Diversity Management in Practice

Co-taught in summer term 2019 and summer term 2020 at WU Wien. Course language was english.

Content

Diversity management: introduction, concepts and theories

Selected diversity dimensions and their role in organizations: disability, ethnicity, age and sexual orientation.

Learning outcomes

The students are able to explain the main concepts of diversity management and the main reasons for inclusiveness with respect to social categories.

At the end of the course the students know examples of diversity programs related to disability, ethnicity, age and sexual orientation.

To gain greater self-awareness of your own cultural and personal values, and diversity biases that may contribute to our behavior and interactions in organizations.