Foundation of Organizational Behaviour and Administration.

Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026

This course covers diverse theories and applications such as perception, motivation, decision-making, team dynamics, negotiation, conflict management, leadership, and organizational culture. Levels of analysis are on the individual, team and organizational level.

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Employee Labour Relations and Law.

Terms offered: Fall 2025

An overview of the history and theories of industrial relations and how they are related to today's labour-management relationships and laws. Consideration will be paid to topics such as the organization, purpose and governance of unions; legislation of labour; collective bargaining processes and the dynamic of public interest and industrial relations.

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Leading Change in Organizations.

Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

An overview of theories and models on leading and managing organizational change. Topics such as leaders spearheading change, the change process, preventing and addressing resistance to change, and creating consensus and buy-in will be covered. Change models, theories and techno-structural methods will be applied using contemporary Canadian case studies.

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Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice.

Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

This course provides a comprehensive overview of human resources management (HRM) and an understanding of the strategic role HRM plays in the work environment. It introduces students to current HRM concepts, skills and practices, focusing on both theory and its practical application. Topics include: human resources planning, job analysis and design, recruitment selection and retention, training, performance management, organizational development and change, compensation and benefits, labour relations, legal issues, and strategic issues and challenges in HRM.

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Organizational Learning and Development .

Terms offered: Winter 2026

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.

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Workforce Planning and Talent Acquisition.

Terms offered: Fall 2025

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.

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Workplace Health and Safety.

Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025

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.

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Theories and Practices of Compensation.

Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

An overview of organizational behaviour theories related to compensation management. Policies and practices relative to compensation and its relationship with motivation are discussed. Topics such as feedback loops and job evaluation; salary scales; performance-based pay; special employee groups and pay equity law will be covered using real world case studies.

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Strategic Planning and Implementation.

Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

Theory and practice of strategic management required to facilitate strategic thinking and planning in organizations in response to changing conditions. Topics in stakeholder analysis; transforming strategic plans into policies and programs, assessing organizational performance, deploying resources, quality control, strategic communication, planning, problem solving, progress assessment; completion and evaluation.

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Introduction to Business.

Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

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.

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Ethical Issues in Business Practices.

Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026

An exploration of the ethical implications of business practices. Topics reviewed include the evaluation of ethical issues; the integration of ethical decision-making tools in business; corporate social responsibility; ethical implications for management and leadership and self-evaluation techniques for improving ethical practices. Real world case studies are extensively used.

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Leading Teams in Organizations.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

An overview of leadership theories and models related to the management of teams in organizational settings. Topics such as team dynamics, underlying factors to successful and ineffective teamwork, strategies for supporting managers in improving team performance and team building will be addressed. In addition, practical strategies and leadership skills for leading teams will be applied and developed.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Management.

Terms offered: Fall 2025

Examination of the concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. Effect on interpersonal interactions, intergroup interactions and the management of multicultural workforces in terms of cognition and behaviour, communication, leadership, employee engagement and negotiation.

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