Organizations can create a harmonious work environment by encouraging the acceptance of differences.
Organizations can create a harmonious work environment by encouraging the acceptance of differences. The workplace is becoming increasingly diverse and is welcoming more people with different experiences than in previous decades. This diversity and these differences offer many benefits, such as innovation, creativity, and proactive employees. On the other hand, this increase can also bring challenges, but by promoting differences, managers can create a culture of inclusiveness and tackle discrimination. This course aims to highlight the importance of understanding diversity in the workplace.
This Foundational Themes of Organizational Behavior course will introduce you to the types of diversity that exist within organizations. You’ll also explore how management can use diversity to their advantage. We’ll cover different ways to identify and address sensitive topics in your organization so you can encourage positive behavior. You’ll also learn ways to take high-stress situations and handle them in a healthy and productive way.
Learning Objectives
- Categorize diversity in the workplace
- Compare the differences in the nature vs. nurture debate
- Distinguish the effects globalization has on business
- Evaluate emotion regulation strategies
- Criticize organizational change and its effects
Skills you’ll gain
Application Foundation ClassesDiversity TrainingOrganizational BehaviorOrganizational LearningOrganizational TheoriesWorkplace DiversityWhat You'll Learn
- Categorize the types of diversity that exist within the workplace
- Compare the differences in the nature vs. nurture debate
- Distinguish the effects globalization has on business
- Evaluate emotion regulation strategies for handling high-stress situations
- Criticize organizational change and its effects
- Identify and address sensitive topics to encourage positive behavior
Key Takeaways
- A diverse workplace can offer benefits such as innovation, creativity, and proactive employees.
- By promoting differences, managers can create a culture of inclusiveness and tackle discrimination.
- Management can use diversity within an organization to their advantage.
- Identifying and addressing sensitive topics helps encourage positive behavior in an organization.
- High-stress situations can be handled in a healthy and productive way through emotion regulation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will this course teach me about diversity?
It introduces the types of diversity that exist within organizations and explores how management can use diversity to their advantage, including ways to identify and address sensitive topics and encourage positive behavior.
Who is this course for?
It is aimed at those who want to understand the importance of diversity in the workplace, including managers seeking to create a culture of inclusiveness and tackle discrimination.
What topics are covered in the lessons?
The course covers Organizational Change, Diversity and Individuals, Nature vs. Nurture, and Emotion Regulation, followed by a Test Your Knowledge assessment.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course builds skills in workplace diversity, diversity training, organizational behavior, organizational learning, and organizational theories.
Does the course address handling stress?
Yes, it teaches ways to take high-stress situations and handle them in a healthy and productive way through emotion regulation strategies.
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Welcome to foundational themes of organizational behavior. These lessons will teach you the basic ideas that fuel organizational behavior, such as potential changes that may occur and how to best approach them. You'll be given tips on how to approach sensitive topics and handle diversity in the workplace. You'll then learn the ways to take high-emotion situations and deal with them in a healthy way. The behavior of organizations is influenced by change and organizations are constantly changing. The process by which an organization moves from one issue to another is called organizational change. Various types of organizational change exist. The company may rearrange its structure, strategies, policies, procedures, technologies, or cultures. There may have been years of planning for the change or perhaps a sudden shift in the environment forced to change. Whether the change is radical or gradual, it will affect how the organization operates and how people work. All changes require letting go of old approaches and adapting to new ones, even if it's minor. Changes in the environment often lead to organizational changes. How does this affect companies? As an example, the type of benefits that employees prefer may change as their workforce ages. As employees stay in the workforce beyond the typical retirement age, flexible work arrangements may become more popular. The rapidly aging workforce increases the possibility that employees who dislike their current job assignment will retire, resulting in an immediate loss of valuable knowledge and expertise. Organizations will have to devise retention strategies and prepare retirement plans to retain these employees and effectively train new ones. It's also helpful to overcome age-related stereotypes that prevent them from being included. Globalization is another example of change within an organization. As an opportunity and a threat, globalization depends on the ability of an organization to adapt. In some countries, producing goods and providing services is cheaper than in others. Companies are taking advantage of this by setting up manufacturing facilities overseas. Marketing can affect organizations across the board. The business landscape may change along with companies as communications and technology enable a better blending of cultures. The management of global workforces is becoming increasingly important, considering these changes. In the case of outsourcing, companies are often forced to operate in an institutional environment that's entirely different from their own. The stress that employees face when jobs are moved overseas, retaining the workforce, and figuring out how to compete in a global economy are changes that companies are seeking to adjust to. Knowing how organizational change affects behavior within an organization can aid managers in making good decisions, especially when an organization goes global.
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