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Culture and Diversity
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Culture and Diversity
 
Dealing with diversity in the workplace is the 
current and most urgent challenge for employers and employees alike. Increasing legislation is placing a greater demand on employers to ensure that discrimination is avoided. In less than a lifetime society has changed. Language, behaviour and procedures that were once common place in our culture have all now been declared unacceptable.
 

For many people it is not easy to change their attitudes and bahviours to fit with what we now understand to be a better way of relating to each other.

Our attitudes to the six strands of diversity - age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and disability - have all developed through the culture in which we grew up.

The culture gap across time can be as difficult to cross as a culture gap caused by geographical distance.

 

The aims of this programme are:

 

-to give participants an awareness of how culture shapes attitudes,

-to appreciate the way in which our culture has been examined and found to be unacceptable in our attitudes to certain groups of people,

-to recognize how procedures, language and behviours can be unintentionally offensive or discriminatory,

-to work out a strategy for examining procedures, language and behaviours to become more inclusive in how we relate in the workplace.

 

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