Building Future Organizations. This specialization provides a guide to understanding diversity and preventing homogeneity in an organization.
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What will you learn?
“Diversity Fundamentals” is the first course in IE University’s “Journey to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging” specialization. This course will provide participants with basic tools for dealing with diversity and diverse organizations. During the course, participants will analyze how to promote diversity in demographic groups such as:
The course will also empower participants to identify the challenges posed by diversity. By the end of the course, participants will gain practical knowledge about managing diversity in organizations and teams.
Students, young professionals as well as older, experienced professionals who are interested in better understanding what diversity is and its cardinal role in an organization.
What will you learn?
“Cognitive and Experiential Space” is the second course in a specialization called “The Journey to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.” This course takes an innovative approach to understanding diversity by exploring the nature of cognitive and experiential diversity. Understanding these “invisible” forms of diversity is essential to organizational success, and fostering this diversity among organizational members will lead to innovation and disruption.
Join us for this course to expand and challenge your understanding of diversity.
What will you learn?
This course on Diversity and Inclusion in Business and Organizations will support individuals, teams, and organizations to better understand and implement policies and practices to promote inclusion and belonging for all employees. We aim to cover the following topics:
The final session of the course provides supplemental resources to connect course concepts and support the organization’s affiliation efforts.
What will you learn?
For any team to perform at its best, it is important that its members feel valued. This only happens if the team, starting with the leader, fosters an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and be valued for their unique skills and perspectives.
We will introduce you to familiar frameworks, including Catherine Sorrell’s model of intercultural praxis, which will serve as a guide for this course. Using this model, we will learn how to raise awareness of our responses to differences, streamline critical analysis, and develop responsible social action.
In this course, we will also review some of the basic terms that make up the inclusion process. We will discuss theories about inclusion in organizations, and provide you with strategies for how to respond when an exclusionary situation occurs within your team. In addition to the basic knowledge you will gain in this course, you will also receive a practical toolkit for promoting an inclusive environment.
This course can be studied independently or in conjunction with secondary courses: Fundamentals of Diversity; Cognitive and Experiential Diversity; and Diversity and Belonging in Business and Organizations.
