Are all things really equal in your workplace? Is it wise to take a deeper look? What could be gained?
By avoiding the issue of whether your organisation is really inclusive you could be:
A. Putting your head in the sand
B. Failing to celebrate success
C. Failing to get the best out of your staff
There is no limit to the award for compensation if discrimination in the workplace is proven.
Loss of reputation could damage sales and ruin chances of gaining contracts in a competitive market place.
Give your organisation an equality health check. It is worth the effort and will produce results. These simple steps will help:
- Ensure your staff have been trained to understand their personal obligation to abide by equality law and implement it in their working practice
- Analyse trends with staff to identify areas of concern and opportunities for improvement. This may include monitoring staff recruitment, retention, training and promotion by age, disability, gender and race.
- Seek staff views on equality and diversity
- Ensure all grievances and concerns are taken seriously and acted upon
- Identify the support you give to staff and customers with a specific need and promote this.
Ensure your staff have been trained to understand their personal obligation to abide by equality law and implement it in their working practice
A staff team that feels valued will likely show greater loyalty, work harder and spread the good reputation to stakeholders.
Equality and diversity is worth the effort, it just needs time, commitment and a team approach.
Opps specialises in equality and diversity. Contact us to see how we can support your organisation to achieve greater success.
It is becoming more and more clear to me, that when we embark on equality and diversity (E & D) we need to be mindful of two things: legislation and attending to attitude and bias. Sometimes trainers will try and hit all aspects of E & D with one fell swoop and then wonder why they fail to make a difference.
Planning effectively, in bite size chunks is the most effective way to ensure that E & D training moves people on whilst ensuring that they align themselves to legislation.