Sessions
Concurrent Session
Assessing and Developing Passion for Global Diversity in Your Organization
Grand Ballroom E (5th Floor)
Tuesday 10/14/2014 03:15 PM - 04:30 PM
1.25 HR Credit
| Competencies: Leadership & Navigation, HR Expertise, Global & Cultural Effectiveness
| Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
Review research findings defining passion for diversity, and gain best practices for assessing and developing diversity in your organization.
Given the increasingly diverse workforce and globalization of business today, managers must have a strong passion for diversity to succeed in engaging diverse employees, business partners across cultures, and globally dispersed customers. In fact, passion for diversity was named as one of the 9 essential dimensions of global leadership in an ongoing Global Mindset study that includes more than 22,000 leaders around the world. Learn how you can play a pivotal role in developing passion for diversity in your organization in ways that make an effective impact on both dispositions and behaviors, discuss research findings that define passion for diversity, and provide practical suggestions to assess and develop it in your organization.
Presenter:
Mansour Javidan, director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute, Thunderbird School of Global Management