Having completed this study unit

• You know the basic functions of an organization and basics of business.
• You can define sustainability as a success factor in business
• You can identify sustainable business opportunities in the business environment
• You can identify the business processes and their interrelation
• You can describe the company’s strategic choices and challenges related to sustainable development.
• You are able to provide examples of how social, economic, and ecological ecosystems interact and influence each other.

Competences: Ethics Competence, Sustainable Development Competence

- Basics of business, business processes and their interrelation
- Sustainability as success factor, sustainable business concepts (economic, ecologic and social)
- Strategic choices and challenges related to sustainable business
- UN Sustainable Development Goals

Having completed this study unit
Individual level:
- You recognize your cultural background and its impact on daily decision making and how they interact with each other.
- You know different diversity dimensions, your own stereotypes and biases towards others.
- You know the basic concepts of cultural diversity and are able to communicate effectively in different international environments.

Organisational and team level:
- You know theories and practices on how to work in culturally and otherwise diverse teams and organizations.
- You know theories and practices on how to contribute, collaborate, communicate and debate in diverse teams
- You know the organizations’ needs from diverse perspectives.
- You recognize the complexities arising from diversity related issues.

Societal level:
- You recognize the impact of diversity and cultural differences at a global and national level.

Competences: Internationalism and multiculturalism Competence; Sustainable Development Competence, Responsible Management and Leadership Competence

- Cultural background and its impact
- Diversity dimensions, stereotypes and biases
- Basic concepts of cultural diversity
- Theories and practices of diverse teams and organizations
- Complexities arising from diversity related issues
- Organizations’ needs from diverse perspectives
- Impact of diversity and cultural differences at a global and national level
- Theories and practices on how to contribute, collaborate, communicate and debate in diverse teams
- Effective communication in different international environments.

Having completed this study unit
• You know Lapland University of Applied Sciences as a study environment, and you know the services and systems that support your studies.
• You develop your higher education readiness and skills as well as your information acquisition skills.
• You identify the factors related to your own study ability and wellbeing and consider how you can maintain your own study ability and how you can take care of your own wellbeing.
• You know how to use digital learning tools and make the most of them in your studies.
• You are familiar with the study guidance system, and you know the university's guidance actors.
• You get to know the curriculum of your education and create your own curriculum under guidance. You know the students and teachers in your group.
• You have the essential writing, speaking and presentation skills needed in managerial settings in business.
• You are able to communicate in a variety of business situations and identify and adjust to the ethical aspects of business communication.
• You are able to work as part of a multicultural team.
• You can use Lapland UAS templates.

New degree students at Lapland University of Applied Sciences are oriented to their studies by this course. Course is divided to two parts. The first part of the course (2 ects), you will do independently in Moodle- environment, during the first month of study. In this part of course, you will get to know Lapland University of Applied Sciences as a learning environment. You will consider your learning abilities and acquire the skills and systems needed for your future studies.

The second part of the course (3 ects), will be hold on campus with your own educational fields’ teacher. In the Study Guidance and Curriculum section, you will get to know the other students in your starting group and start planning your own studies. Your own teacher will give the instructions for this part of the course.

Having completed this study unit
• You know how to use electronic presentation tools, spreadheet and word processing program in different tasks related to learning, working and in projects.
• You are able to create presentations, workbook and documents.
• You are able to recognize the opportunities of the use of the artificial intelligence in a business setting.

Competences: Learning to learn Competence

- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Photoshop

Having completed this study unit
• You understand the basic concepts of economics.
• You know the difference between micro and macroeconomics.
• You understand the fundamentals of microeconomics; supply and demand and the connection to market prices.
• You understand the basics of macroeconomics and know some of the key macroeconomic indicators.
• You are able to understand the connection between business and economics.
• You are able to write a report on the topic of economics

Competences: Financial Management and Business related Law Competence, Sustainable Development Competence

- Microeconomics
- Supply and demand
- Markets and competition
- Macroeconomics
- National economy
- Inflation
- Labour markets
- Fiscal and Monetary policy
- Economics Growth
- International trade
- Reporting skills

