Teams of 3rd year psychology students will assist you and your organization with a diversity or inclusion issue on the work floor. The teams will follow a 4-step approach (scoping, information gathering, analyzing, recommending) to provide the partner organization with insights and recommendations.
Teams of 3rd year psychology students will assist you and your organization with a diversity or inclusion issue on the work floor. The teams will follow a four-step approach to provide the organization with insights and recommendations to address diversity and inclusion challenges within the organization.
Check out this blogpost to read about how the company Enlight Ed experienced their participation.
✅ Key features of the challenge
Students per team: 4-5 students
Programme: 3rd year Bachelor degree Psychology
Course: Diversity and Inclusion at Work
No. of hours spent per team: 180
Duration: April - June
Deliverables: Presentation and report (in the form of slides) with recommendations and in-depth analysis
Company time investment: 1 hour a week, 8-12 hours in total (weekly (short) meetings, interviews, final presentation, etc.)
Matching fee: €850,- (ex tax, charged by Master Challenge (NOT the university))
Students and supervisors are willing to sign NDA and any other equivalent contract;
📑 Examples of inclusion and diversity challenges on the work floor
Maximizing heterogeneous teams’ output
Recruiting for diversity
Improving the position of (specific) minority groups in the organization
Evaluating performance without bias
In the course, all kinds of characteristics are being looked at (age, gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, disabilities, BMI, etc.) that people can be excluded on in various stages of the employee life cycle (recruitment, selection, onboarding, performing, turnover, etc.).
Find a possible template and earlier examples here
🔬 The student teams will assist their partner organization in four steps
Scoping: The team will meet with the organization and define the challenge. The team will endeavor to fully understand the challenge, consider the boundaries of the challenge, and set expectations on both sides.
Information gathering: The team will engage with the organization to collect information relevant to the challenge. In this phase the teams may, for example, interview stakeholders, look at policies, or investigate existing data.
Analyzing and evaluating: The teams will compare their findings to diversity and inclusion best practices and scientific literature. During this phase, the teams may re-engage with the organization for clarification purposes.
Recommending: After considering the findings in the organization and best practices around the topic of the challenge, the team will write a succinct report in which they present recommendations to address the challenge. Additionally, the team will provide a recorded presentation that supports the written report.
🏢 Company Requirements
The organization needs to be large enough to have diversity and inclusion challenges on the work floor.
The organization needs to offer the students the opportunity to engage with various stakeholders to obtain a complete picture.
💰 Costs
Master Challenge is organizing this challenge-based learning program free of charge for educational organizations. In order to cover costs like company recruitment, platform development, marketing, etc. Master Challenge issues a matching fee of €850,- (ex tax) per team. This is to be able to further operate and close the gap between education and practice.
❗️You will only be charged when matched to a team.
📨 How to apply
You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarizes the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge (max. 150 words). Click here for a template you can use.
Planning
April 9: Deadline for submitting your challenge
April 9: (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
April 9: Course kick-off
April 9: Matching phase
April 13: Student teams rank the challenges
April 13: Challenge owners rank the teams that want to work on their challenge
April 14: Matches are communicated
April 15-17: Kick-off meeting with your team
May 28, 09:00 – 17:00: Final presentations in time slots of 20 minutes (after you are matched to a team, we will schedule the time slots)
June 12: Students share a report summarising their advice
Once you're in a team, please discuss with your team members on which challenges you want to work and why.
One team member can submit this ranking + motivation in your team page, see: https://masterchallenge.me/account/teams
Once all teams submitted the challenge ranking we will ask the companies to rank the teams that want to work on their challenge.
Finally, we will generate and communicate the matches.
Good luck!