Workforce and population changes along with economic, social, ethical and legal concerns have made gender relations, gender mainstreaming and diversity management important issues in organisations. Companies are responding to the opportunities and challenges associated with these issues. The purpose of the Gender and Diversity Management Faculty Group is to establish a professional network that provides a platform for intensifying research and teaching related activities in the field of gender and diversity management. The objectives of the CEMS faculty group are:

• to promote understanding of the opportunities related to a diverse workforce
• to prepare students to take leadership roles in diversity issues in organisations
• to develop a consistent curriculum and up-to-date study material for cems students
• to intensify shared research on gender and diversity
• to increase the visibility of internationally relevant topics in the cems network
• to deepen the scholarly discourse on local adaptation of diversity management.

The Faculty Group on Gender and Diversity Management remains open to enable all interested CEMS faculty members to participate and contribute.

Work in progress: 

Block Seminar : Gender and Diversity Management: Towards inclusive organisations

Sunday, September 2 to Saturday, September 8, 2012 – Corvinus University of Budapest (Lake Balaton (Balatonszemes)

Block Seminar Description

The seminar provides an introduction to the field of gender and diversity management. In addition to raising their individual awareness, students will learn about the societal and organisational mechanisms of including and/or excluding people due to diversity dimensions such as gender, race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disabilities and religion/beliefs. The knowledge and experiences from the course will prepare students to take leadership roles, as change agents, in organisations in establishing inclusive management concepts and practices to achieve respectful behaviour towards a diverse work force.

Case study debriefing

Meeting at the Spanish Riding School with Mrs. Guertler, Head of the Spanish Riding School and CEO the Sacher Hotel

Seminar launch at a Heuriger