2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

MGT 325 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Management


Description: Essential skills practiced by business managers to identify opportunities to leverage diversity to create a productive and engaging organizational culture. Focus is given to current challenges and best practices in creating, supporting, and cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.    

Prerequisites: Program Admission. ACC 131, BSA 131, CSA 110, ECN 232, and ECN 236.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Diversity in organizations - from diversity to inclusion
  2. Engaging diversity - ways of thinking about differences
  3. Building effective work relationships across differences
  4. Creating inclusion in organizations
  5. Leading diversity in organizations

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Articulate the business case and organizational reasons for diversity and inclusion. (1)
  2. Analyze how personal identity and experience shape how people interact and engage with each other within organizations. (2)
  3. Formulate the impact of stereotypes and unconscious bias on working relationships. (3)
  4. Develop critical thinking skills to advance the ability to create a more inclusive organizational culture. (4)
  5. Determine best practices and policies for creating a more inclusive work environment. (5)