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Archives:
April 16, 2008
Queen's IRC Road Show Heads West
January 29, 2008
Change management for feds: Program jointly developed with CSPS
December 17, 2007
Queen's IRC Senior Fellow Dr. David Weiss Garners International Accolades
November 15, 2007
Creative collaboration: Queen’s IRC and The Banff Centre join forces
October 16, 2007
The Conductive Organization: Leveraging Knowledge to Build Capability
August 29, 2007
Vic Pakalnis of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is Amethyst Fellow at Queen’s SPS
May 25, 2007
Queen's IRC Launches Ottawa Alumni Chapter
May 12, 2007
IRC Alumni Event in Halifax May 23, 2007
April 9, 2007
Queen’s IRC Granted $1 Million by Ontario Government for Contributions to IR Practitioner Education
March 15, 2007
HR Meeting of the Minds: Queen's Conference in Kingston
November 23, 2006
CBC’s HR/IR Leader Shares the Secrets of Strategic Negotiations
October 31, 2006
After the (Program) Rush: IRC Survey Shows How Organizational Learners Are Supported
October 30, 2006
Queen's IRC Launches First Alumni Chapter
October 24, 2006
CBC’S George Smith Presents Don Wood Lecture Nov. 9
August 3, 2006
Richard McKinnell of OPS Joins School of Policy Studies as a Fellow
July 19, 2006
New Director: Paul Juniper
June 9, 2006
Managing Across the Generations
June 1, 2006
Roy Heenan's Contributions Recognized with Award
May 29, 2006
Diversity Is the Spice of Organizational Life
May 19, 2006
Steve Lehrer Appointed NBER Research Fellow
March 21, 2006
Queen's IRC Symposium Papers Now Online
Feb 22, 2006
Queen’s MIR Program Welcomes New Professor
Feb 11, 2006
Buzz Hargrove on the State of the Unions
Oct 05, 2005
High Performance Professional Teams: A Symposium
Aug 25, 2005
IRC Director: The search for Dr. Beatty's successor begins
Aug 2, 2005
Popular SPS Fellow Is Going to the Senate
July 21, 2005
Former Queen's Business professor passes away
April 28, 2005
IRC has “Vision”: Centre wins major HR award
February 22, 2005
Change Management - Clinics
July 14, 2004
“Teams” Research Grants Announced
May 1, 2004
Industrial Relations Centre has a New Queen's Partner
April 15, 2004
Call for Research Papers: High Performance Professional Teams
January 6, 2004
Queen's IRC Makes Its Mark in School Board Reform
22 October 2003
OD Certificates: Presenting the IRC’s #1 Alumnus
June 22, 2003
IN MEMORIAM: Dr. William Donald Wood
May 15, 2003
Queen’s IRC Introduces Organization Development Training for HR Managers
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March 10, 2008
For immediate release
Deal or No Deal?
IRC Sponsors Inaugural Case Competition
Pit a number of keen, and competitive, graduate students from three universities against one another in a labour relations case competition and watch the sparks fly.
That is just what happened at the inaugural International Negotiations Cup Competition March 1, 2008, involving Master of Industrial Relations students from Queen’s and the University of Toronto as well as graduate students from Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The Competition, sponsored by Queen’s IRC, was the capstone of a two-day learning and networking event that attracted more than 50 students from Canada and the U.S..
On day one of the event, students discussed current labour relations trends, and heard from Queen’s Professor Pradeep Kumar and Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW) National Representative Ron Smith on the controversial agreement between the CAW and Magna International. In November 2007, the union and giant auto parts manufacturer signed the Framework of Fairness, which stipulates that if workers in individual plants accept the union as their bargaining agent, there would be no strikes. Binding arbitration will instead be used to settle differences that might normally lead to a picket line.
On day two, teams from each university competed in a complex, multi-party negotiations exercise, with students from theUniversity of Toronto taking home the new inter-university negotiations competition cup. “It was really impressive to see the students, who are tomorrow’s labour relations leaders, excel at handling this real-world case,” says Paul Juniper, Director of Queen’s Industrial Relations Centre who was on hand to present the trophy to the winning team. ”The IRC is proud to sponsor the competition and we look forward to next year’s event.”
Queen’s MIR program has a long-standing commitment to teaching and research in labour relations and human resource management. It is a 12- month professional program with a practitioner focus, designed to prepare students for a variety of career opportunities.
Established in 1937, Queen’s IRC is Canada’s leading university management development unit for practitioners in labour relations, human resource management, and organizational development.
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