Course Description:

This course provides an introduction to the content and process guiding the work of (internal and external) diversity practitioners.  Linking diversity to organizational change is the process of planning and implementing interventions to create interpersonal, group, intergroup, and/or organization-wide change.  This course presents the theoretical foundations of diversity as organizational change in the context of an applied behavioral science.  Participants will also be introduced to many types of interpersonal, intra-group, intergroup, and organizational interventions that are used to effect comprehensive and lasting changes.  Participants will learn about:

• Theoretical basis for linking diversity and organizational change
• Models for linking diversity and organizational change
• Types of diversity interventions
• Strategic thinking in diversity and organizational change
• Resistance: Planning and management