Dates and Content
February 19th to May 21st 2005: Beta Test Certification Program in a compressed timeframe -
Open to a maximum of 20 participants at $3,500, a discount of 55% from the regular price. Participants will provide ongoing thoughtful feedback on program format, content, readings, and experience to validate curriculum. CEU's are offered and calculated by California State University Long Beach, College of Business. Individual modules may be taken separately, priced individually (see below) at a lesser discount ($4,700 for all modules). Specific selected individual modules may have prerequisites.
Introduction, syllabus, books, etc (February 19, 2005, 8:30-4)
Complimentary.
Strongly recommended for all participants.
AGENDA:
Certification Syllabus and Format
Introduction to the following:
Change Agency / Champions
Definitions and Terms, including ethics, morality, optimizing diversity, interculturalism
Diversity Paradigms - An Evolving History
Your Diversity Vision for your Organization
Diversity Is and Diversity Is Not: myths and assumptions
Optimizing Diversity Methodology
Resources and Expectations Reading List
Module 1: Background to Diversity Praxis & Ethical Pluralism (March 4 & 5, 2005)
Individual Module $850
What is diversity, ethics, ethical leadership and organizational culture
The history of management approaches to diversity - from EEO / AA to optimizing diversity - in the US and Globally: Interculturalism, Multiculturalism and Diversity Management - similarities/differences
Acculturation Models - assimilation, pluralism, relativism, etc.
The business case for Diversity
Demographics
The socio-economic and political context (including 'post modernism, post industrialism, critical multiculturalism')
Module 2: Organizational Dynamics: intelligent complex adaptive systems theory & Diversity (March 19, 2005)
Individual Module $550
The five principles of organizational chaotics
Fractals, emergence and self-organization
The vitality-rigidity-chaos organizational continuum
Diversity of agents in a vital organization: innovation or groupthink?
Systems Thinking
Module 3: Organizational People: Human Diversity& Fractal Identities (April 1 & 2)
Individual Module $850
The diversity wheel and diversity categories
Identity theory and social psychology - a global approach
Fractal identities, fluctuation and social construction
The processes of discrimination, the anatomy of prejudice, social justice and
social marginalization - identity politics and identity militancy
Diagnosing and intervening in the difficult and emerging diversity issues; e.g. age, race, religion, sexuality
Module 4: Organizational Culture: Critical social theory, Interculturalism and Workplace Vitality (April 22 & 23)
Individual Module $850
Ethics, Pluralism + ethical pluralism
The Vitality based constitutional project for workplace culture
The grammar of conduct & inclusion, conflict, collaboration & relationships
Workplace Enchantment to disenchantment drivers
Safe space criteria for creativity, including anxiety containment
Knowledge management: from diversity through creativity to innovation - the 3Cs and 4Is
A comparison: domestic diversity and global multiculturalism / interculturalism
Module 5: Change and Change Agency: champions, leaders, managers, agents and targets (May 13 & 14)
Individual Module $1050
Ethical Diversity Leadership in a time of uncertainty - legitimacy and trust
The nature of organizational change and the change agent
Disrupt-Deconstruct-Reconstruct Methodology
Emotional and cultural competencies - the foundation for ethical leadership
The role of diversity councils, employee identity groups, vitality innovation teams and diversity champions: fragmentation or innovation?
The Constitutional Project for Organizational Vitality and Diversity
Module 6: Conclusion and Examination / Diversity and Intercultural Awareness Profile (May 21, 2005)
Individual Module $550
Completion of Modules 1 through 5 is a prerequisite to attending Module 6. This day of evaluation is followed up by a one time intervention observation with a GDI Professional.
There will be virtual internet based hours as preliminary material for some of the above modules.
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