Global Diversity Management

The program highlights the importance of understanding and applying workplace diversity towards sustainability. It is strongly committed to an applied approach in order to match the academic/theoretical analysis about insights, knowledge and practical strategies to sensitively manage the issues and challenges associated with working in a culturally diverse context.

Course leader

Scientific Coordinators:
Barbara Quacquarelli, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca
Adriano Solidoro, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca

Target group

Applications are welcome from undergraduates, graduates, PhD students and post-doc scholars as well as professionals.

Course aim

The benefits of this skills programme include improved competence in managing diversity; acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing and celebrating the uniqueness among people irrespective of, amongst others, race, age, class and gender; and enhanced communication skills and interpersonal relationships; bringing about new attitudes and processes to the benefit of the organisation as a whole.

Credits info

2 EC
A Certificate of Attendance will be issued at the end of the course.

Fee info

EUR 500: Students of VIU member universities
EUR 1000: Students of other universities

Scholarships

PhD candidates and post-docs from EU universities may be eligible for Erasmus+ mobility grant support. Candidates should consult the International Office in their own university for information about the calls for applications for funding.