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Create a solid foundation on which to build a successful career in the field of HR.
Diplomas
Gain the core skills and disciplines required to excel in the field of human resources management.
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Go further in your HR career by enhancing your core competencies.
Courses & Workshops
CGMG 282 Introduction to Business.
(3 credits)
A broad introduction to business based on the functional areas: accounting, finance, human resources management, industrial relations, marketing, production, and general management. For each area lectures introduce basic concepts, which students apply to cases that depict the complexity of decision-making in the business world.
CORG 440 Organizational Learning and Development
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(3 credits)
Fall 2019
Review of major models of learning and development from a systemic point of view. Assessing and understanding the difference between training and development. Topics include: learning organizations, training issues, training programs, skills development, transfer of learning, planning, conceptualization, design, implementation and evaluation of training and career development programs.
CORG 445 Workforce Planning and Talent Acquisition.
(3 credits)
Fall 2019
New trends and best practices in workforce planning and talent acquisition. Recruitment and selection will be covered from legal, theoretical, and practical
perspectives. Topics covered include job analysis, competency-based profile, and employer branding. Staffing processes, metric indicators, and strategic sourcing will also be discussed.
CORG 450 Workplace Health and Safety.
(3 credits)
Fall 2019
Basic components of effective health and safety policies, programs and current legislation (CSST, WHMIS, safety committees) focusing on proactive management to ensure employees have clearly defined accountabilities for accident prevention: hazardous materials, loss prevention, workers' compensation claims, employee assistance plans, work life quality, preventative health issues, and ergonomic standards.
CORG 551 Behaviour in Organizations.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring/Summer 2020
The implications for management and the essential concepts of social psychology such as motivation, perception, attitude change and organization. Group and organizational dynamics will be the major emphasis of the course. Classroom discussion and student participation is encouraged.
CORG 553 Employee and Labour Relations.
(3 credits)
Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Industrial relations framework, its legal, political, social, economic, ecological and ethical subsystems. Processes governing union-management relations, collective bargaining and dispute resolution, and the roles of executives, supervisors, employees, employee representatives, HR-IR professionals in effective employee relations in unionized and non-unionized environments.
CORG 554 Managing Occupational Health and Safety.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
How to develop, implement and manage effective health and safety programs; competencies and roles of employees, supervisors, executives and HR; strategic, legal and ethical implications of legislation, risk behaviour; socio-psychological aspects of mental and physical health and safety issues; communications and training strategies.
CORG 555 Strategic Human Resources Management.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Linking HRM and business strategy; role of HR in the organization and alignment with strategic management. Overview of HR functional areas and the competencies required to become a successful HR professional; impact of HR policies, processes and practices on employees, teams and organizations, including legal and ethical implications.
CORG 556 Managing and Engaging Teamwork.
(3 credits)
Skills and knowledge to work better in teams, to leverage team strengths and avoid or resolve obstacles to build effective teamwork. Topics include: team development, building trust, decision-making in teams, resolving team conflicts and enhancing creativity in groups.
CORG 557 Talent and Performance Management.
(3 credits)
Fall 2019
Talent and Performance Management focuses on succession planning and performance management systems, processes and tools. Topics include: performance management strategies, measurement, indicators and reviews.
The goal is to select effective and practical processes, methods, and tools to assess and increase current and future organizational performance.
CORG 560 Staffing Organizations.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
HR planning and succession planning; organizational and job analysis; recruitment and selection processes which enhance individual performance and organizational effectiveness; recruitment and selection planning; validation and evaluation measurements. Strategic, legal and ethical implications of staffing practices and decisions will be analyzed.
CORG 561 Developing Human Resources.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Human performance technology and organizational learning models address individual, team and organizational performance problems: diagnosing workplace situations, identifying causes, selecting appropriate interventions, implementing change, and evaluating results; increasing client capability delivering results while considering internal and external factors affecting performance (competing pressures and resource constraints); strategic, legal and ethical implications.
CORG 562 Total Compensation and Rewards.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Strategic compensation management within a behavioural framework to understand rewards and motivation, work satisfaction and performance. Use of financial and non-financial rewards to attract, retain and motivate. Legal, economic, ethical and culture-fit issues in the design and implementation of direct and indirect compensation policies and systems.
