Are you interested in courses focusing on ethical issues? Check out one of these courses below. Please note that some of these courses are not offered regularly.
MGCR 460. Social Context of Business.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues
with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
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MGPO 450. Ethics in Management.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the economic, legal and ethical responsibilities of managers in both private and public organizations. Through readings, case studies, discussions and projects the class evaluates alternative ethical systems and norms of behaviour and draws conclusions as to the right, proper and just decisions and actions in the face of moral dilemmas. The focus of this course is on the decision process, values and consistency of values of the individual and on the impact of systems control and incentives on managerial morality.
- Restriction: U2 and U3 students only
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MGPO 438. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation 鈥� the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.
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MGSC 488. Sustainability and Operations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Social and environmental impacts of an organization鈥檚 operations. Regulatory environments, eco-efficiency concepts and measurement systems. Lifecycle analysis and exploring impacts linked to: product design, sourcing, production,
distribution, sales, and end-of-life recovery & treatment. Frameworks and best practices for reducing negative consequences and increasing positive ones.
- Restrictions: Open only to U2 and U3 students.
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RETL 410. Sustainable Retail and Entrepreneurship.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Stages of developing a business concept in sustainability and retail. The experiential learning component culminates in a competition where student teams will pitch their business ideas to a panel of external business experts.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 & U3 students.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 & U3 students.
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ACCT 401. Sustainability and Environmental Accounting.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Developing measures of corporate environmental performance, assessing their reliability and reporting to external stakeholders. Using sustainability metrics in strategic and operational business decisions. Implementing and utilizing
Environmental management systems and standards. Managing corporate environmental risks and accounting for environmental costs. Environmental auditing.
- Prerequisite: MGCR 211
- Open only to U2 and U3 students.
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MGPO 469. Managing Globalization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries.
- Recommended: MGCR 423
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 475. Strategies for Developing Countries.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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INDR 459. Comparative Employment Relations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Comparison of employment relations in current socio-political and economic context of a variety of nations. Emphasis on historical and recent developments in labour-management relations, labour legislation, institutional structures, collective bargaining, contract coverage, and the role of multi-national corporations.
- INDR459 focuses on traditional industrial relations topics (unionization, collective bargaining, etc.) and complements INDR492 which deals with labour policies in general and in comparative persepctive.
- Prequisite: INDR 294
- INDR459 focuses on traditional industrial relations topics (unionization, collective bargaining, etc.) and complements INDR492 which deals with labour policies in general and in comparative persepctive.
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INDR 492. Globalization and Labour Policy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of contemporary labour policies around the world in the context of globalization. Topics include labour market functioning, international trade, technological change, flexibility, employment standards, protective legislation, employment practices.
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INDR 494. Labour Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the basic concepts of labour law relevant to the practice of industrial relations. Historical development of labour law in certain social and legal systems and the culmination in the legislative enactments and jurisprudence of Canadian jurisdictions and certain comparative foreign models.
- Restriction: Open only to U2, U3 students.
- Prerequisite: INDR 294
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INDR 496. Collective Bargaining.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty Management)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Principles of collective bargaining in Canada and abroad. Problem oriented. Mock collective bargaining sessions provide an opportunity for students to apply knowledge gained.
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