Managing Team and Workgroup Diversity
General
- Graduate
- 25 learners; teams of 5
- 14 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 1/1 project matches
- Tempe, Arizona, United States
- Academic experience
- Any
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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March 15, 2021Experience start
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March 23, 2021Project Scope Meeting
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April 6, 2021Needs Assessment
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May 5, 2021Experience end
Timeline
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March 15, 2021Experience start
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March 23, 2021Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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April 6, 2021Needs Assessment
The organization completes a needs assessment aimed at evaluating diversity and team and workgroup effectiveness.
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May 5, 2021Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Increasingly, workers are in close daily contact with people from different backgrounds. While this can add vibrancy and interest to the workplace culture, it can also increase friction as employees struggle to be understood across cultural divides. Organizations that take a proactive approach to create a positive, diverse workplace are more likely to benefit from the breadth of knowledge, skills, and perspectives diversity offers while mitigating some of the more negative effects that can arise as employees negotiate their differences. Students will help your organization to ensure well functioning diverse teams and workgroups through the goals outlined below.
- Learner skills
- Training, Teamwork, Business consulting, Organizational behavior & leadership, Diversity management
- Deliverables
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The final project deliverables will include the following:
- A needs assessment and analysis to help your organization to better understand team and workgroup related diversity challenges and opportunities.
- Students will custom design an online team training module designed to meet your organization's diversity-related team and workgroup challenges and opportunities.
- Students will provide suggestions for team development activities to promote the appreciation of cultural diversity that is customized to your organization’s needs.
Project Examples
Students will work to understand the organization’s culture and priorities to create customized diversity training aimed at increasing the understanding of, openness to, and appreciation of differences in the workplace. A focus will be placed on helping to create well-functioning, diverse teams, and workgroups.
Potentially, this strategy could include the following:
- An assessment and analysis of challenges and opportunities related to working in diverse teams and workgroups.
- A training module to address challenges and opportunities related to diversity and team effectiveness.
- Suggestions for team development activities to help improve team and workgroup function.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Complete organizational assessments provided by the students.
Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.