Human Resources Management ORGB423
General
- Undergraduate; 2nd year, 3rd year
- 10 learners; teams of 5
- 20 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Educators assign learners to projects
Preferred companies
- 1/2 project matches
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Small to medium enterprise, Startup, Large enterprise, Non profit
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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February 5, 2024Experience start
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February 5, 2024Students reach out to your organization
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March 25, 2024Students complete both interviews
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April 1, 2024Final report submitted
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April 15, 2024Experience end
Timeline
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February 5, 2024Experience start
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February 5, 2024Students reach out to your organization
They form teams week of Jan 29,
Week of Feb 5 they will do their first reach out
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March 25, 2024Students complete both interviews
From Feb. 19th to March 25th, students would conduct their initial interviews with each representative of your organization. If more information is needed, they may ask for a follow-up interview with one or both of the representatives. Students are not required to gather feedback from your organization beyond the two data-collection interviews.
Note there is a reading break from March 4-8.
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April 1, 2024Final report submitted
Week of April 1st tentatively
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April 15, 2024Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Students in the BCom program complete this course in their second or third year at McGill. Students come from diverse backgrounds with a wide variety of concentrations including Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Business Analytics, Marketing, Operations Management, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Strategic Management and Sustainability. Students outside of the BCom program or exchange students may also take this course as an elective, adding to the diversity of our class. Some students have completed internships in human resources and/or in other management fields.
This is a great opportunity to work with leaders of tomorrow, foster a relationship with McGill, as well as start a talent pipeline for your organization. You may get inspiration and some fresh ideas from the students.
- Learner skills
- Human resource strategy, Business analytics, Marketing operations management, Performance management, Talent pipelining, Finance, Organizational behavior, Strategic management, Human resource management, Training and development
- Deliverables
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Student teams will deliver a 12 to 15-page report identifying their analysis of the HR process they studied within your organization and formulating a solution and recommendations. Common project topics for students could be related to employee recruitment and selection, onboarding, training and development, performance management and evaluation, compensation structure, health & safety at work, equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as overall HR strategy. Students will have the option to share their findings with you, if they are comfortable doing so. You have the option to make this a requirement, if you inform them from the start that one of your conditions to participate is for them to share their report with you at the end.
Project Examples
A core component of this undergraduate course is a group project where students collect human resources (HR) data and consult on an HR process in your organization. Students will apply course-specific knowledge and skills to produce relevant recommendations. They will subsequently curate, share, and showcase their insights in a report.
For Winter 2024, there are 45 students in class, working on various organizations in groups of 5. A student team will be assigned to your organization during the week of February 5. Students will interview an employee or manager affected by an HR process, as well as an employee or manager working in HR. The two staff in your organization participating in this class project should budget approximately two hours over the course of the semester, one hour for the initial interview and another hour to answer additional questions (if needed).These interviews will be held virtually outside of class time. The student team and your representatives will communicate via email for scheduling purposes and for other exchanges pertinent to the project.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Would you want students to share their report with you, as a condition of working with your organization?