Course description
By the conclusion of the specified learning and development activities, delegates will be able to: Distinguish between equal opportunities and diversity management; Demonstrate an understanding of the Equal Opportunities Legislation and its implications for organisational operation; Demonstrate their awareness of the bases for racial, ethnic and gender discrimination, focusing on the social identity perspective; Be able to determine the organisational benefits of organisational diversity, on the bases of cost, resource acquisition, marketing, creativity & system flexibility; Be aware of vital diversity factoids, useful to their organisation’s effective operation; Be able to design a system by which organisational diversity will be managed; Have devised a managed approach to organisational culture; Have devised a strategy for the creation of a bias-free human resource management; Have devised ways to encourage a ‘gender friendly’ work environment - manifest in a bias-free career & promotion system and reduction in work-family conflict; Demonstrate their understanding of ‘sentience’ as a basis for discrimination; Have devised a system by which gender, racial and ethnic heterogeneity are promoted; Be aware of the de-moralising effect of ‘resonation’; Be able to recognise resonation, taking the necessary steps to avert or prevent its reoccurrence; Demonstrate their ability to manage complaints and disciplinary systems in such a way that all opportunities for discrimination are removed; Demonstrate their ability to apply their knowledge of organisational diversity to reducing the likelihood of ‘sentience’; Have applied their understanding of organisational diversity to promote a desirable level of cohesiveness, reducing the likelihood of ‘groupthink’; Have demonstrated competence in ‘diversity counselling’; Have demonstrated expertise in ‘relationship management’; Have exhibited the ability to detect tendencies towards ‘sentience’ as a direct result of diversity; Have demonstrated the ability to effectively manage in situations where sentience exists, progressing towards its elimination; Have demonstrated their ability to formulate, implement and monitor an effective diversity policy. Demonstrate exceptional leadership in the management of a diverse workforce.
