The Fundamentals of Business & Management

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.

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