Multiculturalism in collegiate management education

Abstract

Notes that one common response by management textbook writers and publishers to the need for multiculturalism in collegiate management education is to add chapters to standard management textbooks. Argues that management educators can better prepare students to communicate and work with diverse employees and customers by creating learning experiences that challenge how students make sense of events around them. To integrate cultural diversity means transforming the instructional focus to include information literacy assignments to allow students to appreciate and understand fully the multitude of interpretations of diversity, and the manifestation of such issues in the workplace. Feels that any diversity‐related information assignments should provide a basis for co‐operation and group work among the students, integrate both written and oral outcomes, and respect differing ways of learning and achieving. What is relevant is how diversity‐related information is processed and integrated by management students to solve problems and enhance understanding.