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Leading a Diverse Workforce
 at 
MIT USA 
Overview

Understand and tackle the challenges and opportunities of workplace DEI

Duration

3 days

Total fee

3.41 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Leading a Diverse Workforce
 at 
MIT USA 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Learn through lectures, group discussions, simulations, breakout sessions and case studies
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Leading a Diverse Workforce
 at 
MIT USA 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For Executives and managers who are interested in an evidence-based approach to DEI in organizations
  • For those responsible for hiring and managing talent
  • For HR directors and managers
  • For those for whom DEI is core to their role
  • For Directors of organizational development and corporate strategy
  • For Vice presidents of operations
  • For Other interested line leaders
What are the course deliverables?
  • The gap between DEI theory and practice, and how to close that gap
  • How to identify problems in your organization and approach them analytically
  • What has and has not worked for the participants in the class, and why
  • The upside and downside of meritocracy
  • Why it's ok, and maybe encouraged, to be skeptical of popular approaches to diversity in the workforce
  • How to adapt evidence-based best practices to an organization to ensure that you are successful in achieving diversity and inclusion in the organization
  • How to measure and evaluate progress
More about this course
  • There are numerous reasons for companies to be focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion training, also known as DEI training, however there is no one-size-fits-all manual for leading and managing a diverse workforce
  • If handled poorly, an organization can experience the very opposite of the benefits it seeks
  • This critical new course is designed to help students understand and tackle the challenges and opportunities of workplace equity, diversity, and inclusion training
  • They will leave the course with a framework for learning how to grow and guide diversity in their organization as well as a set of challenging questions to ask themselves and their team
  • This course is highly engaging'be ready to roll up sleeves and have challenging and insightful conversations with faculty and peers
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Leading a Diverse Workforce
 at 
MIT USA 
Curriculum

DAY 1

Introduction and Framework for Course

Executive Education Team

The Business Case for Diversity

Markets and Organizations

DAY 2

Organizations as Sources of Problems and Solutions

Meritocracy and Rewards

Addressing Equity and Fairness

DAY 3

Organizational Interventions to Increase Diversity in Key Roles

Gender, Work, and Family as DEI Concerns

Reflection and Wrap Up

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Leading a Diverse Workforce
 at 
MIT USA 
Faculty details

Emilio J. Castilla
Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Roberto Fernandez
Roberto M. Fernandez is the William F. Pounds Professor in Management and a Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Leading a Diverse Workforce
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