Fall Term

Meeting Dates:
September 25th and November 6th 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

MOB 7543: Managing in a Diverse Workplace - Blended

This blended learning intensive format course focuses on understanding the factors that create leaking talent pipelines with respect to diversity in the workplace. The course begins with a full-day face-to-face session on Friday of Week 1 then continues with online content and asynchronous discussion forums in weeks two through six and culminates with another full-day face-to-face session on Friday of Week 7. The course will first examine the context for the so-called war on talent and the need and opportunity to effectively diversify the talent pool and leadership pipeline. Next, it examines the underlying social norms and organizational barriers that may engender talent loss and considers examples of how organizations set and implement policy to attract and retain a diverse talent pool and the challenges they face in doing so. Finally the course concludes with the perspective of the manager, looking at how social identity impacts individuals and the choices they make, both for themselves and in their managerial roles. The focus throughout the course will be on ways to enhance effectiveness in managing a diverse group of employees. Students will work in study groups on a weekly basis and to complete the final course project.

This is a 3 credit, special schedule. F2F sessions will be September 25th and November 6th with online work in the intermediate weeks. Students should expect to check the online course website regularly during each week.

Prerequisite: Completion of the One Year, Two Year or Fast Track modules or completion of MOB8500.

Spring Term

MOB 7543: Managing in a Diverse Workplace

This blended learning format course focuses on understanding the factors that create leaking talent pipelines with respect to diversity in the workplace. The course begins with a face-to-face session on Friday, March 6th then continues with online content and asynchronous discussion forums in the next six weeks and culminates with another face-to-face session on Friday, April 24th. The course will first examine the context for the so-called war on talent and the need and opportunity to effectively diversify the talent pool and leadership pipeline. Next, it examines the underlying social norms and organizational barriers that may engender talent loss and considers examples of how organizations set and implement policy to attract and retain a diverse talent pool and the challenges they face in doing so. Finally the course concludes with the perspective of the manager, looking at how social identity impacts individuals and the choices they make, both for themselves and in their managerial roles. The focus throughout the course will be on ways to enhance effectiveness in managing a diverse group of employees.

This is a 3 credit, special schedule. F2F sessions will be Friday March 6, 9-4 and Friday April 24, 9-3 with online work in the intermediate weeks.