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Program Requirements

Corequisite

• CORG 551 Behaviour in Organizations (3 credits) *

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

  Instructors: Callender, Shauna; Fraser, Linda (Fall) Callender, Shauna; Fraser, Linda (Winter) Fraser, Linda (Summer)

* or the Exemption by Examination Test

Required Courses (12 credits)

• CORG 555 Strategic Human Resources Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: Burney, Sema (Fall) Burney, Sema (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 551

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 560 Staffing Organizations (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: Brosseau, Ann (Fall) Brosseau, Ann (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 555

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 561 Developing Human Resources (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: Marzo, Angela (Fall) Marzo, Angela (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 555

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 562 Total Compensation and Rewards (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: Courtois, Richard (Fall) Courtois, Richard (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 555

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

Complementary Courses (3 credits)

3 credits from:

• CGM2 510 Project Management: Tools & Techniques (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Management : Focus on main concepts and theories of project management from initiation to close-out. Topics include: project life cycle, planning, scheduling, implementing, monitoring, controlling, close-out and ethics. The concepts presented apply to projects of various sizes, types and degrees of complexity.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

  Instructors: Kamel, Michael Ezzat; Farha, Shadi (Fall) Kamel, Michael Ezzat; Farha, Shadi (Winter) Gauthier, Sylvain; Bartlett, Lloyd; Theopoulos, Spiro (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Open to students currently in a program. Not open to Special Students.

• CORG 552 Finance and Accounting Principles for HR Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Understanding financial statements and financial consequences of human resources management (HRM) decision-making on an organization and its bottom-line; examination of HRM implications of strategic finance issues: due diligence in mergers/acquisitions, financial commitments and liabilities associated with equity disputes and labour contract negotiations; legal and ethical implications of quantitative HRM issues.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

  Instructors: Cohen, Thierry (Fall) Cohen, Thierry (Winter) Lapointe, Deirdre (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 553 Employee and Labour Relations (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: Westgate, Chantal (Fall) Westgate, Chantal (Winter)

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 554 Managing Occupational Health and Safety (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012

  Instructors: Castonguay, Jean-Louis (Fall) Castonguay, Jean-Louis (Winter)

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 565 Managing Human Resources Management Information (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : 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.

  Terms: Winter 2012

  Instructors: Padilla, Luis (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 555

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources Concentration), Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 570 International Human Resources Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Managing the global workforce; focus on the strategic and legal impact of global competition, and cross-national human resources management (HRM) issues; management of expatriates; global mindsets which impact HRM policies and the various HR functional areas (e.g. staffing, compensation, management development); ethical issues in international management.

  Terms: Fall 2011

  Instructors: Padilla, Luis (Fall)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 555

  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management, Diploma in Management (Human Resources concentration), & Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.

• CORG 590 Topics in Human Resources Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Specialized course covering advanced topics in the human resources management area selected from current issues or themes in literature.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.

  • Prerequisite: Permission of the Director
  • Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Diploma in Human Resources Management. Diploma in Management (Human Resources Concentration), Grad. Certificate in Human Resources Management.
  • Note: Content will vary from year to year.
• CPL2 510 Communication and Networking Skills (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : This course will provide students with leadership skills pertaining to communication and networking in the workplace. Topics covered include influencing, appraising situations, business networking, teamwork and delivering effective presentations.

  Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012

  Instructors: Walsh, Brendan (Fall) Walsh, Brendan (Winter) Walsh, Brendan (Summer)

• CPL2 532 Leading Change (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : 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.

  Terms: Winter 2012

  Instructors: Cooper, John (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 551

• CPL2 534 Transcultural Leadership (3 credits)

  Offered by: Career & Professional Develop (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : 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.

  Terms: Fall 2011

  Instructors: Du Couturier-Nichol, Garrfield (Fall)

Or any other 500- or 600-level course offered and approved by Career and Professional Development.