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GCP-10019 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 13 December 2025

GCP-10019 - Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employment: Future Ready
Coordinator: Abhishek Behl
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733094

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

Global Challenge Pathway Global Challenge Pathway (Level 4)


Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

How is the world of enterprise and entrepreneurship changing? How do we drive innovation and be entrepreneurial in a digital world? This module
explores the evolving dynamics of business, innovation, and work in a rapidly changing world. We will examine emerging trends, such as digital
transformation, sustainability, and the gig economy, while emphasising the skills needed to navigate future challenges. By fostering critical
thinking and adaptability, you will be better prepared to lead and innovate in tomorrow’s business landscape.

Aims
This module aims to give you awareness of global challenges and the skills needed to develop your professional profile in order to secure jobs and create opportunities throughout your career in the contemporary world. It invites you to engage with enterprise by focusing on live case studies in order to explore ways in which enterprise can enhance and address global challenges positively. Through experiential learning the module aims to foster a range of skills in enterprise, professional development and employability that will be developed further in the subsequent pathway modules at levels 5 and 6. The module is the establishing step of the Enterprise and the Future of Work pathway.

Intended Learning Outcomes

discuss and compare enterprise and employability responses to global challenges across different disciplinary perspectives and amongst diverse stakeholder s: 2
identify their professional development needs in relation to the Enterprise, Entrepreneurship Employment: Future Ready module content: 2
apply their academic knowledge and learning to real-world contexts
: 1
develop practices of digital communication and collaboration in relation to Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employment: 1

Study hours

32 hours in-class active learning sessions, including timetabled group work sessions in Semester 2
75 hours group work (~ 3 hrs per week) including structured group learning activities and preparation of group assessment
43 hours independent study including preparation for independent assessment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 60%
Group Project weighted 60%
This group project will involve 3 to 5 students working in groups to identify and develop a business/innovation idea. The final submitted piece will be a presentation of 10 minutes.

2: Reference Exercise weighted 40%
An Individual assessment weighted 40%
Students will identify a future of work issue related to their interests and produce and post an individual fully researched and referenced reflective essay on the topic. Word count - 1500 words without references.

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 13 December 2025