Having completed this study unit

• You know key principles and concepts of leadership and management
• You know the importance of leadership and management when setting and achieving goals
• You know the importance of working-life skills
• You know the importance of self-awareness and self-management in leadership and management
• You are able to self-reflect your own role in an organisation and you understand individual and group behavior in organizations.
• You are able to recognize and evaluate your own and your teams' strengths and know-how
• You know the importance of career planning

Competences: Operating in a Workplace Competence, Ethics Competence, Learning to Learn Competence, Responsible Management and Leadership Competence

- Principles on leadership and management
- Working-life skills
- Self-management and self-awareness
- Own and team’s strengths and know-how
- Career planning

Having completed the study unit:

• You are familiar with the aspects of Finnish culture
• You are able to discuss about the topics related to Finnish society and aspects of it compared to other countries
• You have able to understand and are able to discuss the differences between Finnish culture and other cultures indicated during the course
• You understand the differences connected to cultural background of different countries and societies
• You know the personal biases and stereotypes that may affect interactions in a multicultural environment.
• You understand the different values and value-setting in the different cultures and countries and how those are built.
• You recognize the basic practices of Finnish working culture
• You are able to create a small-scale event (for example multicultural fair)

Competences: Learning to learn Competence, Operating in a Workplace Competence, International and Multiculturalism Competence

• Cultural differences
• Discussing about differences
• Different values and value-setting
• Finnish working culture
• Creating a small-scale event

Having completed this study unit:

- You are able to plan and implement business activities in a business project.
- You recognize the role of different business processes and their interconnection in practice and understand the main principles of profitable and responsible business.
- You are able to carry out business-related tasks as a responsible and active member of a team
- You are able present the outputs of a project as instructed, both orally and in writing.
- You are able to identify the basic principles and concepts of working in a project

Competences: Learning to learn Competence, Ethics Competence, Responsible Management and Leadership Competence, Marketing, Sales and Project Management Competence

· Implementation of business-related tasks and the business processes in practice
· Main principles of profitable and responsible business in practice
· Working as a responsible and active member in a team
· Implementation of a business project/ basics of project work
· Networking with working life
· Presentation of the outputs of a project

Having completed this study unit

• You understand the basic concepts of financial management and know the legislation related to financial management.
• You know the basics of bookkeeping and financial statements.
• You understand the concept of value-added tax and are familiar with value-added tax and corporate taxation.
• You calculate the taxable income.
• You know how to do bookkeeping with an electronic financial management system.
• You understand the basic concept of cost-volume profit analysis and pricing for small business.
• You know the importance of identifying costs and pricing for a small business and of cash flow.

Competences: Financial Management and Business related Law Competence

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Having completed this study unit
· You know the principles of marketing and understand modern marketing thinking.
• You know the tasks related to marketing in a company, target group thinking and factors influencing consumer
behaviour.
• You understand the role of marketing as a success factor of a company and can make justified choices of marketing
tools in different business situations.
• You understand the marketing mix and responsible marketing practices.
• You are able to identify the stages of sales process and are able describe the factors affecting the sales
effectiveness.
• You are able to put marketing and sales theories into practice.

Competences: Marketing, Sales and Project Management Competence / Marketing Competence

Content:
• marketing thinking
• segmentation
• company's external and internal operation environment
• marketing mix
• marketing tools
• responsible marketing

Having completed this study unit
• You can apply economic mathematics and statistical methods to support business decisions
• You know how to use statistical mathematics and spreadsheets in the analysis of research data.
• You know how to report the results obtained.

Competences: Learning to learn Competence, Business and Financial Management Competence

Mathematics
• Interest bills
• Margin calculation
• Currencies and indices
• Tax
• Simple interest, compound interest and periodic payments

Statistics
• Statistical indicators
• Tables and charts

Having completed this study unit

• The student knows the legal environment of a company.
• The student knows the basics of contract and corporate law and their meaning and role in business.
• The student is able to retrieve and apply legal information.
• The student recognizes main legal factors and challenges in business in the field of contract and corporate law.

Comptences: Financial Management and Business related Law Competence

Basics of contract law:
- an overview of Finnish legislation and the courts of justice
- law of the person
- the meaning and contents of contract
- different types of contracts
- sale of goods
- consumer protection
- the main principles of compensation for damage

Basics of corporate law:
- freedom of trade
- establishing a company
- company forms and their special features

Searching and applying judicial knowledge into practice in the field of contract and corporate law.