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Modul 8a-d: Organizations and Management Trends I

Diversity and Inclusion Management

General Information

Department:
Department of Business and Economics, Professorship of Higher Education

Degree Program:
Bachelor Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Module:
8a-d: Organizations and Management Trends I

Lecturer:
Lecture: Prof. Liudvika Leišytė
Exercise: Sude Pekşen, M.A. & Nina Carolin Bieling, M.Sc.

Credits:
7.5 ECTS

Time and Place:
Lecture: Tuesdays, 2.15 – 3.45 p.m. (Start: 16 April 2024) | Seminar building I, SRG 1.024
Exercise: Thursdays, 10.15 – 11.45 a.m. (Start: 18 April 2024) | Seminar building I, SRG 1.001

Language:
English

studium oecologicum:
This course can be taken by all TU Dortmund University students as part of the studium oecologicum certificate program (subject area "Gesellschaft").

Content of the Course

This course focuses on diversity and inclusion management in private companies as well as public organizations internationally. Specifically, it will focus on the dynamics, challenges as well as opportunities organizations face in adopting good corporate social responsibility policies and practices to ensure diversity and inclusion. The lecture builds on academic and practitioner literature, draws on a variety of management and sociological theories. The exercise focuses on real practice examples of challenges implementing diversity management policies in different types of organizations in Germany and abroad.

Examinations

Written and graded exam covering the entire module (90 minutes).