Certificate) ................................................................................... 8
6.1.2. Level I (Intermediate) ................................................................................. 8
6.1.3. Level H (Honours) ....................................................................................... 8
7. Learning Outcomes ....................................................................................... 9
8. Final Year Project ....................................................................................... 11
General Requirements and Expectations .......................................................................................................... 11 8.1.
Intellectual Demand .................................................................................................................................................. 11 8.2.
9. University Undergraduate Modular Framework ......................................... 12
Minimum Threshold Marks ..................................................................................................................................... 12 9.1.
10. Transfer within the Scheme ....................................................................... 12
Transfer between award titles within the Scheme ........................................................................................ 12 10.1.
Appendix – Glossary of Terms ........................................................................... 14
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Welcome to the Business School
Welcome to the School of Business of APIIT Sri Lanka. You are now part of the
Business Degree programme, and we are delighted that you are one of our students.
APIIT Lanka offers its degrees from Staffordshire University. Your course of study will
therefore be internationally recognized, up to date and appropriate, will be serviced by
well qualified staff, and will also be geared to preparing you for life and employment
after your undergraduate study.
While we provide you with a range of support services and access to well qualified staff
and excellent facilities, as one of our students we expect you to work diligently and set
high standards for yourself. Besides your faculty members the academic, administration
and technical staff that you come across as part of your studies will also be delighted to
advise and support you. Your part is to take your study seriously, to set appropriate time
aside for your study, and to make full use of lectures and other scheduled class contact. It
is important to us that you are successful and that you go on to be a good ambassador for
APIIT Lanka.
You are now part of the APIIT ‘family’, and we look forward to working with you to
help you achieve your dreams.
Very best wishes,
S C Kaluarachchi
Programme Leader
Business School
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1. The Business School Team
Name E-mail
Programme Leader S C Kaluarachchi [email protected]
Module Leaders
Shurmara Fernando [email protected]
Nilusha Gallage [email protected]
Nazeefa Fawzer [email protected]
Indeevari Dodantenna [email protected]
Vindhya Nettikumara [email protected]
2. Educational Aims of the Programme
Educational Aims – International Business Management 2.1.
Programme
The BA (Hons) International Business Management award builds upon the business
management curriculum by focusing on the globalisation of business. The award
examines management functions and the business environment from the dynamics and
complexities of an international perspective. This course will give the students a solid
understanding of the issues that globalisation brings to management practice. It’s ideal if
a student wants to develop a management career in a global organisation, or if a student
wants to work in an international environment.
Students will start by studying the same modules as other business students and then
specialise by taking modules with a specific international dimension. Students will
continue to study international topics, alongside general business modules throughout the
course. Students will gain the intercultural, analytical and personal skills needed within
the global business environments.
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3. The Staffordshire Graduate
The Staffordshire Graduate is our commitment, both to potential students and
prospective employers that everyone graduating from Staffordshire University will
possess more than academic knowledge. They'll have an understanding of the real world
and how they can have an impact on it.
As a graduate of Staffordshire University you'll have the key skills of
Employability, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship – and the ability to stand out in the
job market.
As a student you'll get a whole lot more from University than just an understanding
of your subject, you'll leave with a set of attributes that prospective employers not only
look for but will value and respect.
Staffordshire Graduate Skills 3.1.
‘The Three Es’ – Employability, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship – play an
important part in our courses. Key attributes of The Staffordshire Graduate, the skills
you will gain include:
Employability
We will help you develop the talents, knowledge and personal qualities
necessary to be more likely to gain employment, have the capacity to be effective in the
workplace and successful in your chosen career.
Enterprise
Employers value enterprising people. Being enterprising involves having the
skills and ability to identify opportunities and even find new solutions to old problems.
With enterprising skills, you will be creative in your approach and understand both risk-
taking and innovation.
Entrepreneurship
Being entrepreneurial often involves calling on enterprising skills to create
new businesses and ideas and bring them to market. Being entrepreneurial also involves
thinking and behaving in a way that enables you to come up with new methods of doing
things well - and having the foresight to change career direction.
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Staffordshire Graduate - Attributes 3.2.
