NGO Education Survey

MM1F10-Student Enterprise

This is a dynamic module introducing students to new enterprise development and entrepreneurial thinking through a focus on experiential learning.

MM1F11-People and Organisations

This module is intended to provide a foundational understanding of Organizational Behaviour. It will help the students gain a solid and multi-disciplinary understanding of how human and organisational dynamics interact based on psychological, social and organizational influential theoretical perspectives that are necessary for Business School students in order to develop a complicated “reading of” organizations.

MM270-Practice of Entrepreneurship

This is a dynamic and interactive module aiming to provide students with the entrepreneurial skill and confidence they would need to put plans into action. Students gain understanding of the practice of entrepreneurship as informed by theory through the learning materials. This will include exposure to the experience of successful entrepreneurs. Students are given a solid understanding of the realities of business start-up.

MM301-Effectual Entrepreneurship

This module examines the subject of Effectuation and its application to the "entrepreneurial method." Effectuation is a logic of thinking used by expert entrepreneurs to build successful ventures. Effectuation is an idea with a sense of purpose - a desire to improve the state of the world and the lives of individuals by enabling the creation of firms, products, markets, services, and ideas. Effectual reasoning is a type of human problem solving developed from a cognitive science based study of 27 founders of companies ranging in size from $200M to $6.5B. Effectuation articulates a dynamic and iterative process of creating new artefacts in the world. Effectual reasoning is a type of human problem solving that takes the future as fundamentally unpredictable, yet controllable through human action; the environment as constructible through choice; and goal as negotiated residuals of stakeholder commitments rather than as pre-existent preference orderings. Effectuation is a logic of entrepreneurial expertise. What makes great entrepreneurs isn't genetic or personality traits, risk-seeking behaviour, money, or unique vision. Effectuation research has found that there is a science to entrepreneurship and that great entrepreneurs across industries, geographies, and time use a common logic, or thinking process, to solve entrepreneurial problems. Effectuation is a logic of entrepreneurial expertise that both novice and experienced entrepreneurs can use in the highly unpredictable start-up phase of a venture to reduce failure costs for the entrepreneur.

MM336-The Evolution of Entrepreneurship

This module examines theories of entrepreneurship and how it has been practiced from the 19th to the 21st century. It explores the context in which entrepreneurs operate and the strategies that they have developed in order to survive.

MM339-Strategic Human Resource Management

This module examines how companies select, motivate, develop and manage people at work, and appraises the relationships between business performance, HRM and employee welfare.

MM379-Social Enterprise

This is an interactive and practical module aiming to inspire students to social entrepreneurship by giving them a comprehensive introduction to the social enterprise sector. Students will be engaged in consultative project work, applying creativity and business acumen to issues faced by social enterprise organisations across Berkshire.

MM380-Managing Operations and Processes

Managing Operations and Processes covers key concepts and theories within the areas of operations management, service operations, process management and project management. It is designed to introduce students to the challenges facing organisations in the delivery of goods and/or services and to explore current approaches to meeting those challenges.