PSYC175 CM - Seminar on Diverse Teams at Work

Diverse teams are becoming a commonplace in current organizations. A primary goal of the course is to provide students with the background knowledge needed to understand, respect, and manage differences between individuals, occurring at the group-level in the workplace. How do employees’ differences influence their interactions? Are these differences detrimental, beneficial, or both? What do we know about leveraging team diversity to attain positive outcomes? These questions will be addressed in this course. More specifically, students will learn about (1) the state-of-the-science from both the teams and diversity literature, (2) the many emergent states and processes that diverse teams go through in organizations, and (3) the tools and interventions to maximize the benefit of diverse teams in the workplace.

Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course.

Offered: Every year

Credit: 1

Course Number: PSYC175 CM