Gender and Diversity Management: Towards Inclusive Organizations provides an introductory immersion to the field of gender and diversity management through academic literature and practice. The seminar responds to recent demographic changes and anticipates future cultural shifts that demand managers who are culturally and gender and diversity sensitive, internationally focused, and can deal with complexity. Through literature studies, lectures, company presentations, and group assignments along with a real gender and diversity business case project students will learn about how, diversity, with its multiple dimensions such as gender, race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, and religion/beliefs, is a process and resource to be leveraged to develop a competitive organization or business.

The objectives of the course are: • To raise students’ individual awareness about gender and diversity and their own cultural values and biases that may contribute to their behaviour and interactions in organizations. • To develop greater understanding about social and organizational mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. • To enhance readiness, awareness, and skills to take a leadership role, as change agents, in enhancing respectful behaviour and inclusivity and managing gender and diversity. • To improve skills in organizational analysis, problem solving, and communicating ideas to improve gender and diversity management practices in a real organizational setting. • To learn to work together as a team.

Due to the special didactic requirements of teaching gender and diversity management, team-teaching will be used. CEMS Faculty group members will be present beyond their specialized sessions to ensure high standards of supervision, review, and evaluation of students’ knowledge and skills. The seminar will combine lectures, group work, presentations and group discussions.

The evaluation will consist of several components and will be graded according to the Austrian 5 scale system. Individual level (50%): - Seminar paper summarizing and responding to literature prior to the blocked seminar - Revision of seminar paper Group Level (50%): - Sub-group business case report - Case presentation of combined sub-group´s work on the case

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Author: Danowitz, M. A., Hanappi-Egger, E. & Mensi-Klarbach, H. (Eds.) Title: Gender and Diversity in Organizations: Developing Core Leadership and Management Competencies Publisher: (prepublication version) Year: 2011 Content relevant for class examination: Yes Recommendation: Essential reading for all students Type: Book

edeltraud.hanappi-egger@wu.ac.at mdanowitz@wu.ac.at

Students are expected to actively engage in class dialogue and discussions. All students are required to submit a seminar paper and a revised version (prepared on the last day of the course), work on group assignments during the seminar, and prepare a final presentation. Important! Before the blocked seminar begins in Vienna students are expected to read assigned course literature and prepare a seminar paper (a summary, analysis, and response to readings) and send it by e-mail to the course organizers by September 15.