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BUILDING & MANAGING A DIVERSE WKPLC (BUS 0456)

Term: 2006-2007 Summer

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Description

This course intends to provide learners with a forum for identifying, assessing, and analyzing the demographics that influence the workplace. Learners, using data from the US Census Bureau, international agencies, and their own workplaces, discuss and write about the multiple factors facing management, labor, and the community at large relative to employment.

With 6.3 billion people worldwide, and the United States having a little less than 5 percent of that total population, it's critical for employers and employees to know demographics in order to plan and strategize with relevancy and reduced-risk. This course takes a databased perspective toward the countless challenges and opportunities of a diverse workplace.

Some of the issues learners discuss are the typical diversity demographics of age, gender, and race. Under the category of age, for example, learners identify and discuss the composition of a first-time workplace phenomenon, i.e., four distinct generations (Vetera