MGMT.4500 Managing Diversity in Organizations (Formerly MGMT/66.450)
Id: 006654 Credits: 3-3Description
This course explores the opportunities and challenges of working within an increasingly diverse workforce. Examines the knowledge and skills that employees and manages must develop to diagnose and address diversity-related conflicts and dilemmas and to leverage differences and commonalities as a catalyst for organizational learning and effectiveness. Special attention is paid to the effect of gender, socioeconomic, and racial diversity on individuals, work groups, and the organization as a whole.
Prerequisites
Pre-Req: MGMT.3010 Organizational Behavior, preference MG concentrators.
Course prerequisites/corequisites are determined by the faculty and approved by the curriculum committees. Students are required to fulfill these requirements prior to enrollment. For courses offered through online or GPS delivery, students are responsible for confirming with the instructor or department that all enrollment requirements have been satisfied before registering.