Advanced Management Skills

Explore the theory and practice of managing human resources as you learn about the fundamental functions and competencies needed by HR practitioners and supervisors today. Discover the employee life cycle, from job design, recruitment, and orientation to training and career development, and discipline.

This course is not offered at this time. Please email yvirji@langara.ca for details.

Learn about managing employee performance within an organization and the performance management process. Performance fundamentals will be covered, including defining performance expectations, performance appraisals, evaluations and recognizing how performance management can improve your organization.

Learn why organizations are required to undergo change management and how this is critical for both organizations and employees. You will learn concepts, fundamentals and best practices of change management in this course.

This course will explore some introductory concepts about unions and union trends in Canada. We will discuss difference between legislation for unionized and nonunionized workplaces/employees, provincial and federal legislation. We will also review basic concepts about British Columbia Labour Code and British Columbia Labour Relations Board.