Please join us at our Saturday morning PDW at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename></st1:place> conference in August! If you're interested, please contact one of us for the approval code to register and we'll send you the prep work for our conversations. Look forward to seeing you in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:city>.
Ruth Bernstein - ruthbernst@aol.com,
Diana Bilimoria - diana.bilimoria@case.edu, and
Marcy Crary - lcrary@bentley.edu
Learning to Work Across Identities and Build Cultures of Inclusion:
How Do These Happen in Organizational Settings?
Saturday, August 4, 2012, 9:00 – 11:30am
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Boston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Plaza</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Clarendon Room
Organizers:
Ruth Bernstein, Diana Bilimoria and Marcy Crary
Facilitators of Round Table Discussions:
Joy Beatty, Stacy Blake-Beard, Donna Blancero, Gwen Combs, David Kravitz, Doug Johnson and Sue Vinnicombe
In this Professional Development Workshop we are interested in collectively exploring our current thinking and best practices around the questions:
1) Individual: How do people build their capacities to work effectively across identity group differences when operating out of their dominant group identities?
2) Groups: What core group practices best support the development of sustained, supportive, productive work interactions among diverse members? What helps group members become more competent and "comfortable" in working with their own and others' identity differences?
3) Organizations: What organizational practices facilitate the development of inclusive cultures that support sustained, supportive and productive work interactions among diverse members?
In their 2001 ASQ article, "Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes," Ely & Thomas compared and contrasted three different perspectives on workforce diversity (discrimination-and-fairness, access-and-legitimacy, and integration-and-learning) and proposed that it was the integration-and-learning perspective that was more likely to be associated with a group's capability to achieve sustained benefits from its diversity. Continuing this inquiry into what helps us reap the benefits of diversity in our workplaces we would like to use this PDW to share some current research that explores these issues. Additionally we will invite participants to bring their own current examples of relevant research and practices that contribute to an exploration of the above questions. We hope that all will leave the workshop with renewed interest in continuing the quest to understand how "integration-and-learning" perspectives and practices are learned and enacted in organizational settings.
If you're interested, please contact one of the organizers for the approval code needed to register and we'll send you the prep work for our conversations.