Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources

XBIT 4500U
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Main contact
Ontario Tech University
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Experiential Learning Coordinator
5
Timeline
  • January 19, 2026
    Program start
  • April 13, 2026
    Program end
Program
1 projects wanted
Dates set by program
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Program scope

Categories
Compensation analysis Organizational structure Employee retention Workplace culture Workplace health/wellness
Skills
project planning business consulting business strategy marketing strategy leadership hr consulting employee handbook development employee communications employee motivation talent management
Learner goals and capabilities

The Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources (OBHR) major helps students develop the skills and knowledge required to transform an organization’s most important asset, human capital, into a sustainable competitive advantage. OBHR professionals play a key role in achieving organizations’ strategic objectives by implementing human resource solutions, such as managing talent, providing training and facilitating organizational change. By graduation, students will possess comprehensive knowledge of business functions, organizational processes, and external environments, with specialized expertise in Human Resource Management (HRM). Specifically, they will apply HRM theories and practices to recruitment, training, industrial relations, health and safety, and employee motivation, critically evaluate HR tools and methods, and develop evidence-based strategies to attract, retain, and engage talent aligned with organizational goals.



Beginning in January 2026, teams of 3-5 students will work with your organization to support you in achieving your key business objectives by developing a recommended plan of action.

*Please note that the course dates are subject to change depending on the University's scheduling*

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Intermediate, Advanced levels
5 learners
Project
50 hours per learner
Coordinators assign learners to projects
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables
  • Project plan and weekly status reports (sent to industry partners/employers)
  • Final project deliverables with recommendations and an executive summary (sent to industry partners/employers)
  • Final Presentation (industry partners/employers will be invited)
Project timeline
  • January 19, 2026
    Program start
  • April 13, 2026
    Program end

Project examples

Health and Wellness Program Development

  • A review of your current Health and Wellness Program (if applicable).
  • An analysis of your industry benchmarks and trends in corporate health and wellness.
  • Conducting a survey of your employees to determine which health and wellness initiatives would be valued.
  • Developing recommendations and creative ideas to incorporate health and wellness into the workplace with the intent of lowering illness, injury, and absenteeism.
  • Developing a Health and Wellness Program that is tailored to your organization’s budget and culture.
  • Providing benchmark metrics on the ROI of Health and Wellness Programs.

Compensation Recommendations

  • A review of your current rewards and total compensation.
  • An analysis of your industry benchmarks around rewards and compensation.
  • Helping you to establish rewards that are aligned with your corporate culture.
  • Determining how your total compensation package is perceived internally and externally.
  • Providing recommendations to enhance the perceived value of your current rewards and total compensation plan.
  • Providing strategic recommendations to improve your organization’s rewards and total compensation plan.

Onboarding Plan

  • A review of your current onboarding plan.
  • An analysis of your industry benchmarks around onboarding.
  • Helping you to establish an onboarding plan that is aligned with your corporate culture.
  • Determining how your onboarding plan is perceived by current and new employees.
  • Providing recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of your onboarding plan.

Diversity and Inclusion Recommendations

  • Developing a roll out plan for incorporating diverse practices into your workforce and explaining its positive benefits
  • Developing a plan to re-imagine your mission, vision, and purpose and roll it out to employees.
  • Creating a strategy for attracting more diverse talent
  • A comparison of how your organization’s equitable practices stack up with similar companies
  • Suggestions for incorporating diversity training

Employee Motivation Assessment

  • Developing extrinsic motivational strategies such as rewards, bonuses, time-off, etc.
  • Developing intrinsic motivational strategies such as viewpoints and perspectives
  • Developing language guides to help supervisors and management teams maintain motivation

Organizational Behaviour Consultancy

  • •\Manage a significant organizational change or restructuring.
  • Reduce employee turnover or absenteeism or increase workplace safety.
  • Integrate cultures in a merger or acquisition.
  • Develop an environmental sustainability plan.
  • Redesign an internal system or process including hiring, socialization, compensation, motivation, team management, learning, and training.
  • Develop a plan to re-imagine your mission, vision, and purpose and roll it out to employees.
  • Assess your organizational structure's fit with your organization's strategy.
  • Develop a plan to increase diversity and its' positive effects in your organization

Additional company criteria

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

  • Q1 - Checkbox
    Be available for a quick phone call with the coordinator to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.  *
  • Q2 - Checkbox
    Provide a dedicated contact to answer periodic emails or take phone calls as needed to address student questions in a timely manner. Students will be coached to make judicious use of your time.  *
  • Q3 - Checkbox
    Complete Capstone Project Proposal documentation one week after initial Riipen project meeting with the university.  *
  • Q4 - Checkbox
    Be available to attend a kick-off with all teams during the first week of the semester. The kick-off will be a Q & A opportunity for all teams to solidify understanding of timeline and requirements.  *
  • Q5 - Checkbox
    Commit to a minimum of 5 interactions (approximately 1 hour each) with the five student teams remotely, approximately 4–6 hours minimum over the duration of the project. These contacts are likely to be question/answer sessions or requests for additional information or clarification.  *
  • Q6 - Checkbox
    Be available to attend a presentation of the project in-person at the showcase (can be scheduled virtually as an individual presentation also).  *
  • Q7 - Text short
    Provide team feedback twice over the semester and complete a post course evaluation.