Business Psychology

About this course

Business psychology is a discipline that applies the scientific understanding of human behaviour, motivation, and cognition to the challenges and opportunities that organisations face every day. It draws on psychology, management theory, and organisational behaviour to ask how people can be recruited, developed, motivated, and supported effectively, how teams can be made to function at their best, how leadership can be exercised with integrity and skill, and how organisations can create environments in which people and performance both flourish. At Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh you will follow a four-year programme that develops genuine depth in both disciplines, combining the theoretical rigour of psychology with the practical commercial and managerial contexts in which that knowledge is applied. You will study topics including personality and individual differences, the psych

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 65% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 20% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 10% of graduatescards →

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