Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE)

Community Engagement is prevalent in higher education institutions nowadays. Ideally, involvement in community engagement requires one to possess a strong teamwork spirit and skills to successfully achieve its goals. Addressing the issue of diversity in a team at workplace is crucial in the enhance...

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Main Authors:	A Manaf, Aini Maznina, Ahmad, Zeti Azreen
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/74727/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/74727/1/74727_Managing%20diversity_complete.pdf

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spelling	iium-747272020-03-02T18:51:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/74727/ Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE) A Manaf, Aini Maznina Ahmad, Zeti Azreen H Social Sciences (General) Community Engagement is prevalent in higher education institutions nowadays. Ideally, involvement in community engagement requires one to possess a strong teamwork spirit and skills to successfully achieve its goals. Addressing the issue of diversity in a team at workplace is crucial in the enhancement of teamwork spirit. Increasing demographic changes in organisations require people of different backgrounds to work together on a daily basis. As a result, it is common for groups and teams in organisations to be composed of members of different backgrounds. In a higher educational institution, working with academics of various disciplines in a community engagement projects are common. However, not much is known on the benefits of working in a diverse workgroups of community engagement projects. As such, this this study aims to explore how experiencing diversity in a workgroup enhances the researchers’ teamwork in community engagement projects. This study will employ qualitative methodology. Interviews with researchers involved in community engagement projects of a higher educational institution in Malaysia were carried out. 2019-08-27 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74727/1/74727_Managing%20diversity_complete.pdf A Manaf, Aini Maznina and Ahmad, Zeti Azreen (2019) Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE). In: International Seminar on the Roles of Universities in Responding to Psychosocial Issues in Community (ISRUPIC 2019), Riau, Indonesia. (Unpublished)
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description	Community Engagement is prevalent in higher education institutions nowadays. Ideally, involvement in community engagement requires one to possess a strong teamwork spirit and skills to successfully achieve its goals. Addressing the issue of diversity in a team at workplace is crucial in the enhancement of teamwork spirit. Increasing demographic changes in organisations require people of different backgrounds to work together on a daily basis. As a result, it is common for groups and teams in organisations to be composed of members of different backgrounds. In a higher educational institution, working with academics of various disciplines in a community engagement projects are common. However, not much is known on the benefits of working in a diverse workgroups of community engagement projects. As such, this this study aims to explore how experiencing diversity in a workgroup enhances the researchers’ teamwork in community engagement projects. This study will employ qualitative methodology. Interviews with researchers involved in community engagement projects of a higher educational institution in Malaysia were carried out.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	A Manaf, Aini Maznina Ahmad, Zeti Azreen
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title	Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE)
title_short	Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE)
title_full	Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE)
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publishDate	2019
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Managing diversity: enhancing team experience in university community engagement (UCE)

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