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RICEx: Introduction to Diversity in the Workplace
Understand the imperatives for leading diversity in the workplace, with guidance from experts at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Distinguish between various elements of bias, and learn how you can reduce the negative impact of bias in your context.
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4 weeks at 3-4 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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RICEx
About RICEx: Introduction to Diversity in the Workplace
This course from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business introduces you to the value and challenges of championing diversity and inclusion.
With a foundation in effective recruitment and management strategies to attract and retain diverse talent, it explores the basics of diversity, why diversity matters at an organizational level and its moral, financial and realistic imperative.
Learners will create a diversity needs analysis for their organization and learn discrimination reduction tactics to overcome workplace bias—how, at an organizational level, one can reduce the negative impact of bias among employees, regardless of rank or competency.
What You Will Learn?
- The different types of diversity in the workplace. .
- The differences between stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination as different elements of bias. .
- Strategies for reducing bias in an organization. .
- Strategies for allies to reduce bias in the workplace. .
- Leadership interventions based on the diversity needs of an organization. .