MG4A9      Half Unit
Business Strategy, Management and Analytics

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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A basic grounding in the key management disciplines for students specialising in Human Resource Management. The aim of the course is for students to acquire a general understanding of the business and managerial context in which human resource management takes place.

Course contents include management theory, business strategy, creativity and innovation management. Successful students will become intelligent discussion partners on these subjects and critical readers of strategic information and the business press.

20 hours of seminars and 20 hours of lectures in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

Students are expected to prepare for, and contribute to, the seminars. Seminars will include group work, preparing and giving presentations, case analyses, small group discussions, and self-assessment exercises.   

In its Ethics Code, LSE upholds a commitment to intellectual freedom. This means we will protect the freedom of expression of our students and staff and the right to engage in healthy debate in the classroom.

Students will complete a formative assessment. Details will be provided in class.

Grant, R. (2021) Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 11th Edition
 

Course participation (10%)

Essay (40%)

This component of assessment includes an element of group work.

Written test (50%) in January

The written test assessment will be a 48-hour online assessment.

For detailed assessment information, including all deadlines and timings, please see the relevant course Moodle page. Assessment timings will be available at the start of each term.