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Why read Accounting & Management at York?

Our management degrees blend the study of people and processes with a range of other perspectives, techniques, theories and concepts derived from academic disciplines as diverse as economics, maths, philosophy, and psychology. Students attending our programmes pick up important practical skills, but are also asked to consider deeper philosophical questions about the nature of the managerial and business professions and the impact they have upon organizations, people and environments. With this philosophical agenda comes an interest in critiquing assumptions about what makes for good, effective and ethical management.

Our courses also reflect the needs of a changing world. Management, and the experience of ‘being-a-manager’, has undergone a significant transformation since its ‘invention’ in the nineteenth century. Management is fast becoming a multiethnic, multicultural profession within which women are becoming more vocal and influential.  While many of the practical needs of business remain the same, approaches, attitudes, and the language of business has undergone significant change.

Graduates entering the workforce from The York Management School are able to appreciate, critically analyse, ethically evaluate, and work within, transforming and unpredictable local and global contexts. What now counts as a business is much broader than it once was, and the range of people running them, be they large-scale or small and entrepreneurial, has also changed dramatically.  We develop the ability to lead change, impassion others, and understand and interpret the diverse environments which you are going to encounter as managers in the future.