1. Networking Skills and Mentoring

1. Discuss the benefits of developing strong networking skills. How would you rate yourself with regard to networking skills? What ideas do you have to further develop your network?
2. Describe the benefits of establishing a mentoring relationship. How is this kind of relationship typically established? What are the potential benefits to the mentor and the individual being mentored?

2. Did the content and discussion of material in Gender: The Basics help you to understand any or all of the following?

1. How would you respond if asked the following: Do you think social practices and institutions impact gender roles? If so, please give one example.
2. Based on the information available to us in this course (or via other resources), do you feel equipped to comment on or engage in discussion regarding the relationship between biology and gender roles? Please comment briefly on this.
3. Overall, please comment and give an example of the way/s in which the material & discussion may have impacted you.

3. Make sure you have read through the material on our course Blackboard portal under the heading Its The ManagerFuture of the Workplace section/excerpts. There are prompts (or course-related questions) embedded in the document. For this part of the assigment please choose two (2) of the prompts from the document and respond as appropriate. (Prompts appear after Ch 32, 33, 35, 37 & 39.)

Be sure to cut and paste your selected prompts/questions into the body of your assigmentWord doc and then add your response to each prompt. Responses can be listed as 3a and 3b. (complete response to a & b)

4. At this point in the course, if you had to identify one or two significant takeaways from the course (something that seems valuable enough that youll want to retain in the coming years), describe what this would be. Using paragraph format, please explain and state why it seems significant to you

5. FOR THIS LAST PART OF THE assigment: Please review the material below (in its entirety) and read the pdf (full case) provided on our Canvas portal.

Case: Introduction and Questions (below); again, the full case is on our portal as a pdfread this also!

Source of Case Study:

Overcoming Challenges to Gender Equality in the Workplace, Greenleaf Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78353-546-0

(Students--Please see the pdf provided on our course site under Case 1-Gender Equality)

Case Study 10: Thinking outside the classroom to promote gender equality: A rationale and roadmap for translating service-learning to organizations

Overview: Authors Meghan E. Norris and Katelynn Carter-Rogers share the following in their introduction to the case:

Organizations are unique in their cultures, and paths to gender equality may vary depending on context. The necessary solution for gender equality, therefore, may rely on the opportunities to provide organizations with contextualized insights into the dynamic barriers specific to that workplace, and the ability of that organization to identify creative and evidence-based solutions so that everyone can thrive in a dynamic context.

Please thoroughly read through the entire case study and then pay special attention to the table (Table 10.1) on pages 148-150. Researchers are speculating that service-learning can perhaps be used to help increase raise awareness re: women leaving the work environment in large numbers (at this one particular organization citedas high as 75% of women in the 1^st 5 years of employment), and then seek to build empathy among employees and managers as they explore potential cultural issues and possible steps to address any issues (and remedies) that may indeed increase retention.

One reason this article is significant is that using service-learning in an industry setting could have high potential/opportunity to make impact as we tackle issues that have led to inequalities in the workplace.