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CERTIFICATION
For detailed information, click on the title.The GDI Certification as an Ethical Diversity Practitioner (CEDP)
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Program Elements:
- Background: What is diversity, ethics, organizational culture, and the global framework for diversity?
- Organizational Dynamics: Intelligent complex adaptive systems theory - learning the latest organizational development tools through the new sciences. Building a Diversity Strategy, aligning your diversity strategy with your business strategy and with your people processes.
- Organizational People: Human diversity and fractal identities
- Organizational Culture: Workplace social theory and workplace Vitality
- Change and Change Agency: Champions, leaders, managers, agents and targets - aligning leadership with your role to execute and implement your organization's diversity strategy.
- Conclusion and Examination: Diversity and the Intercultural Awareness Profile
Certification in the Use of the Workplace Vitality & Diversity Assessment Tool
Certification in the administration, interpretation and integration of GDI's primary assessment methodology, as well as diagnosing the workplace drivers of enchantment and disenchantment.
SERVICES
Research
Recent topical examples include the Oklahoma school district policy banning headwear affecting Muslim girls as well as other displays of identity; employee religious proselytizing and witnessing towards colleagues or customers; workplace accomodation of religious practices; the rising non-standard identity militancies due to demographic changes and the globalization of the workforce; generational conflict in the workplace; the workplace vitality and diversity implications of offshore outsourcing; gay and lesbian marriage and civil rights issues; language and regional identities; etc.
Broad based research funded by foundations, public agencies, or other institutional entities will continue to be published in the quarterly journal Diversity Praxis.
Training and Education
Diversity Beyond The Numbers - Presentations and Workshops
A series of presentations and workshops that cover the contents, methods, and practices, including case studies, from the book Diversity Beyond The Numbers: Business Vitality, Ethics & Identity in the 21st Century published by GDI Press in 2003. These workshops address the questions:
Why diversity beyond the numbers in the 21st Century?
What is diversity in the 21st century?, and
How can we optimize diversity in the 21st century - what methods, tools and theory are used to build business workplace vitality by optimizing diversity?
Organizational Vitality - Workplace/Workforce Enchantment & Disenchantment
Focuses on identifying drivers of constructive and destructive workplace elements and how to capitalize on the former and minimize the latter. For example, it builds an understanding with tools/techniques to help in workplace recruitment, retention and development issues confronting the growing demographic challenges including baby-boomers leaving the workplace, skills and talent shortages, retention and flexibility initiatives.