Cours

Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.

Offered by: Management

• Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Hervé Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
  • Lindsay Holmgren

Management Policy: 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.

Offered by: Management

• Restriction: U2 and U3 students only

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Lindsay Holmgren

Management Policy: Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.

Offered by: Management

• Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Paola Perez-Aleman, Rohini Jalan
  • Niels Billou

Management Science: Social and environmental impacts of an organization’s operations. Regulatory environments, eco-efficiency concepts and measurement systems. Lifecycle analysis and exploring impacts linked to: product design, sourcing, production, distribution, sales, and end-of-life recovery & treatment. Frameworks and best practices for reducing negative consequences and increasing positive ones.

Offered by: Management

• Restrictions: Open only to U2 and U3 students.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Sanjith Gopalakrishnan

Retail Management: Stages of developing a business concept in sustainability and retail. The experiential learning component culminates in a competition where student teams will pitch their business ideas to a panel of external business experts.

Offered by: Management

• Restrictions: Open to U2 & U3 students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Marie Josee Lamothe

Accounting: Developing measures of corporate environmental performance, assessing their reliability and reporting to external stakeholders. Using sustainability metrics in strategic and operational business decisions. Implementing and utilizing Environmental management systems and standards. Managing corporate environmental risks and accounting for environmental costs. Environmental auditing.

Offered by: Management

• Prerequisite: MGCR 211
• Open only to U2 and U3 students.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Hongping Tan

Management Policy: This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries.

Offered by: Management

• Recommended: MGCR 423
• Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Elena Obukhova

Management Policy: Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.

Offered by: Management

• Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Paola Perez-Aleman

Industrial Relations: Comparison of employment relations in current socio-political and economic context of a variety of nations. Emphasis on historical and recent developments in labour-management relations, labour legislation, institutional structures, collective bargaining, contract coverage, and the role of multi-national corporations.

Offered by: Management

• Prequisite: INDR 294
• INDR459 focuses on traditional industrial relations topics (unionization, collective bargaining, etc.) and complements INDR492 which deals with labour policies in general and in comparative persepctive.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Industrial Relations: Exploration of contemporary labour policies around the world in the context of globalization. Topics include labour market functioning, international trade, technological change, flexibility, employment standards, protective legislation, employment practices.

Offered by: Management

• Prerequisite: INDR 294

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Industrial Relations: 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.

Offered by: Management

• Prerequisite: INDR 294

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Stephen De Four-Wyre

Industrial Relations: Principles of collective bargaining in Canada and abroad. Problem oriented. Mock collective bargaining sessions provide an opportunity for students to apply knowledge gained.

Offered by: Management

• Prerequisite: INDR 294

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Chantal Westgate