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Dear colleagues,

I am helping to design a course on managing diversity within
organizations, and am looking for experiential exercises to use during
the course. Currently, I have divided the course into the following
topics:

1. What is diversity?
2. Costs and Benefits of Diversity
3. Privilege and Power
4. Recruiting for Diversity
5. Retaining a Diverse Workforce
6. Marketing Diversity - Inside and outside of the organization
7. Conflict Resolution
8. Cross National Diversity

If you have any recommendations for experiential exercises that could be
used that involve these topics, I would greatly appreciate it. Cases or
videos are fine too.

Also, if there are any other topics that I should consider adding to the
course, please let me know as well.

I will summarize results for the listserv. Thank you in advance!

Rosalind Chow
Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Starpower is a great simulation for the Privilege and Power section of the
course. It's powerful.

Susan Herman, Professor School of Management
Director, Northern Leadership Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 756080
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6080
907-474-1939 (o)
907-474-5219 (f)
www.uaf.edu/nlc


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Subject: Experiential Exercises for a course on Managing Diversity

Dear colleagues,

I am helping to design a course on managing diversity within
organizations, and am looking for experiential exercises to use during
the course. Currently, I have divided the course into the following
topics:

1. What is diversity?
2. Costs and Benefits of Diversity
3. Privilege and Power
4. Recruiting for Diversity
5. Retaining a Diverse Workforce
6. Marketing Diversity - Inside and outside of the organization
7. Conflict Resolution
8. Cross National Diversity

If you have any recommendations for experiential exercises that could be
used that involve these topics, I would greatly appreciate it. Cases or
videos are fine too.

Also, if there are any other topics that I should consider adding to the
course, please let me know as well.

I will summarize results for the listserv. Thank you in advance!

Rosalind Chow
Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Rosalind

The following gives you guest access to my online organizational behavior courses. Diversity is a major part of those course although not exclusive. You will find eExercises for several of your topics. You will also find film scenes. Let me know whether any of it is useful to you.

http://vista.unm.edu
Login: guest_champoux
Password: review2

Joseph E Champoux, PhD
Regents' Professor of Management

See available film-based teaching materials from Thomson South-Western: http://champoux.swlearning.com

View research papers on teaching with film:
http://mgtclass.mgt.unm.edu/Champoux/FilmResearch/

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-----Original Message-----
From: champoux@unm.edu on behalf of Chow, Rosalind Mingkay
Sent: Fri 10/19/2007 19:04
To: Joseph Champoux
Subject: Experiential Exercises for a course on Managing Diversity

Dear colleagues,

I am helping to design a course on managing diversity within
organizations, and am looking for experiential exercises to use during
the course. Currently, I have divided the course into the following
topics:

1. What is diversity?
2. Costs and Benefits of Diversity
3. Privilege and Power
4. Recruiting for Diversity
5. Retaining a Diverse Workforce
6. Marketing Diversity - Inside and outside of the organization
7. Conflict Resolution
8. Cross National Diversity

If you have any recommendations for experiential exercises that could be
used that involve these topics, I would greatly appreciate it. Cases or
videos are fine too.

Also, if there are any other topics that I should consider adding to the
course, please let me know as well.

I will summarize results for the listserv. Thank you in advance!

Rosalind Chow
Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Rosadlind,

One thing I enjoy the most out of teaching courses such as Org. Behavior, Cross-Cultural Management, International Management, and some workshops on cultural diversity is that the stuff we cover in them is about us! You probably have a rich source of diversity exercises in your own classroom, in popular publications (New York Times, Business Week, etc.) which report and cover current events in management and organization, and other sources. I have, for instance, video clips from the newsmagazine 60 Minutes (CBS), where issues such as the Texas 10% Rule for College Admission, France's General Treatment of its Muslim Population, etc. If you want to get some ideas on how to convert all of these sources (your own students and the events in real life), check Storti's Cross-Cultural Dialogues, Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, Maine, 1990 (0r 1991). The essence of what I try to do is to get my students to understand that they are an active part of that diversity, to understand they affect and are affected by others around them.

Hope this helps a little bit,

Ivan



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Department of Management
McCoy College of Business Administration
Texas State University - San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 78666
Phone (512) 245-1842
Fax (512) 245-2850
rb39@txstate.edu
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The trouble with other cultures is that the people don't behave the way they're supposed to, that is, like us. The solution to this difficulty is not to expect them to." Craig Storti, The Art of Crossing Cultures (1990).
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Las naciones marchan al termino de su grandeza con el mismo paso que camina su educacion.
Nations march toward their greatness at the same pace as their educational systems evolve. Simon Bolivar
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =


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Sent: Sat 10/20/2007 11:35 AM
To: OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
Subject: Re: Experiential Exercises for a course on Managing Diversity


Hello Rosalind,

There's quite a selection of diversity exercises described in articles in the Journal of Management Education as recent as August 2007.

