ORGL 545 - Leading Diverse Teams

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s):
A study of the challenges and opportunities of leading diverse teams. Through a process of inquiry, students will recognize the challenges they face in leading teams whose members are diverse with respect to gender, race, ethnicity, culture and other factors. They will develop strategies for effectively leading diverse teams, based on an awareness of differences among members. They will discover the potential advantages of teams whose members have a wide variety of perspectives, and they will develop ways of building high-performance teams through the creative tension that is generated by these perspectives.