Course Description:
When planning for diversity, organizations often wish to conduct a needs assessment to uncover the issues that should be addressed. However, many needs assessments fail to meet the needs of organizations because they are poorly designed. In addition, they fail to use the best methods of assessment. Among the topics:
- Developing a systematic process to guide diversity related decisions
- Developing a process for justification for diversity decisions before they are made
- Developing effective internal and external organizational scans
- Identifying questions and data sources
- Evaluating potential data collection methods
- Data collection implementation
- Presenting data analysis findings
- Presenting data analysis recommendations
- Legal considerations
- Developing a replicable model that can be applied by novices or experts
- Providing a systemic perspective for decision makers
