MGMT304-08S2 (C) Semester Two 2008

Diversity in Organisations

14 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2008
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2008
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2008
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2008

Description

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the increasing importance of diversity in organisations. We study a range of theories and focus on how to apply those theories to real-world situations.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the increasing importance of diversity in organisations. Throughout the course, we reconceptualise the meaning of diversity by moving away from a set of given demographic traits, and study how organisations actively create diversity. We use a variety of multi-disciplinary literature to study how diversity is experienced and understood within organisations.

Part 1 of the course is being facilitated by our visiting scholar, Professor Yehuda Baruch from the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. The aim of this part of the course is to provide students with an advanced understanding of diversity in careers, through an understanding of the labour markets and the management of career diversity in the postmodern world of work.

Part 2 of the course is being facilitated by Dr Sarah Wright and will focus on contemporary issues related to diversity in organisations.

The course starts at the micro level of the individual, through the organisation, and up to the macro levels of national and global society. Particular attention will be paid to transformations of work environments and to technologies likely to affect graduates in their impending careers.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Sarah Wright

Guest Lecturer

Professor Yehuda Baruch

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Careers Assignment 22 Aug 2008 50% Careers Assignment
Research Digest 17 Oct 2008 50% Research Digest

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Baruch, Yehuda; Managing careers : theory and practice ; FT Prentice Hall, 2004 (Part 2: Course handouts of selected chapters and articles plus self-selected reading by students).

Course Reader of selected chapters and articles.

Notes

Grading:
The marks for assessments may be scaled before a final grade is determined. You should not regard 50% as a pass mark.

Departmental Academic Policies
If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator. The Department assumes that you have read this document. You should also read the “Information related to courses and assessment” on page 364 of the Enrolment Handbook 2008 (also in UC Calendar under “General Course and Examination Regulations”).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $502.00

International fee $2,089.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

All MGMT304 Occurrences

  • MGMT304-08S1 (C) Semester One 2008 - Not Offered
  • MGMT304-08S2 (C) Semester Two 2008