{"title":"An Exercise for Expanding Privilege Awareness Among Management Students and Faculty","authors":"V. C. Rabelo, Robert L. Bonner, O. J. Stewart","doi":"10.1177/10525629221126199","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The ability to notice and eliminate organizational inequities begins with privilege awareness: an understanding of how individuals and social groups experience exemption from discrimination as well as access to unearned advantages, such as disproportionate access to resources. Thus, privilege awareness is necessary for noticing, naming, and repairing inequities in our workgroups, organizations, and institutions. Engaging with privilege discourse in the classroom can be a monumental task for both management educators and learners without the requisite level of privilege awareness. We introduce an innovative exercise to develop and assess students’ understanding of privilege. The purpose of this exercise is to help learners identify and reflect on privilege in their personal and organizational lives, and build a shared vocabulary for doing so. Learners begin by mapping and reflecting on their various social identity group memberships, then answer a set of reflection questions. We provide an overview of this exercise including learning outcomes, general implementation guidelines, assessment criteria, and activity modifications. We also analyze the activity’s effectiveness based on responses from 83 students. We conclude with a discussion of how facilitators can respond to participant feedback as a resource for self-reflexivity and intersectional awareness.","PeriodicalId":47308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Management Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10525629221126199","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The ability to notice and eliminate organizational inequities begins with privilege awareness: an understanding of how individuals and social groups experience exemption from discrimination as well as access to unearned advantages, such as disproportionate access to resources. Thus, privilege awareness is necessary for noticing, naming, and repairing inequities in our workgroups, organizations, and institutions. Engaging with privilege discourse in the classroom can be a monumental task for both management educators and learners without the requisite level of privilege awareness. We introduce an innovative exercise to develop and assess students’ understanding of privilege. The purpose of this exercise is to help learners identify and reflect on privilege in their personal and organizational lives, and build a shared vocabulary for doing so. Learners begin by mapping and reflecting on their various social identity group memberships, then answer a set of reflection questions. We provide an overview of this exercise including learning outcomes, general implementation guidelines, assessment criteria, and activity modifications. We also analyze the activity’s effectiveness based on responses from 83 students. We conclude with a discussion of how facilitators can respond to participant feedback as a resource for self-reflexivity and intersectional awareness.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Management Education (JME) encourages contributions that respond to important issues in management education. The overriding question that guides the journal’s double-blind peer review process is: Will this contribution have a significant impact on thinking and/or practice in management education? Contributions may be either conceptual or empirical in nature, and are welcomed from any topic area and any country so long as their primary focus is on learning and/or teaching issues in management or organization studies. Although our core areas of interest are organizational behavior and management, we are also interested in teaching and learning developments in related domains such as human resource management & labor relations, social issues in management, critical management studies, diversity, ethics, organizational development, production and operations, sustainability, etc. We are open to all approaches to scholarly inquiry that form the basis for high quality knowledge creation and dissemination within management teaching and learning.