Undergraduates and Human Resources

BUSI 3102
Closed
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
RM
Associate Professor
(1)
3
General
  • Undergraduate; 3rd year
  • 180 learners; teams of 5
  • 10 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 2/1 project matches
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Large enterprise, Small to medium enterprise
  • Any
Categories
General Leadership Organizational structure Talent recruitment Product or service launch
Skills
business strategy communication research
Project timeline
  • January 10, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 25, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • February 9, 2022
    Followup Meeting with Students
  • April 2, 2022
    Experience end
Overview
Details

Does your company want ideas and input from undergraduate students on human resource initiatives such as onboarding, hiring, training or evaluating employees? The course has three sections of 60 third-year undergraduate students for a potential total of 180 students from the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, with a variety of business course backgrounds. The students will provide ideas and recommendations based on their research, experience and perspectives.

Learner skills
Business strategy, Communication, Research
Deliverables

Group or individually written reports providing some or all of the following:

  • Research
  • Analysis
  • Recommendations
  • Creative ideas
  • Implementing, process and timeline recommendations
  • Short video clips outlining key ideas of the reports.

Project Examples

Students working individually or in groups will address organizational human resource related challenges. The project would be designed to capture the interest of the organization and the students to maximize the creative ideas and genuine input.

Project Subject Examples:

  • On-boarding new employees when employees are working from the office, home and/or transitioning back to the office. What does the graduating generation hope and expect during on-boarding? How can an organization make the process successful leading to the retention of new employees?
  • Training online or in person for the fastest uptake of information. How can training build on experiential events? How does this generation prefer to learn and be trained? How can the training and development process lead to the greatest productivity of the employee?
  • Hiring to attract the most appropriate employees who will be interested in the position and the organization and look to stay with the organization. How best to share a job snapshot that allows applicants to determine if the job is a good fit.
  • Selection processes that make new hires feel committed to an organization from the start and avoids turnover.
  • Evaluating employees in the current environment where employees are working from home, the office or both. This group of students would provide their perspective. Do they want a traditional review/feedback process or do they prefer the continuous feedback approach through an app?

Other project idea related to human resources are also of interest. Please contact the professor through Riipen’s chat to determine if these ideas or an alternative idea could fit the project.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails, attend Zoom meetings or take phone calls from the professor over the duration of the project to address professor and students' questions.

Meet with each class two times through Zoom (3 classes 2 times each). The first meeting would be to outline the project details and the second meeting would be to answer students questions.

Work with the professor to create a Non-Disclosure Agreement for students to sign before the project begins

Provide general grading input or project feedback for the submissions.