Organisations of every kind need to ensure they are building inclusive work cultures while reducing reputational risk. This insightful course will take you through the benefits and processes of bringing true diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion into the workplace. We take you beyond the legalese and show you ways to drive real change in leadership behaviour, recruitment practice, and people management. Support your colleagues in becoming better allies and help your business to close the diversity gap!
COURSE LENGTH:
COURSE STRUCTURE:
- DEBI: Introduction & Overview
- Understanding Equality
- Human Rights in Ireland
- Neurodiversity
- Successful People Management: Approaches to Diversity
- Building an Inclusive Workplace
- Inclusion & Belonging Strategies (Part 1)
- Inclusion & Belonging Strategies (Part 2)
- Dignity at Work
- Diversity & Leadership
- Managing the Changes
- Course Summary & Assignment Overview
STUDY OPTIONS:
Part Time
1 x 3 hour live online evening class per week over 12 weeks
SUMMARY:
Issues such as equality and diversity are universal, and organisations cannot ignore their responsibilities in this area. This timely course will take you through all the relevant laws, obligations, and codes of conduct so that you can look at diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion (DEBI) in the context of your workplace and address any shortfalls.
With a focus on practical ways to model and foster a culture of conscious inclusivity, this course will help you drive intentional, organisation-wide change. You will learn how to create a programme for creating an inclusive workplace and be able to develop asuccessful people management approach to neurodiversity in the workplace.
Learn about specific hurdles to building safe, inclusive workplaces, such as unconscious bias. Discover strategies for handling complaints of bullying or harassment, as well as a host of other practical ways to bring a diverse and inclusive focus across all your organisation’s activities.
Learners taking part in this course will now have access to the EBSCO Online Library, free of charge, for the full duration of the course. Here you can browse thousands of relevant journal articles and other reliable academic and commercial texts like the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Business week and Forbes Magazine, to supplement your learning and assignments.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
Addressing issues of diversity and inclusion in the workplace is no longer a luxury for organisations but a hard reality. For this reason, professionals with a real understanding of and expertise in this area are highly sought-after. With the skills and knowledge obtained on this course, you may be able to add DEBI responsibilities to your role, seek promotion to a role that includes such responsibilities, or push for the creation of a new DEBI position in your organisation.
ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION
This course is assessed through a weekly student learning log and a report of around 3,000 words, submitted at the end of the course. Your learning log should demonstrate how you used the concepts presented each week to start building your understanding of diversity and inclusion. Your final report will bring together all the concepts and insights to present key points of the studied subjects and reflect on the challenges that come with a diverse workforce and how to deal with them. Students will be asked to reflect on their own workplace and evaluate it from the DEBI perspective.
Your UCD Professional Academy Diploma will be issued electronically on a secure platform, with a link that you can share with employers and others wishing to verify your credentials. You’ll also be able to add the certification to your LinkedIn profile to demonstrate your achievement to your network as well as recruiters and potential employers searching for individuals with your skills and experience.
This course is not on the National Framework of Qualifications.
LEARNER PROFILE:
The themes explored will be of interest to professionals at every level and working in any sector. Anyone who is responsible for recruiting, leading teams, managing employees, minimising risk, and supporting organisational performance will benefit from this course. It would be of particular interest to professionals working in human resources; a diploma or other qualification in human resources would be an advantage but is not essential.