CORG 565 Human Resources Information Systems: HRIS.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Winter 2020
How to measure human resources management value and effectiveness; data sources relevant to strategic, operational, legal and ethical HR decisions: acquiring and analyzing data from HRIS, internet, surveys; methods to ensure validity of HR metrics. Survey of specialized computerized HRM applications.
CORG 590 Topics in Human Resources Management.
(3 credits)
Specialized course covering advanced topics in the human resources management area selected from current issues or themes in literature.
CPL2 532 Leading Change.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Leading and managing change issues, including the leader as a change agent and the change process itself. Various models of change and change leadership will be reviewed, as well as follower reluctance or resistance to change and strategies that leaders can use to gain follower commitment.
CPL2 533 Developing Leadership Skills.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Winter 2020
This course presents an overview of leadership theories and applications. It provides students with an understanding of why and how leadership skills are critical to organizational success. Students will learn to apply and develop their own leadership skills to work effectively with others in an organizational setting.
CPL2 534 Leading in Diverse and Global Workplaces.
(3 credits)
Fall 2019
Exploring leadership within a global and diverse context. A variety of trends that have made managing workforce diversity an essential competency for future leaders are reviewed, as are the emerging skills that managers need to develop to succeed in a global environment.
INDR 294 Introduction to Labour-Management Relations.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Spring/Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
An introduction to labour-management relations, the structure, function and government of labour unions, labour legislation, the collective bargaining process, and the public interest in industrial relations.
INDR 494 Labour Law.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Winter 2020
Introduction to the basic concepts of labour law relevant to the practice of industrial relations. Historical development of labour law in certain social and legal systems and the culmination in the legislative enactments and jurisprudence of Canadian jurisdictions and certain comparative foreign models.
MGCR 222 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour.
(3 credits)
In-class, Part-time
Winter 2019, Spring/Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
MGCR 423 Strategic Management.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring/Summer 2020
An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes.
MGPO 450 Ethics in Management.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019
An examination of the economic, legal and ethical responsibilities of managers in both private and public organizations. Through readings, case studies, discussions and projects the class evaluates alternative ethical systems and norms of behaviour and draws conclusions as to the right, proper and just decisions and actions in the face of moral dilemmas. The focus of this course is on the decision process, values and consistency of values of the individual and on the impact of systems control and incentives on managerial morality.
ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring/Summer 2020
Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
ORGB 420 Managing Organizational Teams.
(3 credits)
Fall 2019
Theory, research, and applications. Principles of team processes and effectiveness in organizational settings, specifically the theoretical developments and empirical findings of group dynamics and team effectiveness, and practical strategies and skills for successful management of organizational teams.
ORGB 421 Managing Organizational Change.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Winter 2020
Organizational change theory and techniques are examined with an emphasis on techno-structural interventions such as Quality-of-Work-Life approaches. Through simulations and case-studies, the course explores initiatives in organizational change, primarily in contemporary Canadian organizations. It also includes opportunities for "hands-on" experience in work and organization redesign.
ORGB 423 Human Resources Management.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019, Spring/Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020
Issues involved in personnel administration. Topics include: human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, organization development and change, issues in compensation and benefits, and labour-management relations.
ORGB 424 Employment.
(3 credits)
Reviews in sequence all aspects of the hiring of employees. Topics covered will include manpower planning, recruiting, selection, placement orientation, retirement and dehiring. Each area will be covered from legal, technical and theoretical perspectives.
ORGB 426 Human Resource Training and Development.
(3 credits)
Planning, conceptualization, design, implementation and evaluation of training and career development programs. Review of the major techniques in each area. Training and development approached from a systems point of view.
ORGB 525 Compensation Management.
(3 credits)
Winter 2019
Compensation policies and practices, consistent with motivational theories, are examined. Topics include: design and evaluation of job evaluation systems, salary structures, and performance-based pay; compensation of special employee groups; and current pay equity laws. Projects and simulations provide "hands-on" experience in the use of compensation techniques.
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