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Welcome to

The Fundamentals of Business & Management

This session will explore the different ways that business can promote collaboration and cooperation within organisations.

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Exploring Cooperative Management and Marketing

This session will explore the different ways that organisations can promote collaboration and cooperation within organisations.

Specifically, it will cover key topics such as “collaborative advantage”, cooperative organisations, and democratic decision-making. These will be directly linked to skills for fostering a “horizontal” and inclusive organisational culture.

It will give you an overview on how businesses can promote consensus and democratic based, collective decision-making as well as balancing revenue production with maximising social impact. It will also explore how collaborative advantage and cooperative networks can be used as sources of enhanced value creation for improving processes, services, and products.

Who is the course for?

No previous knowledge is necessary. If you are wondering whether you should pursue a Business degree, then this course will give you the opportunity to learn a fundamental topic of this subject and discover what it would be like to study this subject at degree level.

Course details

Duration: 

7 days

Weekly study: 

2.5 hours

Delivery: 

100% onlne

Certificte: 

Digital participation

Unit 1: Welcome to the course
  • Welcome
  • What are the benefits of these courses?
  • Get your digital certificate of attendance
  • How to get the most out of this course
Unit 2: Why study in the UK?
  • Find out what a UK education can do for you
  • How can Academic Action help you?
Unit 3: The Fundamentals of Business & Management - Exploring Cooperative Management and Marketing
  • Introduction
  • What is a Co-op?
  • Cooperative Principles
  • Types of Ownership
  • What is Cooperative Management?
  • Cooperative vs. Traditional Management
  • Organisational Designs
Unit 4: Our host university
  • An overview of our host university
  • Quiz
  • Book a one-to-one meeting with our university representatives

Who will you learn with?

Peter Bloom is a Professor of Management at the University of Essex
PhD from the University
Emily Dale
Regional Manager
University of Essex

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