Cheers,
Celeste

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Département d'organisation et ressources humaines
École des sciences de la gestion
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 6192, Succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal QC Canada H3C 4R2

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"Chow, Rosalind Mingkay" <Chow_Rosalind@GSB.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I am helping to design a course on managing diversity within
organizations, and am looking for experiential exercises to use during
the course. Currently, I have divided the course into the following
topics:

1. What is diversity?
2. Costs and Benefits of Diversity
3. Privilege and Power
4. Recruiting for Diversity
5. Retaining a Diverse Workforce
6. Marketing Diversity - Inside and outside of the organization
7. Conflict Resolution
8. Cross National Diversity

If you have any recommendations for experiential exercises that could be
used that involve these topics, I would greatly appreciate it. Cases or
videos are fine too.

Also, if there are any other topics that I should consider adding to the
course, please let me know as well.

I will summarize results for the listserv. Thank you in advance!

Rosalind Chow
Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Stanford Graduate School of Business



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Another thing I do is to have students watch the films "What the Bleep do We
Know" and "Mindwalk." Both help them to open their minds which is one of the
keys for diversity.

Drumm McNaughton, Ph.D. CMC

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Rosadlind,

One thing I enjoy the most out of teaching courses such as Org. Behavior,
Cross-Cultural Management, International Management, and some workshops on
cultural diversity is that the stuff we cover in them is about us! You
probably have a rich source of diversity exercises in your own classroom, in
popular publications (New York Times, Business Week, etc.) which report and
cover current events in management and organization, and other sources. I
have, for instance, video clips from the newsmagazine 60 Minutes (CBS),
where issues such as the Texas 10% Rule for College Admission, France's
General Treatment of its Muslim Population, etc. If you want to get some
ideas on how to convert all of these sources (your own students and the
events in real life), check Storti's Cross-Cultural Dialogues,
Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, Maine, 1990 (0r 1991). The essence of what I
try to do is to get my students to understand that they are an active part
of that diversity, to understand they affect and are affected by others
around them.

Hope this helps a little bit,

Ivan



D
<https://synergy.txstate.edu/exchange/rb39/Inbox/Teaching/Ecuador%202007/RE:
%20Gracias%20e%20informacion-6.EML/1_multipart/1_multipart/image001.jpg?Secu
rity=2> r. R. Ivan Blanco
Department of Management
McCoy College of Business Administration
Texas State University - San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 78666
Phone (512) 245-1842
Fax (512) 245-2850
rb39@txstate.edu
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The trouble with other cultures is that the people don't behave the way
they're supposed to, that is, like us. The solution to this difficulty is
not to expect them to." Craig Storti, The Art of Crossing Cultures (1990).
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Las naciones marchan al termino de su grandeza con el mismo paso que camina
su educacion.
Nations march toward their greatness at the same pace as their educational
systems evolve. Simon Bolivar
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =


________________________________

From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv on behalf of Céleste
Brotheridge
Sent: Sat 10/20/2007 11:35 AM
To: OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
Subject: Re: Experiential Exercises for a course on Managing Diversity


Hello Rosalind,

There's quite a selection of diversity exercises described in articles in
the Journal of Management Education as recent as August 2007.

Cheers,
Celeste

<http://ca.f505.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=grimard-brotheridge.celeste@uqa
m.ca>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Céleste Brotheridge, Professeure
Département d'organisation et ressources humaines
École des sciences de la gestion
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 6192, Succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal QC Canada H3C 4R2

<http://ca.f505.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=grimard-brotheridge.celeste@uqa
m.ca>


"Chow, Rosalind Mingkay" <Chow_Rosalind@GSB.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I am helping to design a course on managing diversity within
organizations, and am looking for experiential exercises to use
during
the course. Currently, I have divided the course into the following
topics:

1. What is diversity?
2. Costs and Benefits of Diversity
3. Privilege and Power
4. Recruiting for Diversity
5. Retaining a Diverse Workforce
6. Marketing Diversity - Inside and outside of the organization
7. Conflict Resolution
8. Cross National Diversity

If you have any recommendations for experiential exercises that
could be
used that involve these topics, I would greatly appreciate it. Cases
or
videos are fine too.

Also, if there are any other topics that I should consider adding to
the
course, please let me know as well.

I will summarize results for the listserv. Thank you in advance!

Rosalind Chow
Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Stanford Graduate School of Business



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> 7. Conflict Resolution

The conflict resolution exercise Alpha Beta is a cross cultural group
negotation. One set of role instructions is for a low context,
indivudalistic set of behaviors, the other is for collectivist, high
context behaviors. The two groups get really frustrated with each other
and presume that the other side is rude, aggressive, doesn't get down
to business, wastes time, etc. depending on which role they are
playing. I think (don't remember for sure), that you can buy it from
the Northwestern Conflict Resolution Center.

Carolyn
U of ID

It is also in my book, Negotiation: Readings, Exercises and Cases (McGraw
Hill, 2006).

Roy


On 10/21/07 11:49 AM, "Carolyn Birmingham" <carolyn@UIDAHO.EDU> wrote:

>> 7. Conflict Resolution
>
> The conflict resolution exercise Alpha Beta is a cross cultural group
> negotation. One set of role instructions is for a low context,
> indivudalistic set of behaviors, the other is for collectivist, high
> context behaviors. The two groups get really frustrated with each other
> and presume that the other side is rude, aggressive, doesn't get down
> to business, wastes time, etc. depending on which role they are
> playing. I think (don't remember for sure), that you can buy it from
> the Northwestern Conflict Resolution Center.
>
> Carolyn
> U of ID

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