Business Principles provides an introduction to how businesses are organised and managed. This module acquaints learners with the core elements of business, and develops their knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts. The module is designed to create awareness of the challenges faced by today’s businesses and managers.

This module will give learners an insight into the business environment in which organisations must operate; it will then move to evaluating different organisational structures that a business could operate within and how these align with the overarching business strategy; finally the importance of innovation and adapting the organisation via organisational change methodologies will be outlined.