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Leadership Diversity Training Program
The
student is to design an educational workshop that will bring a group of senior
level managers together to explore, discuss, and strategize about how to
address and advance diversity and inclusion in their respective departments,
divisions, and entire organization. The organization you have been invited to
present to has 300 employees with multiple leaders and managers. Here is the
situation students must consider as they build their workshop process, details,
and strategies.
1.This
organization is taking its first steps to implement and diversity and inclusion
(D&I) strategy for all employees. All efforts previously have been informal
and built around mandatory compliance training (as advised by the legal counsel
for the organization). There is now a strong push to move from D&I
training as compliance to D&I training as deeper understanding leading to
commitment and then leading to compliance.
2. These senior
leaders and managers are have not openly discussed together their personal and
thoughts and feelings about diversity and inclusion. The tension and stress
among the senior leadership team is palpable.
3. Many employees have felt that D&I has
not been a priority for these leaders and thus for the organization. As a
result, this organization is starting to lose talented and diverse employees
who feel as though the communities of diversity they represent are not valued
or wanted.
4. These leaders
and managers will need support, encouragement, and honest
conversation to implement strategies and approaches that will help address
the issue retention “and” beginning to build a culture where D&I become a
part of this organization’s culture.
5. There will need to be personal metrics and
organizational metrics that the leaders and managers can use to know they are
making progress as individual professionals and also as an organization.
Students are to design a specific, implementable, and operational workshop
strategy that will address all 5 of the items mentioned above.
This paper is
designed to invite the student to think through how they would address these
issues using their knowledge and experience from this course to-date. They are
to include at least 4 to 6 articles from the class reading to-date.
Additionally, they are to get feedback on their strategy from an organizational
leader and include this feedback in the form of an Appendix at the end of their
paper. Structure and Style: Papers are to have a cover page, references page,
and between 3 – to - 3.5 pages
of written narrative (this page total does not include the cover page and
references page). Note: Students papers must only include original written
narrative without retyping any of the items 1-5 above. HBR Readings- Great
Leaders Who Make the Mix Work People- Leading in a Diverse World--How
Next-Generation Leaders Embrace Workplace Diversity Diversity as Strategy
Making Differences Matter- A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity
Expert Solution
Organizations must acknowledge
the pivotal significance of diversity and inclusion in any dynamic work
environment. Although this organization has a large and diversified human
resource, its diversity and inclusion strategies lack management, which is
worsened by the lack of discourse at the management level about this strategy.
Therefore, this organization will benefit from a leadership program that will
enhance a deeper understanding of this strategy, enable executive discussion
and support, mitigate employee turnover, and evaluate leader progress through
personal metrics.
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