Discipline Expert - Have an understanding of the forefront of knowledge in
your chosen field
Professional - Be prepared to be work-ready and employable, and understand
the importance of being enterprising and entrepreneurial
Global Citizen - Have an understanding of global issues – and their place in a
globalised economy
Communication & Teamwork- Be an effective communicator and presenter
and be able to interact appropriately and confidently with a range of colleagues as well as
develop the skills of independence of thought and, where appropriate, social interaction
through teamwork
Reflective & Critical - Have the ability to carry out inquiry-based learning
and critical analysis and be a problem solver and creator of opportunities
Life Long Learner Be technologically, digitally and information literate and
be able to apply Staffordshire Graduate attributes to a range of life experiences – to
facilitate life-long learning and life-long success
4. Programme Outcomes
Knowledge & Understanding: Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key areas
of BA (Hons) International Business Management and acquisition of coherent and
detailed knowledge from its forefront of the discipline.
Learning: Demonstrate an understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of
knowledge.
Enquiry: Deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry and
initiate and carry out projects appropriate to BA (Hons) International Business
Management.
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Analysis:Describe and comment on current research and practice in BA (Hons)
International Business Management. and critically evaluate arguments, assumptions,
concepts and data (including incomplete data) to make judgments.
Problem Solving: Develop appropriate questions to achieve a solution, or identify a
range of possible solutions, to a problem and use decision making in complex and
unpredictable contexts.
Communication: Communicate and analyse information, ideas, problems and
solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Application: Apply the methods and techniques learned to review, consolidate
extend and develop BA (Hons) International Business Management solutions.
Reflection: Manage their own learning, exercise initiative, personal responsibility
and demonstrate the learning ability, qualities and transferable skills necessary for
employment or further study of a professional or equivalent nature.
Team Working
Manage and organise team working effectively.
5. Programme Structure
The International Business Management Award is offered on a full-time basis. The
course takes three years to reach BA (Hons) level. Intermediate awards of Certificate of
Higher Education and Diploma in Higher Education are available to you if you do not
wish to proceed beyond levels C (Certificate) and I (Intermediate) respectively, provided
you meet the qualification requirements. An ordinary degree is offered in the event of
difficulty in completing the Honours degree due to academic or other difficulties. The
ordinary degrees are unclassified. You need to be aware, however, that an ordinary
degree is a lower award than an Honours degree, although it is a higher award than a
Diploma of Higher Education. An ordinary degree will require the study of 60 level H
credits.
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6. Award Structures
BA (Hons) International Business Management 6.1.
6.1.1. Level C (Certificate)
Business
Skills 1
BLB10114-1
Legal Environment of
Business
BLL50000-1
Managing People and
Performance
BLB10109-1
Introduction to Business
Accounting
BSB00117-1
Business
Skills 2
BLB10115-1
Business Environment 1
BSB00118-1
Marketing Principles
BLB10153-1
General Option
(Prescribed Module
Personnel Management
in Practice)
BSB10248-1
6.1.2. Level I (Intermediate)
Critical Reasoning
BSB10177-2
Business Environment 2
BSB00119-2
Operations Management
BSB10192-2
Marketing in Practice
BLB10151-2
Managing Organisations
BSB10185-2
Learning Knowledge &
Effective Performance
BLB10050-2
International Business
BLB00005-2
General Option
(Prescribed Modules
Business Project
Management / Interactive
E-Marketing)
BSB10194-2/BLB10069-2
6.1.3. Level H (Honours)
Research Methods
BLB00015-3
Strategic Management
BLB10089-3
International HRM
BLB10025-3
Globalisation and
International Institutions
BLB00012-3
Risk Management
BSB00115-3
International Marketing
BSB10186-3
Project
BSB10183-3
General Option
(Prescribed Module
Employment Relations
and the management of
Conflict)
BLB10022-3
7. Learning Outcomes The following table gives the learning outcomes for levels one, two and three for the BA (Hons) International Business Management (Certificate,
Intermediate and Honours). On completion of each level of study, BA (Hons) International Business Management students will be able to:
Common
learning
outcome
headings
CERTIFICATE INTERMEDIATE HONOURS
Knowledge and
Understanding
Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the
underlying business functions,
concepts and principles associated with
the environments in which
organisations operate.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
the well-established principles and concepts
of international business management, and
their contemporary development with an
international dimension.
Demonstrate a systematic understanding and critical
evaluation of key aspects of globalisation encountered by
international institutions. This will include strategic and risk
management concepts to inform decision making from an
international marketing and/or HRM perspective; and an
understanding and evaluation of the characteristics and
recognised attributes necessary in developing innovative
and/or enterprising business ideas.
