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This program will provide the critical skills leaders and managers need to succeed and prosper. You will have an opportunity to assess your strengths and find out where improvement is needed. More importantly, you will be given the tools and practice to improve your performance. The emphasis throughout this program will be on using hands-on techniques to help you master competencies to create strategic focus within your organizations and achieve both personal and organizational goals.

Building effective economic policy will help achieve more successful, sustainable and self-determined economic activity. In this program, fundamental issues of governance such as the creation of culturally appropriate governmental institutions and the role of Aboriginal leaders in effectively planning, creating and promoting economic policy for self-determined Aboriginal development will be examined.

The Bachelor of Management Indigenous Nations and Organizations (INO) Major is designed in response to remarkable changes in the educational needs of Indigenous peoples, particularly the need for business-related education. This new and unique business program, offered only at Athabasca University, will enable you to focus on principles of Indigenous business and governance. This major blends cultural relevance into the core management curriculum. The program also acknowledges and develops the role of traditional knowledge in academic institutions.

This two-year program provides students with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to perform the responsibilities in an administrative and management/leadership capacity within a First Nation organization or community. Students receive focused instruction in First Nation government systems based on the Inherent and Treaty Rights of First Nations. The curriculum provides learners with an appreciation of indigenous forms of governance and organizational development, from pre-contact to the present, including modern forms of organizational and management principles.