Week 3: college slides training/development and rewards

Question 1

What are the 2 main goals of diversity trainings?

Answer 1

1. Increase awareness of diversity issues
2. Learn skills and attitudes needed to work with people who are different from themselves

Question 2

What are the 6 ingredients of successful diversity training?

Answer 2

1. Task interdependence (engage in task, don’t ‘just do’)
2. Passive/active forms of instruction
3. Human instructor led not computer based
4. Minimum of 4 hours
5. Multiple sessions instead of a single session
6. Voluntary and not mandatory

Question 3

What is ethics training, how is it given and does it work? (3)

Answer 3

1. Training designed to enhance knowledge, skills and decision making in ethics
2. Usually by games and behavioral simulation (role-play)
3. Preliminary evidence that it works

Question 4

What is an essential component within rewards systems to build inclusive organizations?

Answer 4

1. outcome interdependence –> because they result in higher levels of social integration

Question 5

What are the 3 reward recipes for disaster?

Answer 5

1. Unequal outcomes
2. Competition between coworkers
3. Variable pay incentives