3.7 Course Overviews: "O"
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (ORGB)
Motivation and Productivity
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
Motivation and Productivity examines the way supervisory practices affect employee motivation and, with reference to theory, analyses the effectiveness of these practices. The concepts and practices discussed in the course apply to both private and public organizations. Upon completing ORGB 319 the student can expect to understand some causes of performance problems; understand the effect of certain supervisory (management) practices on motivation; understand how to assess the effectiveness of supervisory (management) practices in an organization; and be up-to-date on a number of management techniques in the areas of leadership, rewards, job design, goal setting, communications, and performance appraisal.
Precluded course: ORGB 319 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for ADMN 319.
Note: Because the course requires students to complete questionnaires based on work experience, if they do not have recent work experience, they must make alternative arrangements with the tutor.
Organization Theory
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
Organization Theory provides an understanding of the ways managers seek to promote organizational effectiveness
through internal structures and processes. The course
analyses how organizations are structured within the context of the larger social, political, and economic environment;
why systems of control and coordination are related to technology, goals, external environment, and other organizational characteristics; and generally how
organization theory may contribute toward improving
the design and management of organizations.
Prerequisite: none. ADMN 232 is recommended for students with no previous work experience or university-level background in administration.
Leadership in Organizations
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
This course examines basic leadership theory including the most significant models of leadership and requires the student to apply these models to leadership in a variety of organizational settings.
Organizational Behaviour
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
Organizational Behaviour provides an introduction to a wide range of topics and issues in organizational behaviour and emphasizes their practical applications. It encompasses the basic elements in the study of organizational behaviour (organizations, groups, individuals, and managerial processes) and is intended to develop knowledge based on organizational behaviour concepts and to develop ability or skill in the application of these concepts to administrative problems.
Special instructional features: This course is sometimes offered as a seminar or teleconference course. If these modes
of delivery are selected, the student must attend all sessions. This course is available via electronic delivery by personal computer using ViTAL.
Introduction to Human Resource Management
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
This course gives an overview of both the theoretical and practical aspects of human resource management in contemporary organizations. This includes the role and function of human resource management, commonly used techniques in human resource management, the organizational and societal environments of personnel administration, and current issues and trends in human resource management.
Prerequisite: none. ADMN 232 is recommended.
Strategic Human Resource Management
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
Capitalistic societies are characterized by constant change in response to innovation and to external market pressures. As a result, the past decade has witnessed a number of significant developments in work organizations. New technologies have radically altered the way work is performed and new structures have emerged a process sometimes referred to as ‘‘reengineering.’’ In parallel with these changes has been the emergence of a new approach to the management of people at work: the ‘‘progressive’’ or ‘‘new’’ Human Resource Management (HRM) paradigm.
This course covers the current debate about the nature and significance of the ‘‘new’’ HRM model; the strategic issues, such as the relationship between HRM and trade unions, and the links between HRM and organizational performance; some of the key techniques including recruitment and selection, appraisal, reward systems, training and development and international aspects of HRM are fully examined.
Prerequisite: none. ORGB 386 is recommended.
Managing Change
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
+
Video Component
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
This telecourse provides an overview of the major themes associated with management in the 1990s. Course organization is based on the major functions of management-planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Topics of such current importance as the cultural and social diversity of the workforce, social responsiveness and ethics, and multinational markets and competition are woven throughout the course. The assignment is an extended case study that students prepare, based on an organization of their choice.
Prerequisite: none. ADMN 232 is recommended for students with no previous work experience or university-level background in administration.
Special instructional features: This course is available via electronic delivery by personal computer using ViTAL.
Organizational Culture
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
Organizational Culture provides an understanding of the methodological, epistemological, and problem-solving issues involved in the study of organizational culture. The course analyses contrasting views about the usefulness of an organizational culture focus for understanding organizations. It looks at the competing approaches to the study of organizational culture, the assumptions of these competing approaches, and how the assumptions shape the definitions and problem-solving foci of the approaches. Gender biases in organizational cultures are also examined. The course presents a range of problem-solving issues that organizational culture
is best designed to address.
Prerequisite: none. At least one course from the Organizational Behaviour concentration required list of courses is recommended (see B.Admin. - Organization concentration).
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