Sessional Instructional Assistant: MGT 1210 - Managerial Economics

Date Posted: 04/24/2024
Req ID: 36889
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: MMPA
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

This position is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Course Description:  This course presents economic principles that explain the operation of markets and firms and shows how economic reasoning can provide useful insights for practicing managers, particularly with regard to strategies for dealing with the firm’s business environment. Theories of consumer demand, the economic nature and function of business firms, optimal business decision rules, game theory, and economics of strategy, are presented. Efficiency criteria pertaining to the operation of firms and markets, the role of property rights, the scope for public policy, are also examined.

Course Title: MGT 1210 - Managerial Economics

Number of positions: 1

Estimated course enrollment: 50 students

Estimated TA support: 64 hours

Sessional dates of appointment: June 3, 2024 - August 9, 2024

Salary: $52.26 + 4% vacation pay (CUPE dues deducted by accounting officer)

Qualifications: 

• Preference for a PhD in Economics

Description of duties: 

• Tutoring students as required
• Office hours
• Grading
• Invigilating (where required)

Application instructions: Please submit your application by completing the online Application Form . Your resume and transcript are required to apply.

Contact information:
Nadine Mcharafie, Program Coordinator
[email protected]
MMPA Program Office, Innovation Complex, Room 2202
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON  L5L 1C6

Please submit your application no later than the closing date of the job posting.  Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Only applicants who are chosen for a position will be contacted.

Closing Date: 04/26/2024, 11:59PM EDT
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This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. 

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.  

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.