Professor Office Telephone E-Mail Office Hours Class Location Class Hours
Gerard N. Brathwaite-Sturgeon DMS 5144 (613) 562-5800 (ext 8839: please no voice mail) brathwaite@telfer.uottawa.ca DMS 5144: Thursdays 5:30 – 6:45 or by appointment. DMS 4140 Thursdays: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Course Deliverable Team Class Topic Facilitation Individual Article Review Mid-Term Exam Team Case Report and Presentation Final Exam
Due Date According to the schedule established in class June 10, 2010 June 24, 2010 - Mid Term Exam Week Presentations and report are due August 05, 2010. Presentations will take place during class time on August 05, 2010 Exam date will be set during the period August 9 to 13, 2010 - Final Exam Week
Weight on Final Grade 10% 10% 20% 30%
30%
Course Description
This course is aligned with the major objective of the Telfer MBA program, which is to develop managerial competences required for “Leading High Performance Organizations.” It accepts as its premise that a key driver of high performance in any organization is the extent to which its employees fulfill performance expectations, which are intimately aligned with the overall strategy of the organization. This course combines the disciplines of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in a way that will provide you with an understanding of how people behave in the workplace. Moreover, you will be introduced to the Human Resource policies, practices, and tactics geared toward developing and maintaining healthy, capable, engaged, motivated, and committed employees in the pursuit of individual, group, and organizational level effectiveness. In this course, you will examine key topics in the fields of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management with a view to understanding how managers influence employees -- using formal and informal practices – to achieve and surpass the goals of complex