Event Details

Positive Links Speaker Series: Lisa Leslie
#14646466
Monday, November 18, 2019
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Robertson Auditorium - R1100
Robertson Upper Lobby
Robertson/Stewart Lobby
R1450 Weiser Dining Room

Positive Links Speaker Series
Are Diversity Initiatives Effective?
Lisa M. Leslie

Monday, November 18, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
Diversity initiatives are prevalent, but not necessarily effective. These initiatives at times not only fail to result in the intended consequence of increased diversity and inclusion, but also produce unintended consequences that undermine their effectiveness. In this presentation, Leslie will describe the unintended consequences diversity initiatives can produce and provide examples of how even well-intentioned efforts to foster diversity and inclusion can go astray. She will also discuss strategies for making diversity initiatives more effective and thus better leveraging the positive consequences of diversity for individuals, organizations, and societies.

About Leslie:
Lisa M. Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She received her AB in Social Psychology from Princeton University and her MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Stern in 2013, she spent six years as an Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Leslie’s research focuses on diversity in organizations, and specifically understanding why organizational diversity initiatives often produce unintended consequences and what can be done to make them more effective. She also has secondary research interests in cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management. Leslie has received many awards for her research, which has appeared in journals spanning a number of different disciplines, and has served as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.

Host:
Lindred Greer, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Event link:
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/are-diversity-initiatives-effective

Sponsor:Center for Positive Organizations
Contact:Jacob Feinberg
Audience:Ross Community, All Current Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, PhD, Executive Education, Public, Media, Full-time MBA: First Year, Full-time MBA: Second Year, Tauber MBA: First Year, Tauber MBA: Second Year, Weekend MBA: First Year, Evening MBA, MAcc, MSCM, Erb MBA: First Year, Erb MBA: Second Year, BBA Sophomore, BBA Junior, BBA Senior, Minor in Business: Senior, Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, Minor in Business: Junior, Master of Management, Weekend MBA: Second Year, Minor in Business: Sophmore, Global MBA, Tauber Engineer: First Year, Tauber Engineer: Second Year, BBA Freshmen, Online MBA - CDO Career Prep, PTMBA Online
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