Designing a Professional Workshop on Cultural Diversity in MBA502

This assignment details the design of a professional workshop focused on cultural diversity, emotional intelligence, and cultural intelligence, tailored for an MBA502 course. The workshop aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to understand cultural and social diversity, including concepts such as cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence. The workshop incorporates interactive activities, discussions, and self-reflection to facilitate learning and enable participants to apply these concepts in real-life workplace scenarios. The learning outcomes include defining culture and subculture, exploring acculturation, understanding the relationship between emotional, cultural, and social intelligence, and utilizing cultural intelligence to manage diversity and mitigate workplace risks. Furthermore, the workshop seeks to enhance the participants' ability to manage a diverse workforce in a global context.

Running head: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Cultural diversity
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Author’s Note

CULTURAL DIVERSITY
The present workshop is meant for the comprehension of cultural and social diversity,
along with the associated characteristics and concepts such as cultural intelligence, emotional
intelligence and social intelligence. The aim, however, is to enable the participants to grasp the
essence of these terms and to use them appropriately in an appropriate environment.
The professional’s development workshop is designed as an interactive and engaging set
of activities, which will facilitate the participants to grasp the concept of social and cultural
diversity within the context of real-life situations. Moreover, it is aimed at involving the
participants in a proactive manner. The overall design includes several tasks and activities,
allowing them to engage in self-reflection, observation, comprehension, critical thinking,
discussions and construction of opinions.
This workshop is essentially a professional development workshop. This workshop
denotes the merit of the activities as practical training for the participants to employ their
knowledge, experience and expertise into managing various situations at the workplace. With
these essential criteria in mind, the design of the course has been crafted with a careful choice of
activities that allow the participants to apply the learning outcomes in pragmatic and realistic
situations.
The expected learning outcomes of the workshop are as following:
i) Understanding cultural and social diversity
ii) Defining culture and subculture
iii) Learning the process and strategies of acculturation
iv) Exploring the forms of adaptation

CULTURAL DIVERSITY
v) Grasping the concepts of emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence and social
intelligence
vi) Understanding the relationship between these three.
vii) Being able to utilise cultural intelligence in managing cultural diversity in the
workplace
viii) Being able to realise the risk factors in the workplace arising from such
diversity
ix) Coming up with solutions to mitigate those risk factors using cultural
intelligence
x) Enhancing the participants' ability to manage a diverse workforce within the
organisation, based in a global world.