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Building Future-Proof Organizations. This specialization provides a guide for understanding diversity and driving inclusion and belonging in an organization.
Instructors: Ariadne Ferro Bajuelo
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This course is open to any individual or group that is interested in promoting diversity, inclusion, and belonging in their organization.
Understand how demographic, cognitive, and experiential diversities can serve as tools for overcoming challenges in an organization.
Implement and promote inclusive practices that allow a diverse organization to thrive.
Create and shape the spaces, environments, and behaviors of an organization to ensure the belonging of all its members.
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This 4-course specialization begins with "Fundamentals of Diversity," taught by Professor Celia de Anca. This first course introduces the three key types of diversity: demographic, experiential, and cognitive. The course then dives more specifically into the demographic component of diversity and addresses the challenges of managing diversity in organizations.
The second course of the specialization, "Cognitive and Experiential Diversity" taught by Salvador Aragón, takes a novel approach to diversity, focusing on our experiential and cognitive diversities and how these types of diversities can be leveraged to build successful teams.
The third course, "Diversity and Belonging in Businesses and Organizations" taught by Jessica D. Tollette, centers on how to achieve a meaningful sense of belonging in organizations and covers topics such as workplace culture and well-being.
Finally, in the fourth course of the specialization, "Diversity with Inclusion in Organizations" co-taught by Itziar Vizcaino Toscano and Ariadne M. Ferro Bajuelo, learners will focus more specifically on inclusion efforts, touching on topics such as pseudo-inclusion, unconscious bias, microaggressions, and intersectionality.
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The courses in this specialization feature practice tasks as well as graded quizzes to assess learners' understanding of key concepts. The goal of these assessments is for learners to apply the insights and tools they have gained in the courses to their organizational context.
"The Fundamentals of Diversity" is the first course in IE University's specialization titled "The Journey to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging."
This course will provide learners with the basic tools to navigate diversity and diverse organizations. Throughout the course, learners will analyze how to promote diversity across demographic categories such as gender, ethnicity, race, disability, age, and physical appearance. The course will also empower learners to identify the challenges posed by diversity. Finally, learners will gain a working knowledge of how to manage diversity in organizations and teams. This course is designed for all: students and young professionals as well as older and senior professionals looking for a better understanding of what diversity is and the critical role it plays in an organization.
"Cognitive and Experiential Diversity" is the second course in the specialization titled "The Journey to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging."
This course takes a novel approach to understanding diversity by exploring the nature of cognitive and experiential diversity. Understanding these "invisible" forms of diversity is essential for an organization to thrive, and fostering this diversity among members of an organization will drive innovation and disruption. Join us on this course to expand and challenge your understanding of diversity.
This course on Diversity and Belonging in Businesses and Organizations will support individuals, teams, and organizations to better understand and implement policies and practices that promote the inclusion as well as the belonging of all employees. We aim to cover the following topics:
Policies - How to identify and understand the ways in which the structural dynamics of an organization can preclude a sense of belonging and how to use inclusive policies as a tool to foster belonging. Practices - How to design an organizational culture that promotes the well-being and belonging of all its constituents through kindness, empathy, openness, and compassion. People - How to leverage the creation of affinity groups and task forces to overcome structural biases, build community, and create a greater sense of belonging. The final module of the course provides complementary resources to bring course concepts together and support an organization's belonging efforts.
For any group to perform at its best, it’s important that its members feel valued.
This can only be achieved if the team, beginning with the team leader, fosters an environment of inclusion where each person has the opportunity to contribute and is valued for his or her distinctive skills and perspectives. We’ll be introducing you to established frameworks, including Kathryn Sorrells’ Intercultural Praxis Model, which will serve as the guide for this course. Through this model, we’ll learn how to raise awareness about our reactions to difference, optimize critical analysis, and develop responsible social action. In this course, we’ll also review some of the basic concepts that make up the process of inclusion. We’ll discuss theories surrounding inclusion in organizations, and we’ll provide you with strategies on how to react when a moment of exclusion occurs within your team. In addition to the foundational knowledge you'll gain from this course, you’ll also take away a practical toolkit for fostering an inclusive environment. This course can be taken independent of or along with its companion courses: Fundamentals of Diversity; Cognitive and Experiential Diversity; and Diversity and Belonging in Businesses and Organizations.
IE Business School is an internationally recognized business school where the leaders of tomorrow shape their ideas and learn to become global citizens. For over 40 years, IE Business School has promoted innovation and change in organizations, equipping managers with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth, and social well-being. Regularly featured among the top business schools in the world, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from approximately 90 countries in its undergraduate and master programs. IE uses innovative online, face-to-face, and blended learning formats, including the IE Communities Platform where knowledge and experiences are exchanged with over 50,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in more than 100 countries worldwide.
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1.5-2 hours a week, for 16 weeks (4 weeks per program). However, this is a self-paced program, so students may manage their time according to their own needs.
While no background knowledge is required, we recommend that participants have experience working in an organization.
It is highly recommended to complete the 4 courses in order.
No university credit is attributed to this course.
Participants will develop a more nuanced understanding of diversity and gain the skills to drive conversations around inclusion and belonging according to the needs of their organization.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.
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