GRHO0013-3 : Managing diversity

Study Programmes 2015-2016

GRHO0013-3

Managing diversity

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Bachelor in economics and business management		4
Bachelor in economics and business management		4
Bachelor in business engineering		4
Bachelor in business engineering		4
Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)		3
Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

Annie Cornet

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course aims at giving to the students the bases to understand and control a policy of human resource management which takes into account the stakes related to the increasing diversity of the personnel, of the labour, customer and user.

management of diversity: what?
characteristics to be taken into account: gender, national origin, culture, disabilities, age, homosexuality, physical appearance
management of diversity, action plan to the equality, positive actions and positive discriminations
management of diversity: why?
diagnosis of the representativeness and discriminations
making of action plan and indicators necessary to the follow-up
identification of practices linked with the HRM
success factors
limits

Learning outcomes of the course :

to give an outline of the principal currents of research and practices of diversity management
to understand the stakes and difficulties of diversity management;
to confront the theoretical contributions with the reality of practises.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

nothing

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

face to face case studies guest speakers in some courses the students must attend to the course with guest speakers

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

face to face / guest speaker

Recommended or required readings :

All documents will be post on lola.hec.ulg.ac.be

the students need to subscribe for the course to have access to all documents and informations about the course
reference book
CORNET A., WARLAND P. (2008), GRH et gestion de la diversité, Paris, Dunod, coll. Topo. E-book

Assessment methods and criteria :

90%work group - interviews and links with theorical and managerial concepts / web site on diversity management group will be made in the 1st course - information about the work group on website 10% for the attendance in the course

Work placement(s) :

Organizational remarks :

Contacts :

CORNET Annie, Professeure, Hec-Ecole de gestion de l'Ulg - UER Management, service GRH et management des organisations, Responsable Unité de recherche EgiD (Etudes sur le genre et la diversité en gestion) annie.cornet@ulg.ac.be bureau 2.98 / B31 /sart tilman

Items online :

All the documents are on http://lola.hec.ulg.ac.be/
ppt et articles