Instructor: Gerard Seijts - Space shuttle Columbia’s final mission – what went wrong - Johnsonville Sausage – originally top down leadership, but now a much more inclusive organization allowing for more input and bottom up contribution to the company - GE's two decade transformation – how can a company engage and mobilize their employees to become involved in company activities, contribute more to the health and prosperity of company more than just showing up to work every day for eight hours. - Stratford Festival Case - Turnaround at the Stratford Festival - how to deal with issues affecting a cultural institution Department: Human Resource Management Course Name: Managing People (Business 9411) Instructor: Lyn Purdy CXP Publishing - alleged sexual harassment within the firm, and what managers should do in this situation. Barling Financial - sexual harassment complaint filed, deals with how management dealt with complaint and discussion surrounds how managers should deal with this type of situation. Nextech - deals with employment equity regarding women, visible minorities, people with disabilities, in terms of salary, promotions, etc. Department: Information Technology and Systems (MIS/IT) Course Name: Leveraging Information Technology (Business 9207) Instructor: Nicole Haggerty Course looks at technology and its place in business and discusses cases that had huge social ramifications. Waterloo Regional Police Services (SIMS) project – dates back to the Paul Bernardo case. Resulting from a lack of information sharing between police departments, allowing Paul Bernardo to rape women in different jurisdictions and get away with it for a long time due to inability to track pattern across jurisdictions. Indian Oil – replicate best business practices, but having a hard time doing so due to different regulatory standards and altogether different markets. University Health Network – medical administration at UHN in Toronto – case if part written and part video. Students help develop and implementation plan – big goal is the reduction of medical errors.
government (both political and bureaucratic), as well as the economic drivers that influence decision-making. These motivational factors will be looked at from both the public perspective, as well as the private industry perspective in the Health sector. Department: Strategy Course Name: Developing and Executing Strategies (9206) Instructors: Michael Rouse and Mary Crossan Topics include: Wal-Mart – cross-enterprise case looking at accounting, marketing, operations, IT, finance; talk about corporate responsibility – pricing, moving jobs overseas. US Airline Industry – social – environmentalism, change in people’s perspectives regarding environmental impacts of flying. WestJet – strong corporate culture, receptive to employee concerns, employee-owned company, good employee relations. Lincoln Electric – demonstrate interconnectedness between organization and its environment; employees work on piece work; mainly type A personalities willing to work hard to buy into American dream; wealth distribution. Starbucks – globalization, knocking the little guys out, free trade coffee, sociological reasons for switching to free trade. Bell Canada VoIP – springboard to disruptive business models looking at a case study of a business providing advertising on internet - 90% of profits to charity. White Rose – case about bad decision making leading to the demise of the company - social implications for employees. GE Energy Management – reducing C footprint through reduced energy use in institutions via better insulation, HVAC and lighting. Greg Dyke (BBC) – resigned over false reporting in Iraq war, lack of responsibility to report honestly in the media Merck – invest in drug when no market. Department: Strategy Course Name: Global Strategy (9421) Instructor: Shih-Fen Chen Topics covered in this course include managing the cultural environment; serving consumers; managing human resources; and doing business in less developed countries. All these topics have social implications. One class is devoted to International Business Ethics, looking at labor practices, environmental impact, human rights. Department: Strategy Course Name: Corporate Strategy (9431) Instructor: Glenn Rowe China National Petroleum Corporation - used to frame course; illustrates downsizing versus down scoping; have 1.5M employees - every times they build a town, they pay for everything(hospitals, police, etc); issue is that they want to download this to government; looking at it from an emerging market perspective.
Online Academic Calendar: To lessen the impact on the environment, effective February 2009, the Office of the Registrar only produces an online version of the Academic Calendar for students. There was an immediate impact on the environment - we are saving more than 11,040,000 sheets of paper (24,000 copies of the Academic Calendar) this year alone. Plastic Bags: The Book Store at Western introduced several initiatives to reduce plastic bags and their detrimental effects on the environment: 1. The Book Store gave away reusable shopping bags to new students and parents during Student Academic Orientation, Homecoming and special events. Reusable bags are also sold in the store. 2. The Book Store switched to biodegradable plastic bags, which decompose in 12 to 24 months as opposed to regular plastic bags, which can take decades if not centuries to biodegrade. Eateries Reducing Paper & Packaging: Hospitality Services completely eliminated the use of styrofoam from its Residence Dining Halls. New bio-degradable and compostable take-out containers are being phased in. Paper cups are not recyclable and account for a significant amount of waste at Western. A discount, provided to customers who purchase a hot beverage with a travel mug, is helping to promote alternatives to paper cups. Herbicides / Pesticides: Harmful fungicide and pesticides are used on campus and haven't been for more than a decade. Grounds will be phasing out herbicides for weed control on hard surface (between sidewalk slabs). There is a plan to rely on natural remedies in a conversion to all environmental products. The Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment have requested that infestations that may harm the public or environment are controllable with chemicals. The process for chemical use is lengthy and requires approval from the government prior to application.