Learning Begin to develop lines of argument and
suggested solutions to simple business
scenarios.
Develop and exercise higher order reasoning
and thinking abilities and apply these within
the context of topics critical to the
management and marketing of international
organisations.
Analyse and critically evaluate the key theories and
developing concepts that have a pervasive influence on the
practice of international business management, especially in
a global context.
Enquiry Present, evaluate, and interpret
qualitative and quantitative business
and financial data.
Develop knowledge of quantitative and
qualitative data. Demonstrate knowledge of
the main cognitive skills and techniques of
enquiry, retrieval and organisation of
information used by international business
organisations.
Justify appropriate research methods; deploy appropriate
techniques of enquiry and conduct an investigation into a
global or functional aspect of business with a clear
international focus, or alternatively, apply knowledge and
techniques in the creation of a business.
Analysis Interpret and evaluate basic concepts
and principles of business and
management.
Demonstrate the ability to analyse and
evaluate theoretical concepts from a range of
learning knowledge, operations management
and marketing perspectives within
international organisations.
Critically evaluate strategic and risk management theories
and concepts. Analyse and critically evaluate aspects of
global institutions or international business management in
the Project module, or critically assess business processes
and the level of business success.
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Problem
Solving
Demonstrate the ability to select and
apply relevant skills to use and justify
basic concepts and theories of business
and management for solving simulated
business problems.
Demonstrate the ability to use advanced
theories and concepts, and negotiation skills,
for solving real and simulated problems
relative to international business.
Demonstrate the ability to use, analyse and appraise different
perspectives and approaches to solving complex and
interrelated business problems set in an international context.
Communication Communicate clearly in written and
oral work, and develop an appropriate
use of business and employability
terminology.
Communicate ideas effectively. Develop and
communicate reasoned arguments and
informed judgements mainly, but not solely,
in written form.
Communicate and analyse information, ideas, problems, and
solutions using appropriate forms. Demonstrate the ability to
communicate complex issues coherently.
Application Display an ability to use knowledge,
understanding and skills gained
through the core modules from a
international business management and
employability perspective.
Apply business and management knowledge
and utilise a range of transferable skills in
relation to business scenarios set in different
international contexts.
Apply, with sound justification, a range of skills, problem
solving techniques and globalisation knowledge learned
appropriately to relevant international business and decision
making scenarios.
Reflection Begin to develop independent learning
and transferable skills and take some
responsibility for learning and personal
development planning.
Develop more responsibility for learning and
demonstrate independent learning and
reflective skills. Maintain and develop a
personal development plan.
Demonstrate a high level of competence in personal
development, employability, independent learning and study
skills.
8. Final Year Project As an undergraduate student you are required to complete an individual project
comprising of a critical literature review. The purpose of this module is to allow you to
extend and deepen your knowledge of an aspect of a business-related subject area
appropriate to your award reviewing a common problem faced and the tried and tested
solutions practiced. Students will apply a range of secondary research skills
covered in Research Methods. One of the most important tasks in research is a critical
review of literature relating to a certain research issue. For a student submitting work for
assessment, there is a secondary function of a critical literature review; it is a way of
claiming credit for what you have read, and showing that you understand the broad
shape of your subject. It should validate the research that you are doing, and show
how it fits the work being done more widely in your subject area. In order to show that you deserve credit for your reading, the literature review is far more than a book list or bibliography. It is a review - in other words; a critical assessment of relevant material in the public domain, or at least as much of it is appropriate to your level of study.
General Requirements and Expectations 8.1.
A project is a study of a problem, issue, opportunity, technique or procedure or some combination of these aspects. Your project will be presented in a form of a ‘critical literature review’.
You are responsible for choosing an area to study for your critical literature review, which should be of genuine interest to you. The chosen topic / subject area may be based around your academic / professional / personal interest, but must be of relevance to your award. As a huge amount of relevant literature may be available, reviewing the literature ought to follow a systematic process, characterized by perceptive reading and an attention to detail. Be selective in your review of the literature and ensure you have a well-defined / narrow focus. Select literature relating directly to your work, as it is impossible for you to review all texts. The critical literature review should contain a discussion and critical analysis of existing literature written in your chosen topic area.
Intellectual Demand 8.2.
The following are demanded by you:
Display a keen awareness of the literature in the chosen field.
Demonstrate to the reader how your writing fits into the established research and
scholarship in your chosen subject area.
