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    Dark Side of Employee Relationships: Stereotypes and Prejudices

    Date: November 20, 2019, 7:00am – 9:00am
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    Bay City Restaurant
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    Dark Side of Employee Relationships: Stereotypes and Prejudices

    presented by Dr. Pratibha Kumar.  She is the Founder of Sungh Consultancy LLC, a diversity and inclusion company in the Washington D.C./Baltimore metro region.  She is also an Assistant Professor of Communication at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland.  She holds a Ph. D. in Communication and Public Discourse, and has been teaching and doing research for the last 15 years.  Her teaching and research interests include diversity, immigration, multiculturalism, and gender.  Some of her research studies include: cultural differences among astronauts on the International Space Station, social change and reform in developing countries, immigration issues, Muslims and Islamophobia, etc. 

    The presentation will cover the dark side of communicating with people from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and national backgrounds—stereotypes and prejudices (and biases, time permitting). It will touch upon the characteristics of each of these, how to recognize them, their degrees or levels, what causes them and how to avoid them. This information will be particularly valuable for HR professionals because they will explore how stereotypes and prejudices affect employees and their working relationships, impede effective communication among employees, and influence morale, productivity and teamwork.