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This course provides students with the skills to negotiate as supply management practitioners. Students will learn about the field of negotiation and conflict management; strategic approaches to competitive and integrative negotiations; how to prepare for negotiations; how perceptions, cognitions and emotions shape negotiations; how communication impacts negotiations; how parties can use third...
Operations Managers need to work effectively with employees at all levels across the organization. In this course, students are introduced to human resources management principles and practices; the legal context of human resources; attracting and selecting new hires; employee development; and employee relations with specific emphasis on the operations management function within organizations.
In this course, the principles of effective leadership and management are examined with an emphasis on developing strategies for effectively managing groups of people. Situational leadership strategies will be analyzed with a view toward leading organizations through periods of change. Students work collaboratively to examine a variety of workplace issues thereby learning to provide effective...
Students will learn the process of conducting a business analysis of a Festival including business planning, funding, fundraising, marketing and promotional strategies. Students will develop a business plan for a Community Festival to include specific recommendations on marketing and promotions strategies.
In this course students will learn the difference between financial and managerial accounting. The course will teach the students how to analyse financial statements, assess how costs are classified, budget creation, and be introduced to how information systems facilitate the production of financial reports. Further, students will explore accounting principles such that they are able to analyze...
The main focus of this course is to provide hands on experience in the IBM Mainframe programming environment (SYSTEM Z). In particular the student will develop and maintain projects utilizing IBMs mainframe COBOL programming language on a real Mainframe class system using IBMs IDZ IDE.
Audits are integral to ensuring workplace safety. In this course, students are introduced to auditing principles and techniques as they relate to occupational health and safety. Students gain basic knowledge of inspections, compliance audits and management system audits. By the end of the course, students are able to conduct basic inspections, compliance audits and management system audits. (This...
Occupational hygiene is the science of anticipation, recognition, evolution and control of workplace hazards that may result in illness, disease or injury. This course provides students with basic knowledge of airborne hazards, physical hazards, and biological hazards, the common routes of entry for workplace hazards, and related occupational illness and disease. Topics include indoor air quality...
You will analyze cultural, economic and political influences on the environment of work and on life-long learning and career planning. The courses will facilitate personal growth through career and educational planning activities. You will have the opportunity to value, articulate and document what you have learned outside the classroom through life experience. You will produce a portfolio...
This online course will provide an introduction to the principles of continuous improvement and benchmarking. Students will learn about the history and roots of continuous improvement, the core principle of Plan-Do-Check-Act continuous improvement cycle, the Kaizen philosophy for continuous improvement and Poke-Yoke (error-proofing). Included in this course is a brief introduction to advanced...