Display alternative views, so that the reader realizes that there are other ways of
looking at your material, hence the ability to think laterally and review
contributions from both within and beyond the immediate field of study.
Justify why you are researching the precise topic chosen.
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9. University Undergraduate Modular Framework
All Awards at APIIT Lanka are regulated by a set of rules, common across all
Faculties in Staffordshire University. The rules are set out in the Staffordshire University
Undergraduate Modular Framework.
Minimum Threshold Marks 9.1.
In order to achieve a pass in an undergraduate module, a minimum of 30% is
required in each component of assessment (separate components being those identified in
the weighting between assessments shown in the module descriptor). If less than 30% is
achieved in a given component of assessment and an aggregate mark is achieved, for over
all assessments, of >= 40%, then the grade point given for the module is a 3. Where the
aggregated mark is less than 40%, then the grade point given for the module is that
normally associated with the given mark. Failure of a module due to failure to achieve >=
30% in each component of assessment may still be subject to compensation and
condonement. If less than 20% is achieved in any component, then the grade point given
for the module is restricted to 1.
10. Transfer within the Scheme
If you wish to transfer from one award to another within the Scheme or between
honours and ordinary degrees, then you should talk to your Program Leader for guidance
and he/she will take you through the process involved. The following section sets out the
award specific rules governing such transfers.
Transfer between award titles within the Scheme 10.1.
You may transfer between different awards within the Scheme provided that
the set of modules that you have passed match the award structure of the award onto
which you wish to transfer and provided that you are able to demonstrate that you will be
able to study at the level required by your new award. Transfers between awards are
subject to the approval of the Program Leader. Where your set of modules does not match
the requirements of your new award then your Program Leader will advise you which
modules you will be required to pass in order to qualify for the award to which you wish
to transfer. You may be allowed to transfer onto the new award before you have a
complete set of modules that map onto the new award structure. However, any such
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transfer is strictly on the condition that you should complete such modules as are
necessary in order to make your set of modules conform to the requirements of the award
structure of the award you have transferred onto.
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Appendix – Glossary of Terms
Module A unit of study with defined learning outcomes, curriculum and assessment. The
module definition is to be found in the module specification for the module. Each
module has a number of Credits, associated with it. A single module is worth 15
Credits and notionally requires 150 hours of learning activity to complete. This
learning activity being divided between time for class contact hours with staff,
independent study and assessment. The number of allocated learning hours rises in
proportion to the number of Credits attributed to a module at the rate of 10 hour per
credit. All modules are multiples of the basic unit of 15 Credits. So, for example, a
double module will be worth 30 Credits and will have a learning time of 300 hours.
Core module This is a module that you must take and pass to qualify for a given award title or range
of titles.
Specific Option This is a module chosen from a list of Award Specific Option modules. Award Option
modules are studied in conjunction with the core modules and form the prescribed set
of modules for a particular named award.
General option This is a slot where modules can be chosen from the full list of Business modules at
the relevant level offered at APIIT Lanka (See Error! Reference source not found.),
provided the modules have not already been taken and any module specific admission
requirements are met.
Curriculum The subject content of your studies. This may refer to the content of a single module or
to the content of a package of modules.
Grade ( Point ) On completion of the assessment of a module, you will be assigned a grade for that
module in the range 0 to 15. In considering your performance at the end of a Level,
grades will be averaged to produce a grade point average for the Level (weighted by
the size of the modules).
Level This indicates the academic level at which study is to be undertaken – Certificate level
(module level 1), Intermediate level (module level 2) and Honours level (module level
3). Normally it corresponds to one year of study for full-time students. However,
students may take modules from different levels at the same time, provided that they
meet the requirements for their award.
Learning Time The total time needed to complete the classes, private study and assessments for a
module.
Programme of
Study
This refers to the collection of core and option modules which make up your Award.
Pre-requisites A pre-requisite is defined as a specific requirement that you must meet before you can
take a module. In a similar way as entry to an Award was dependent on your achieving
A-Level passes for example, for some modules you will have to be ‘qualified’ to take
them. This will normally mean studying for a module at an earlier level in the Award.
Pre-requisites are specified to make sure that you have the knowledge and skills you
will need to be successful in your chosen modules.
Scheme The term Scheme is used to refer to a collection of awards that belong together
academically. Schemes define a structure of study which ensures coverage of
fundamental knowledge and skills within a particular academic area, while permitting
some specialisation within the area.