Managing Diversity


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
"The management of diversity really just means managing people well." Fern Lebo, quoted in Wheatley and Griffiths, 1997. This course shows you how to manage people well. You will establish the background to diversity practices, be able to make a strong case for diversity, and explore a blueprint for the implementation of diversity in any workplace. Finally, you will examine some of the major issues in diversity: age, gender, ethnicity and disability. The course will help you to see the truth in R. Roosevelt Thomas' words: "Managers have to manage people not like themselves," and be able to put into effect actions to bring these words to life.

Target Audience
Managers or supervisors who are concerned with diversity issues in their organisations.

Expected Duration (hours)
5.0

Lesson Objectives

The Case for Diversity

  • recognise the benefits of implementing diversity practices in the workplace.
  • distinguish between the concepts of diversity and equal opportunities.
  • determine which advantages a company can gain by developing diversity practices.
  • recognise successful and unsuccessful initiatives for implementing diversity.
  • analyse the changes in, application of, and effectiveness of equal opportunities and diversity initiatives in the UK, from supplied data.

    • Implementing Diversity

  • recognise the value of establishing a model of actions to aid in implementing diversity practices.
  • apply the four-stage model for effectively implementing diversity practices in a given scenario.
  • determine whether a given company has applied good practice in communicating the implementation of diversity strategies.
  • apply good practice in policies and procedures to implement diversity strategies in a given situation.

    • Managing the Diverse Workforce

  • recognise the benefits of knowing the requirements for managing diversity.
  • select the key characteristics of a diverse workforce.
  • identify the attributes of the key skills that managers need to effectively implement diversity initiatives.
  • apply best practice in managing a diverse workforce.
  • characterise a culture of diversity.

    • Course Number:
    HR8124