Gender Awareness E-Learning Provides a Foundation for Culture Change: While poviding gender awareness to all employees and managers may not change the culture, it does however provide a strong beginning, by establishing a common language and some basic key concepts for addressing gender issues. Gender issues are very difficult for companies to address because they are so personal to each individual and absolutetly strike at the heart of one's own perception of themselves and others. The issues become clouded around the way we talk about them and the terms and vocabulary we use to describe what is happening. The Diversity Academy of Scottsdale has found that managing gender issues in the workplace greatly increases communication, productivity and profits. The academy offers a gender awareness e-learning program for individuals and companies.
Synthesis Paper from the INSTRAW Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs: The final version of the Synthesis Paper entitled " Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women"by Sophia Huyer and Tatjana Sikoska is now available online. The Discussion Forum on Gender and ICT that this paper was a part of is also of interest.
Creating Value with Diverse Teams in Global Management, by J.J. Distafanao and M.L. Maznevski, this terrific article focuses on multicultural teams and what it takes for diverse teams to out perform homogeneous ones. It includes ideas for mapping to understand differences, bridging to communicate across differences and integrating to leverage differences. From Organizational Dynamics (2000), Vol. 29, #1, pp.45-63. Posted with permission of author.
Full Circle Associates Online Community Toolkit: This site provides you with everything you need to know to set up an online community, including tips, tools and case studies of good practice. Also provides links to top quality online courses for online facilitation, effective global teamwork and more.
Seven Tips for Communicating in Today's Diverse Workplace: Your employees may come from nations all around the world. The challenge: Ensure that their contributions aren't buried under language and cultural differences. From the Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge series, here are seven tips for improving communication.
Cultural Adaptation - A Necessity for E-Learning: Despite e-learning's promise of global, scalable benefits, it appears that the spread of e-learning around the world is patchy. We know from experience that learning activities must adapt to different cultures, yet there is little evidence that the current producers of e-learning are taking this into account. This document examines current best practices and suggest that e-learning will only fulfill its promise if it truly embraces cultural adaptation.
Foreign Faux Pas. Culture - The Final Barrier to Going Global: This E-Learning article (July 2002) on globalizing e-learning is a bit simplistic but gives some general guidance on globalizing we need to keep in our sites (sic) as we create e-spaces.
A Woman's Place is in Cyberspace--Four Online Alternatives to the Old Boys' Network: This article from Fast Company (November 1995) looks at Women's Wire, Systers and others, providing online coaching and career counseling for women.
