Designing a Professional Development Workshop on Cultural Diversity

This document details a three-day professional development workshop focused on cultural and social diversity, designed for an MBA502 course. The workshop aims to familiarize participants with concepts like emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, and diversity, including the definition of culture and subculture, acculturation strategies, and the relationship between different forms of intelligence. Activities include self-assessments of emotional and cultural intelligence, group discussions, video analysis, and role-playing scenarios. The workshop integrates theoretical underpinnings with practical exercises, such as identifying cultural aspects, analyzing group dynamics, and simulating workplace situations to enhance participants' understanding of diversity and develop their cultural intelligence. The final day focuses on the development of cultural intelligence through cross-cultural training and application of learned concepts in a simulated work environment.

A Professional Development
Workshop on
Cultural and Social
Diversity
STUDENT’S NAME:
UNIVERSITY:

Instructions
 The workshop is intended to impart the knowledge of cultural and social
diversity.
 The workshop will span over three days, for 3 hours each day.
 The participants are expected to attend all the sessions and take part in
the activities
 The participants are expected to maintain discipline and professional
attitude in the workshop.
 Queries and doubts will be addressed during the interactive sessions
after each day’s activity

Introduction
Aim of the Workshop:
 Familiarizing the students with
cultural and social diversity
 Understanding the concepts of
 Emotional Intelligence
 Cultural Intelligence
 Diversity
 Integrating practices with theories
of EI, CI and diversity

Defining Culture and Subculture
 Theorization
 Definition of Culture
 Definition of subculture
 Relation between culture and
subculture
 Activity (day 1-- 2 hours)
 Come up with 3 aspects that you
think is related to culture
 Try to describe the culture of your
own community according to those 3
aspects
 Identify the different cultures you see
around in there class
 Develop a list of the characteristics of
your classmates identifying different
race, nationality, gender, language,
sexual orientation, religion, age etc.

Acculturation
Theorization
 Defining the theory of
acculturation
 Importance of acculturation
 Strategies of acculturation:
 Assimilation
 Separation
 Integration
 Marginalisation
 Multiculturalism
Activity (Day 1– 1 hour)
 Form a group of 5 students
 Identify the difference of
culture and social identity
among yourselves
 Try to assume the potential
risk factor that might arise
in the group
 Try to formulate strategies
to mitigate the risks

Adaptation
Understanding two forms of adaption:
1. Psychological adaptation
2. Sociocultural adaptation
Psychological adaptation entails
 Emotional intelligence
 Psychological well-being
 Sociocultural adaptation entails
 Interpersonal skills
 Cultural intelligence
 Social intelligence
Activity (Day 2 -- 3 hours)
 Assess your own level of
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
https://www.ihhp.com/free-eq
-quiz
/
 Assess your own level of
Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
https://commonpurpose.org/
knowledge-hub-archive/all-ar
ticles/what-is-cultural-intellig
ence/cq-test
/


The relationship between social,
cultural and emotional intelligence
Theorization
 Definition of Cultural Intelligence
or Cultural Quotient (CQ)
 Definitions of emotional
intelligence and social intelligence
 Difference between EQ and CQ
 Difference between Social and CQ
Activity (day 3– 1 hour)
Watch this video
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlcFB0NZHLo
&feature=youtu.be
 Discuss the components of CQ following
the video
1. Cognition (process of knowing,
perception, learning and strategizing)
2. Metacognition (Awareness of one’s
cognitive process)
3. Behaviour (mimicry of social processes)
4. Motivation (value congruence, efficacy
and confidence, persistence)
 Recommend alternative approaches to

Development of Cultural
Intelligence
Cross-Cultural Training
 3 components of cultural
intelligence
1. Cognitive
2. Physical Behaviour
3. Emotional/Motivational
 Examining cross-cultural training
based on these 3 aspects

Cross-Cultural Training
Activity (Day 3– 2 hours
 Form a group of 5 students
 Assign yourselves the roles
of a manager, 2 female
employees and 2 male
employees.
 Enact a situation based on
the given criteria and
incorporate the
components of CQ
 Imagine that you are a
manager of an MNC. You
come across an employee
who has made a sexist
remark to a female employee,
while others around him
laughed at his joke. How will
you react to that situation?
How will you further handle
the situation as a manager?