Fundamentals of diversity management

The basics of diversity management

In this first self-study phase, you can acquire basic knowledge of diversity. You will receive an introduction to the topic and learn about the key drivers of diversity in business and society. You will get an overview of all the important definitions and their concrete meaning and learn about the various dimensions of diversity.

This self-learning phase uses interactive learning materials to teach the following key topics:

• Diversity - trend or necessity?
• The drivers of diversity management
• Definitions of diversity
• The dimensions of diversity

Objectives of diversity management

In this second self-study phase, you will receive an overview of the objectives of strategic diversity management. You will learn why diversity and inclusion in organizations does not work all by itself, but should be backed up by management. You will learn about the five hard facts that can be used to justify the need for strategic diversity management. And you will find out what the individual components of diversity management are and how to strategically build it up in the organization step by step.

This self-learning phase uses interactive learning materials to teach the following key topics:

• How can diversity be managed sensibly?
• 5 hard facts for diversity management
• Components of diversity management

Successfully implementing diversity management in the organization

The second webinar will focus on the following topics:

• Review of the first self-learning phase: What questions remain unanswered? What has stuck?
• Discussion of the reflection questions:
  • Practical examples of equality and equity
  • Opening up new customer markets through diversity management
• Summary of the 5 hard facts that speak in favor of diversity management
• Introducing strategic diversity management: How can it succeed?
• Diversity management goals in your own organization: What fits as a goal? What does not?
• Nonsensical and dangerous diversity measures (e.g. #pinkwashing) in organizations

Profitability of diversity management

In this final self-study phase, you will learn how to measure successful diversity management. You will learn about the difficulties and limitations involved and the mistakes you should avoid when introducing and measuring success. You will receive a comprehensive overview of the various methods you can use to measure diversity measures. You will also look at your role as a diversity manager and where diversity management should best be placed in the organization in order for it to be successful.

This self-learning phase uses interactive learning materials to teach the following key topics:

• Profitability of diversity management
• Difficulties, limitations and mistakes when introducing performance and quality measurement
• How can you measure successful diversity management?
• Expectations of a diversity manager

Meaningful metrics for the success of diversity management

In the last webinar of this training course, you can expect the following main topics:

• Review of the further self-learning phases: What questions remain unanswered? What has stuck?
• Discussion: Can diversity management be a business case and thus measurable in terms of success?
• Measuring the success of diversity measures: Which metrics are important? Which are not?
• Discussion: Avoiding mistakes when introducing diversity management with regard to economic efficiency