Managing Equity, Diversity and Disability - MGMT5920

   
   
 
Course Outline: MGMT5920 Course Outline
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


This subject presents a multi-disciplinary overview of the issues and problems raised by the increasing diversity of the workforce and it evaluates organizational challenges and opportunities created by the need to attract, develop, and retain employees and managers from a diverse range of backgrounds and/or abilities. It introduces students to concepts and theoretical constructs that enhance understanding of difference and diversity, such as gender, identity, ethnicity and disability. It examines strategies required to more effectively deal with prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, inter-group conflict, cultural clash, structural integration and organizational change. In this way the course relates the management of equity and diversity to changes in work organization, human resource management and industrial relations, as these involve issues of power and politics, legislative intervention and regulation, labour market segmentation, organisational power and politics, Equal Employment Opportunities, the merit principle, and organisational culture.