And other organisational plans and programs
Intended and Unintended Impacts of The Diversity Strategy
“Forming ‘bridging’ ties in diverse environments plays a significant role in the positive relationship between diversity and tolerance, and that the presence of ‘bridging’ ties can also reduce the negative impact of diversity on social capital”, (Laurence, 2009).
The different set of people in a team minimize the conflict management build cohesive team build.
Encourage employees to celebrate diversities.
Lost productivity, lawsuits.
Diversity facts and figures
we want the most talented staff from all backgrounds and groups
increased innovation and diversity of perspectives
Monitoring a review of the Australian Public Service (AUS ACCOUNTANCY) Values, from 1 July 2013 the values now include: ‘Respectful – The AUS ACCOUNTANCY respects all people, including their rights and heritage.’ The Program must include procedures which have the goal of taking care of the following:
We must respect the different backgrounds and should attempt at using them as an opportunity for applying them in different ways of productivity in work.
The other related policies are EEO, affirmative action, recruitment and selection, talent management, development programs, flexible work practices, parental leave, succession planning, code of conduct, sexual harassment and bullying policy. The diversity policy should also focus upon the diversity and inclusion plan and program of AUS. ACCOUNTANCY.
Diversity policy should comply with the current and legislations to educate the employees on their legal obligations and behavior standards need to maintained. The following federal and state legislation covers workplace diversity and equal opportunity in Australia:
The Racial Discrimination Act
The Racial Hatred Act
Example diversity actions to inform the action plan.
Sensitivity training- It is an interactive training that improves the individual employee’s ability to understand themselves and others. This training assist in improving the listening and interpersonal skills and helps in resolving team conflicts.
1. Empower and Educate Managers
It is very important to educate your managers and employees so that they can understand the importance of the workplace diversity as it is very important, they support all there co workers so that they can promote the diverse workforce. That is why in order to achieve this the managers should be empowered and educated.
Additionally, they are able to see how other locations deal with similar problems and situations in a completely different way. This may encourage your employees to learn to think outside the box–and bring that thinking back to their own teams.
There are many ways to promote workplace diversity, therefore it is very important to state good examples from top to bottom focused engagement program can have direct impact on employee satisfaction, retention and performance, employees are the key of any organization as they are the one who builds the reputation and identity.