Examines the theories, frameworks and tools required to analyze, interpret, predict and respond to the global business environment. Using contemporary examples arising from globalization, students will apply various analytical approaches to interpreting international political and economic relations, as these relate to global management.
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MGMT565: International Accounting Tools for Financial Health
Considers financial tools and performance measurements that are widely used in both the public and private sectors. The course focuses on tools that are required by both experienced and aspiring leaders, providing opportunities for hands-on application of tools and measurements by course participants. In individual and team projects, students will examine the controls used by organizations.
MGMT566: Ethics, Law and Corporate Social Responsibility
Examines theories, models and practices associated with ethical business practices in an international and intercultural context. Issues are examined involving conducting business across different legal contexts and corporate governance systems that exist across national and cultural boundaries. Focuses on the inter-relationships between ethics and business, different legal systems, and systems of corporate governance. Particular attention is paid to the differences that exist across cultures and jurisdictions, recognizing the difficulties and challenges businesses face when operating internationally. Core competencies and strategies required for navigating through these often conflicting and contradictory systems are examined.
MGMT569: International Business Operations and Supply Chain Management
Examines the methods and theories related to production of an organization’s goods and services. Topics include discussion of process layouts, quality, supply-chain management and inventory control, all of which are considered from an international perspective.
MGMT570: Leading your Workforce in a Global Context
Examines theories, models and practices associated with leadership and explores the application of learning to the complexities, challenges and opportunities of managing human resources in a global context. The course deals with recognizing and developing core competencies for leading human resources talent in the complicated and complex global landscape within which organizations operate. Emphasis is placed on preparing students to exercise their leadership in managing individual and team performance, global workforce planning, recruitment and selection, onboarding, training and development, succession planning, and motivating and rewarding staff.
MGMT582: Managing Change in Global Context
Discusses the overarching importance of change, the realities of making and implementing change decisions, and the potential consequences on organizations, staff, a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders, and the ultimate effect on the bottom line. Learners will examine various approaches to change management and appreciate the complexities and challenges of managing change in a global context. Emphasis will be placed on intercultural sensitivity, cross-cultural competencies, and a global mindset.
ORGD610: Setting the Foundation for Organizational Transformation
Focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of organization development and emergent practices for designing future organizational structures. Explores the necessary skills and actions required to build social intelligence, develop relationships, consult in systems, and foster a culture of innovation in organizations. Students will apply learning through an experientially-oriented organization design project.
ORGD625: Organization Design: Processes for Positive Change
In this course, you will develop understanding of the development and design of Organizational Design (OD) interventions from a ‘positive approach to change’ perspective. The course is designed to help you experience a number of positive approaches to OD, from scaleable strategies such as Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Deviance and Open Space, to process tools such as mindmapping and affinity charting. To support your ability to analyze and create innovative strategies and approaches for further positive change in client organizations, extensive readings and exercises will expand your knowledge and capability. In the course you will learn to explore the complex processes of effective organization change and introduces practices to support positive systemic engagement. The course provides its students with the skills required to design and deliver customized interventions to assist organizations in leading and implementing positive stakeholder-engaged organization change.
ORGD640: Organization Development: Supporting Organizational Health and Vitality
In this course you will learn how to develop knowledge and skills necessary for conducting strategic analysis, decision making, and evaluation in complex organizations with particular focus on organizational health and vitality. Students will be introduced to approaches that assist in discerning intentions, roles and foci for Organization Development (OD) and change processes, and in finding a best fit with the practitioner’s style and capabilities.
OD practitioners have focused on supporting the strategic goals of organizations through various interventions that are designed to create alignment between people and strategy, and to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the realization of goals. OD practitioners are often called upon to support changes that arise from marketplace changes, economic conditions and workforce fluctuations. Increasingly, vibrant, healthy organizations prove to be those that have learned to renew themselves while on the way to realizing their strategies and goals. Addressing organizational health and vitality often starts with an understanding of how these elements relate to performance. “Performance” is typically assessed with “hard” measures, such as what an enterprise delivers to stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Other metrics are also employed, such as net operating profit, return on capital employed, total returns to shareholders, net operating costs, and stock values.
This course will help you to expand your repertoire by exploring various frameworks, approaches and practices OD practitioners can use to craft strategic changes related to organizational health and vitality (alignment, execution and renewal). We will build an understanding of the central concept of organizational health and vitality, by exploring a number of concepts that contribute to it.
PCOM530: Strategic Digital Communication
Introduces students to communication in the digital landscape. Distinguishes between digital and traditional/analog media and how a strong strategic communication must include elements of both to be effective. Helps students identify the advantages, shortcomings and risks of digital communication, and the significance of evaluating and reporting the impact of digital communication. Includes case studies, discussion forums for collaborative learning, an exercise drawn from the corporate world where students must convince cynical senior management about the need for and value of digital communication, and a team effort to develop a well-rationalized digital communication campaign plant.