Diversity Audit Gm545

Course Project: Diversity Audit

Objectives | Guidelines | Course Project Milestones | Grading Rubric

Objective

For the course project, each student is to select an organization and perform a diversity audit. You will then prepare a paper outlining your research and results.

Review the detailed information contained in the textbook Harvey Case #47, Evaluating Diversity and Inclusion in the Real World: Conducting a Diversity Audit, for preliminary information to assist you.

Guidelines

As you progress through the project, you'll want to use the process flow diagram given below as a guide.

1. The objective here is to provide an interpretation of your results and support for all of your conclusions using evidence from your audit and generally accepted knowledge, if appropriate.

2. Interpret the data in the Discussion section in appropriate depth. This means that when you explain a phenomenon, you must describe mechanisms that may account for the observation. If your results differ from your expectations, explain why that may have happened. If your results agree, then describe the theory that the evidence supported. It is never appropriate to simply state that the data agreed with expectations and not explain it further.

3. Draw what conclusions you can based upon the results that you have.

4. You may suggest future directions, such as how the audit might be modified to accomplish another objective.

5. Explain all of your observations as much as possible, focusing on mechanisms.

6. When you refer to information, distinguish data generated by your own studies from published data.

Course Project Milestones

Week 2 Select an organization for your Professor's approval Required by ungraded

Week 3 Course Project Draft due 90 points

Week 7 Final Project Paper due 200 points

(See Syllabus, Due Dates for Assignments & Exams, for due date information.)

Week 2: Select Organization

This week, you should be working on Steps 1...