ABUS 4545
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Credits3
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Delivery MethodFully online
About This Course
This course focuses on the employee as an individual and the ways unconscious bias adversely affects organizational culture, including stifling decision-making, productivity, innovation, and market competitiveness. Through self-examination and reflection within the context of their own experience, students will explore the concepts of identity, privilege, and conscious and unconscious bias, as well as their financial impacts on the organization. They will identify ways they can mitigate workplace bias by holding themselves and their organization accountable. The concept of allyship will also be explored. Students will learn how, by putting allyship into practice, they can contribute to the creation of an inclusive work environment. By building empathy, embracing differences, and using emotional intelligence techniques, students will learn how to create and foster a healthy work environment. Throughout the course, they will develop an understanding of the ways recognition of individual biases can unlock the potential of both themselves and the organization.
Required Textbooks
- Diangelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism. Beacon Press: Boston,
Massachusetts. ISBN #978-0-8070-4741-5 - Ross, H. (2020). Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. Rowan & Littlefield:
Lanham, Maryland. ISBN #978-1-4422-3083-5
Recommended Textbooks
- Greenwald, A. & Banaji, M. (2013). Blindspot. Bantam Books: New York, New York. ISBN #978-0-345-52843-8
- Kendi, I. (2019). How to Be an Antiracist. Random House: New York, New York. ISBN #978-0-525-50928-8
- Menakem, R (2017). My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and
Bodies. Central Recovery Press: Las Vegas, Nevada. ISBN #978-1-942-09447-0
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Instructors
BA, economics, Clark Atlanta University; MA, international management with a concentration in finance, University of St. Thomas
Mr. Hampton is the owner/CEO of a real estate acquisition and investment firm. Before that he worked in investment banking, commodities, traditional banking, and the credit card industry. His employers have included Metris Companies, U.S. Bancorp, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, and Piper Jaffray. Throughout his career, he has worked tirelessly on initiatives to unlock the potential of individuals in diverse workplaces. Mr. Hampton has extensive teaching experience at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He currently teaches business, finance, and economics at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and Concordia University, where he is finance chair.
- ABUS 4217 – Real Estate Development: Process and Tools
- ABUS 4545 – Mitigating Bias in the Workplace
BA, political science/pre-law, Clark Atlanta University; MBA, human resource management, and EdD, organization development, University of St. Thomas
Dr. Hampton has over 25 years of experience in strategy development, organization and leadership development, change management, talent management and acquisition, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, training and learning development, performance management, total rewards and recognition, employee relations, project management and planning, process redesign and implementation, HR outsourcing, business acquisitions, and reorganizations. Tonya has spent the last decade designing and executing critical human resources practices, culture changes, organizational effectiveness, and diversity and inclusion in the healthcare industry. She is an adjunct professor at St. Catherine University and St. Thomas University, teaching in the master’s programs for leadership and organization development.
- ABUS 4104 – Management and Human Resources Practices
- ABUS 4545 – Mitigating Bias in the Workplace