Course Schedule

HyFlex: The class will be delivered on campus, but will also be live-streamed synchronously for anyone who wishes
to join the class remotely.

RLDS: Remote delivery.

Web: Online delivery. See the course outline for more information.

GBUS Courses Timetable

Section	Day	Start	Time	Exam Date	Delivery
2024 Winter 2024 Spring/Summer 2024 Fall
GBUS 817 - Managing People in Organizations
This course is designed to develop students’ management skills through an exploration of the theory and practice involved in managing people. The emphasis is on understanding individual, team, and organizational factors and the processes through which they influence behaviour and performance, with a view to improving managerial effectiveness.
001	M	2022-AUG-31	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2022-DEC-19	HYFLX
002	T	2022-SEP-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2022-DEC-13	HYFLX
GBUS 830 - Business, Government and Society
This course examines ethical and social issues relevant to business management. It includes a multidisciplinary application of knowledge and concepts to contemporary issues challenging business executives, and the role of consultation with local communities and governments, sustainable business practices and evolving global standards of corporate social responsibility and ethics.
001		2022-AUG-31	-	2022-DEC-22	ONLNE
GBUS 838 - Research Methods in Management
This course is designed to assist students in conducting research projects in the areas of marketing and management. It introduces a variety of research designs, including survey and experimental designs, quantitative methods as well as data analysis and interpretation. Several multivariate techniques will be covered.
001	R	2022-AUG-31	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2022-DEC-15	HYFLX
GBUS 860 - Managing Change
This course seeks to bring about an awareness and understanding of how organizations are managing change. The course will provide perspectives of the change strategists, the change implementors, and the change recipients. The objectives of the course is to develop sensitive and effective change-agent skills in management ranks.
001	T	2022-AUG-31	7:00pm - 9:45pm		HYFLX
GBUS 864 - Compensation
The course introduces and develops concepts used in compensating employees and managers in organizations. The course will cover designing pay structures for strategic purposes, internal consistency and external competitiveness, job evaluation models, variable group and individual pay systems, basic employee benefits, legal issues surrounding compensation (pay equity and discrimination), compensating special groups of employees, compensation and unions, and administration topics.
001	MW	2022-AUG-31	5:30pm - 6:45pm	2022-DEC-17	HYFLX
GBUS 867 - Management Consulting
Introduction to management consulting. The class introduces consulting concepts and the five-phase consulting process and provides practical experience on consulting projects. The focus is both internal and external consultants, roles that provide timely counsel and / or service to organizations with specific issues that require a consulting perspective.
001	M	2022-AUG-31	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2022-DEC-19	HYFLX
GBUS 870 - Leadership: Theory & Practice
This course covers key leadership/management skills such as clarifying personal vision, coaching, goal setting, conflict management, stress management, emotional intelligence crisis management, process and system design and communication skills. Major competency models of leadership and management are covered to familiarize students with the research and practice of leadership development.
001	R	2022-AUG-31	7:00pm - 9:45pm		HYFLX
GBUS 873 - Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of negotiation and conflict resolution, including alternative dispute resolution.
001	W	2022-AUG-31	7:00pm - 9:45pm		HYFLX
GBUS 875 - Women in Leadership
This course is designed to enhance understanding of issues relevant to women in leadership and the implications for organizations (e.g., opportunities, exclusion). Topics include leadership styles, women on boards, strategies for change, learning to become a leader, media representation, intra-gender relations between women, cross-cultural considerations, and entrepreneurship. The course will combine both scholarly and practitioner-based considerations and challenge students to surface and unsettle taken for granted assumptions about women in leadership. Guest speakers from industry and academia will be invited to share their views on specific topics to enhance the learning experience.
001	MTWRS	2022-NOV-07	08:30am - 4:30pm		HYFLX
GBUS 876 - Managing Diversity
This course examines the increasing diversity of the work force and the resulting issues faced by organizations such as maintaining fairness and justice, making effective management decisions, allowing flexibility, and managing in a global environment. The course also examines legal frameworks that protect employee and employer rights related to dimensions of diversity.
001	TR	2022-AUG-31	5:30pm - 6:45pm	2022-DEC-20	HYFLX
GBUS 901 - Thesis Research
Thesis research.
001		2022-AUG-31	-
GBUS 902 - Research Project in Leadership
Under the guidance of a supervisor, the student analyzes a significant leadership problem with a view to recommending a feasible solution. Problems may be either specific or general, requiring either a particular disciplinary background or a multidisciplinary approach. The course will be graded on a credit/no credit (C/N) basis.
001		2022-AUG-31	-

MBA Courses Timetable

Section	Start	Time	Exam Date	Delivery
2024 Winter 2024 Spring/Summer 2024 Fall
MBA 704 - Foundations of Marketing
This course will assist the students in developing foundational knowledge of marketing concepts and theory. Tactical applications of the marketing mix are also addressed – product, price, place and promotion. Ethical and legal issues are also discussed.
001	2022-AUG-31	-		ONLNE
MBA 705 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship
This course explores the foundations of entrepreneurship including entrepreneurial motivations, start-up process, idea generation, venture capital, gender considerations, and various forms of entrepreneurship, such as accelerators, corporate venturing and social enterprise. The course also explores entrepreneurs’ alignment with other disciplines, including agile testing, lean analysis and business modeling.
001	2022-AUG-31	-		ONLNE
MBA 830 - Business, Government and Society
This course examines ethical and social issues relevant to business management. It includes a multidisciplinary application of knowledge and concepts to contemporary issues challenging business executives, and the role of consultation with local communities and governments, sustainable business practices and evolving global standards of corporate social responsibility and ethics.
001	2022-AUG-31	-	2022-DEC-22	ONLNE
MBA 899 - Integrative Practicum
The practicum requires students to integrate the knowledge and skills developed across the MBA program. In their practicum, students will analyse an organization and its environment, evaluate the organization’s activities in light of its strategy, and develop recommendations and an implementation plan that contributes to the organization’s future success.
006	2022-AUG-31	-