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Program Requirements

The Graduate Certificate in Advanced Human Resources Management focuses on the competencies needed to strategically manage and promote the development of organizations. Specialized competencies in areas such as compensation and rewards, technology and innovation in human resources, talent, and performance management, and strategically managing staff.

Required Courses (12 credits)

• CORG 661 Developing Human Resources. (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Human performance technology and organizational learning models addressing individual, team, and organizational performance problems: diagnosing workplace situations, identifying causes, selecting appropriate interventions, implementing change, and evaluating results; increasing client capability; delivering results while considering internal and external factors affecting performance (competing pressures and resource constraints); strategic, legal, and ethical implications.

  Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024

  Instructors: Witvoet, Gerrit Jan (Fall) Witvoet, Gerrit Jan (Winter)

  • Not open to students who have taken CORG 561.

• CORG 662 Total Compensation and Rewards (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Strategic compensation management within a behavioural framework to understand rewards and motivation, work, satisfaction, and performance. Use of financial and non-financial rewards to attract, retain, and motivate. Legal, economic, ethical, and culture-fit issues in the design and implementation of direct and indirect compensation policies and systems.

  Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024

  Instructors: Forest, Pierre (Fall) Forest, Pierre (Winter)

  • Not open to students who have taken CORG 562.

• CORG 665 Technology and Innovation in Human Resources (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Examination of new human resources information systems (HRIS) that facilitate innovative processes within an organization and its ecosystem. Focus on using technology to support an organization’s optimization needs. Overview of current human resources trends, recruitment software, change management, human resources metrics, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and increasingly sophisticated payroll systems, including those using blockchain technologies.

  Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024

  Instructors: De Lisi, Giancarlo (Fall) De Lisi, Giancarlo (Winter)

  • Not open to students who have taken CORG 565.

• CORG 667 Talent and Performance Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Succession planning and performance management systems, processes, and tools. Topics include: performance management strategies, measurement, indicators, and reviews. Selecting effective and practical processes, methods, and tools to assess and increase current and future organizational performance.

  Terms: Winter 2024

  Instructors: Vazan, Danielle (Winter)

  • Not open to students who have taken CORG 557.

Complementary Courses (3 credits)

3 credits from:

• CORG 653 Employee and Labour Relations (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Industrial relations framework; its legal, political, social, economic, ecological and ethical, subsystems. Processes governing union-management relations, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution; and the roles of executives, supervisors, employees, employee representatives, and Human Resources - Industrial Relations professionals in effective employee relations in unionized and non-unionized environments.

  Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Summer 2024

  Instructors: Westgate, Chantal (Fall) Rochefort, Pascal (Winter) Rochefort, Pascal (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken CORG 553.

• CORG 654 Managing Occupational Health and Safety (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : How to develop, implement, and manage effective health and safety programs; competencies and roles of employees, supervisors, executives, and Human Resources; strategic, legal, and ethical implications of legislation; risk behaviour; socio-psychological aspects of mental and physical health and safety issues; communications and training strategies.

  Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Summer 2024

  Instructors: El Moumni, Sophia (Fall) Robinson, Beverley (Winter) El Moumni, Sophia (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken CORG 554.

Or another 600-level course offered by the School of Continuing Studies and approved by the program adviser or academic unit.