Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources

Timeline
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September 3, 2024Experience start
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December 3, 2024Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Leadership Organizational structure CommunicationsSkills
project planning business consulting business strategy marketing strategyThe Organizational Behavior and Human Resources (OBHR) major helps students develop the skills and knowledge required to transform an organization’s most important asset – its human capital – into a sustainable competitive advantage. OBHR professionals play a key role in achieving organizations’ strategic objectives by implementing human resource solutions, such as managing talent, providing training and facilitating organizational change. By completing the requirements for the OBHR major, students complete all the coursework necessary to qualify for their Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) professional designation.
For more information including course details please see here.
Beginning in Sept 2024, teams of 3-5 students will work with your organization to support you with achieving your key business objectives by developing a recommended plan of action.
* Please note that the course dates are subject to change depending on University scheduling*
Learners
- Project plan and weekly status reports
- Final project report with recommendations and an executive summary
- Presentation of recommendations from top one or two teams (via a virtual webinar format)
Project timeline
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September 3, 2024Experience start
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December 3, 2024Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Health and Wellness Program Development
- A review of your current Health and Wellness Program (if applicable).
- An analysis of your industry benchmarks and trends in corporate health and wellness.
- Conducting a survey of your employees to determine which health and wellness initiatives would be valued.
- Developing recommendations and creative ideas to incorporate health and wellness into the workplace with the intent of lowering illness, injury, and absenteeism.
- Developing a Health and Wellness Program that is tailored to your organization’s budget and culture.
- Providing benchmark metrics on the ROI of Health and Wellness Programs.
Compensation Recommendations
- A review of your current rewards and total compensation.
- An analysis of your industry benchmarks around rewards and compensation.
- Helping you to establish rewards that are aligned with your corporate culture.
- Determining how your total compensation package is perceived internally and externally.
- Providing recommendations to enhance the perceived value of your current rewards and total compensation plan.
- Providing strategic recommendations to improve your organization’s rewards and total compensation plan.
Onboarding Plan
- A review of your current onboarding plan.
- An analysis of your industry benchmarks around onboarding.
- Helping you to establish an onboarding plan that is aligned with your corporate culture.
- Determining how your onboarding plan is perceived by current and new employees.
- Providing recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of your onboarding plan.
Diversity and Inclusion Recommendations
- Developing a roll out plan for incorporating diverse practices into your workforce and explaining its positive benefits
- Developing a plan to re-imagine your mission, vision, and purpose and roll it out to employees.
- Creating a strategy for attracting more diverse talent
- A comparison of how your organization’s equitable practices stack up with similar companies
- Suggestions for incorporating diversity training
Employee Motivation Assessment
- Developing extrinsic motivational strategies such as rewards, bonuses, time-off, etc.
- Developing intrinsic motivational strategies such as viewpoints and perspectives
- Developing language guides to help supervisors and management teams maintain motivation
Organizational Behaviour Consultancy
- •\Manage a significant organizational change or restructuring.
- Reduce employee turnover or absenteeism or increase workplace safety.
- Integrate cultures in a merger or acquisition.
- Develop an environmental sustainability plan.
- Redesign an internal system or process including hiring, socialization, compensation, motivation, team management, learning, and training.
- Develop a plan to re-imagine your mission, vision, and purpose and roll it out to employees.
- Assess your organizational structure's fit with your organization's strategy.
- Develop a plan to increase diversity and its' positive effects in your organization
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Timeline
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September 3, 2024Experience start
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December 3, 2024Experience end