School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Diversity and Inclusion
  • Unit Code

    HRM6007
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Eva ZELLMAN

Description

The unit explores the principles and practices for developing a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. Through engaging in this unit, students cultivate an awareness and understanding of the core opportunities and challenges associated with managing a diverse workforce.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

T39 and T82 students must have completed a minimum of 40 credit points to enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to MAN6726.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the individual and organisational benefits of increasing inclusion and diversity in workplaces.
  2. Evaluate the key barriers to creating inclusive and diverse workplaces.
  3. Create a measurable Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) strategy for one or more historically disadvantaged group underpinned by contemporary D&I models and practice.

Unit Content

  1. Evolution of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) frameworks.
  2. D&I maturity models.
  3. Privilege, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and bias – what they are and how they play out.
  4. Identity and authenticity in the workplace.
  5. Inequity and how it has impacted on specific diversity groups.
  6. Compounded inequity through intersectionality.
  7. Relationships between inclusion and individual and enhanced organisational and individual outcomes including psychological safety, wellbeing and innovation.
  8. D&I as a measurable organisational strategy, metrics that matter.
  9. Embedding D&I in organisational practices and policies.
  10. Benchmarking D&I.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseWeekly Activities10%
PresentationIssue Analysis Presentation40%
ReportMajor Report50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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