Lessons in Diversity: Navigating the Waters of Change
Location
Unistructure, MRC Lecture Hall
Start Date
15-9-1997 10:00 AM
End Date
15-9-1997 10:45 AM
Document Type
Presentation
Description
Discuss the opportunities and pitfalls associated with managing and working with an increasingly diverse work force. Issues include accepting and recognizing individual differences, the impact of stereotypes on behavior, double standards, and legal ramifications This program will be useful to those individuals and companies involved in efforts to establish, maintain, and effectively manage "corporate culture/'
Lessons in Diversity: Navigating the Waters of Change
Unistructure, MRC Lecture Hall
Discuss the opportunities and pitfalls associated with managing and working with an increasingly diverse work force. Issues include accepting and recognizing individual differences, the impact of stereotypes on behavior, double standards, and legal ramifications This program will be useful to those individuals and companies involved in efforts to establish, maintain, and effectively manage "corporate culture/'
Comments
FACILITATOR: Shirley Wilson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, Bryant College
SPEAKER: Beverly Ledbetter, JD, Vice President and General Counsel, Brown University
Vice president and general counsel at Brown University. Previously, she was legal counsel for the University of Oklahoma, where she was also an adjunct member of the law school faculty. She is a past president of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, a member of the Board of the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University, and is a fellow of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation.