Goals

The goals of the Degree in Business Administration and Management are described below.

• To train professionals capable of applying the following skills in the exercise of a profession:
  • Management activities.
  • Advising.
  • Assessment in organisations.
• To train professionals capable of developing the aforementioned activities:
  • In an organisation as a whole.
  • In any of an organisation’s functional areas: production, human resources, finance, commercialisation, investment, administration and accounting.

Graduates must know how all these functional areas operate within the general context of a production unit, and within the global context of the economy. They must likewise be able to contribute to the smooth running of a business and to the improvement of its turnover.

Bearing this in mind, at the end of their training students must demonstrate that the following goals have been attained:

• The ability to identify and anticipate opportunities to promote new projects.
• The ability to assign resources.
• The ability to organise any type of information within an organisation.
• The ability to recruit, manage and motivate people.
• The ability to make decisions.
• The ability to design and execute actions in order to achieve the goals set.
• The ability to assess results.
• The ability to promote business development initiatives.

General competences

• Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
• Capacity for organisation and planning.
• Capacity for critical judgement and self-appraisal.
• Capacity for teamwork and leadership.
• Capacity for working and learning autonomously, and for interacting with other people by means of cooperation and collaboration.
• Capacity for acting with rigour, making a personal commitment and upholding quality standards.

Specific competences

• To set up and manage a company based on and in response to the changes that occur in the context in which it operates.
• To perform the aforementioned functions in the different functional areas of a company or institution.
• To draw up, interpret and audit financial reports for organisations and individuals, and to give advice about them.
• To apply instrumental techniques to the analysis and resolution of business problems, and to the decision-making process.
• To identify and interpret economic, environmental, political, sociological and technological factors within local, national and international contexts, and their effects on organisations.
• To know the moral and ethical principles that apply to businesses, as well as the legal and social responsibilities arising from personal conduct and business practices.
• To intervene in operations inherent to businesses and financial markets.

Strategic Competences

• Command of oral and written communication.
• Knowledge of a foreign language.
• Advanced use of ICTs.
• Respect for human rights, democratic principles of equality between men and women, and for the principles of peace and other democratic principles (Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October).