- UCAS course code
- N201
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
BSc Management
- Typical A-level offer: AAA
- Typical contextual A-level offer: ABB
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: BBB
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall with 6,6,6 at HL
Fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £31,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.
Additional expenses
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Scholarships/sponsorships
The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England.
In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students.
These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.
The School will also award a number of International Stellar Scholarships to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who exceed AAA and/or have supplementary qualifications (such as EPQ) will receive additional consideration.
Additional eligibility criteria apply - please see our scholarship pages for full details.
Course unit details:
Equality and Fairness at Work
Unit code | BMAN31652 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 3 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
The course examines different forms and sources of work and employment inequality. The course is also concerned with fairness and ethics in the workplace and explores barriers and enablers of equality, bullying, sexual harassment, and well-being and stress in the workplace. We explore recent employment developments and how these may be linked to the disadvantage facing some social groups, particularly through examining precarious work and the polarisation of employment in dominant sectors of the economy. The course brings a broad analytical approach, focusing not only on labour market and institutional dynamics of inequality, such as gender pay gap and inequalities facing particular social groups, such as ethnic minorities and migrants, but also explores these issues at the level of the individual and the workplace.
Pre/co-requisites
Aims
The general aim of the course is to promote an understanding of the societal, labour market and organisational processes that create and sustain inequalities and to explore ways of achieving more equitable and fairer workplaces. The specific aims include:
- To analyse different aspects of inequality and labour market disadvantage.
- To explore the psychological theory underpinning the experience of inequality and unfair treatment at work and consider how individuals might react and what the impact will be on them and their workplaces.
- To examine societal and organizational approaches to promote equality and fairness at work.
- To promote an understanding of current aspects relating to the management of diversity and fairness in organisations with specific emphasis on wellbeing, stress, diversity and gender issues.
Learning outcomes
In the end of the course, the students will be able to:
- Identify the current issues relating to equality and fairness in the workplace.
- Understand key patterns and manifestations of employment inequality and how inequalities intersect with each other to create and sustain disadvantage
- Understand how the organisation of welfare, employment and the family may contribute to reinforce or minimize inequalities
- Identify discriminatory practices for particular groups and evaluate the effectiveness of organisational and institutional frameworks to tackle these
- Identify the barriers and enablers of equality and wellbeing in the workplace.
- Apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout the course with respect to the implementation of good practice for the management of diversity within organisations.
Syllabus
The themes covered include:
• Approaches to understanding inequalities: The organisational and societal levels
• Intersectional experiences of ethnic minorities and migrants in the labour market
• Gender, employment and the family
• Employment polarisation and inequality in the service economy
• Pay inequality: gender and other gaps
• Flexibility, precarious work and employment inequality
• Fairness and ethics in the workplace.
• Barriers and enablers of wellbeing, equality, stress in the workplace
• Bullying and discrimination, sexual harassment.
• The ageing workforce.
• The psychological contract, equity and justice.
Teaching and learning methods
Methods of delivery: Lecture, seminars, guest speakers, clinics and surgeries
Lecture hours: 28 (3 hour slots, including guest speakers and surgeries weeks 1-9, 1 hour revision lecture week 10)
Seminar hours: 8 discussion based (1 hour weeks 2 to 9)
Clinics: 2x 2hr drop in clinics in week 10
Total contact hours: 40
Informal Contact Methods
1. Office Hours
2. Blackboard, email
3. Peer Assisted Study Sessions (during seminars)
Employability skills
- Oral communication
- - communication and persuasion skills through group discussion and debate
- Research
- - skills to learn and research independently.
- Other
- - skills to recognise issues relating to equality and fairness in the workplace - skills to identify the barriers and enablers of wellbeing and stress in the workplace - skills to identify barriers hampering equality of opportunity in the workplace for both women and men
Assessment methods
Formative: Optional assignment: essay rehearsing answers to hypothetical exam questions.Summative: exam (100%)
Feedback methods
Discussion-based seminars will allow weekly feedback on student understanding of course material.
Optional assignment to receive formative feedback.
Recommended reading
- Grimshaw, D., Fagan, C., Hebson, G. and Tavora, I. (2017) Making Work More Equal: A new labour market segmentation approach. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Available online: file://nask.man.ac.uk/home$/Downloads/634747%20(1).pdf
- Healy, G., Kirton, G. and Noon, M. (2011) Equality, inequalities and Diversity. Contemporary challenges and Strategies. London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Johnson, S. J. Robertson, I. Cooper, C. L. (2018). Wellbeing: Productivity and Happiness at Work 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillon.
- Johnson, S. J. (2015). Evidence Review E18: How are work requirements and environments evolving and what will be the impact of this on individuals who will reach 65 in 2025 and 2040? Future of Ageing: Evidence Review. Foresight, Government Office for Science. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/461437/gs-15-25-future-ageing-work-environments-er18.pdf
- Quick, J. C., & McFadyen, M. (2017). Sexual harassment: Have we made any progress?. Journal of occupational health psychology, 22(3), 286.
- Samnani, A. K.,
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Assessment written exam | 2.5 |
Lectures | 28 |
Practical classes & workshops | 4 |
Seminars | 8 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 159.5 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Sheena Johnson | Unit coordinator |
ISABEL TAVORA | Unit coordinator |
Additional notes
Programme Restrictions: Available to students on BSc Management / Management (specialism),BSc International Management and BSc International Management with American Business Studies.
For Academic Year 2025/26
Updated: March 2025
Approved by: March UG Committee