Programme Overview
The diversity management course will give you insights into the benefits, critical factors and process required to manage diversity successfully within the private sector context. Critical issues including gender, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, disability, age, sexual orientation, education and economic diversity are analysed. Ways of maximising organisational performance and developing a culture of mutual respect and trust by proactively managing diversity are explored. The benefit of diverse groups in organisations is that it often assists people to think more broadly as there is more than one view on an issue. Moreover, exchanging practices and stories about each other’s diverse backgrounds fosters a climate of greater understanding about each other and provides the ingredients for innovative thinking.
Learning Outcomes
- Be familiar with diversity management terminology, concepts and context
- Appreciate the benefits and importance of strategically managing diversity in terms of organisational performance
- Understand Afro centric and Euro centric values, behaviours and differences
- Be familiar with challenges and strategies of ensuring gender and disability equity in the workplace
- Be able to initiate and implement diversity management processes culminating in a diversity policy and programme of action
- Be able to promote a new organisational culture based on equity with new values and behaviours
- Be familiar with best practice in diversity management
- Be familiar with the critical success and failure factors of diversity management
Duration
- 2 days contact time including facilitation and group activities.
