Activities to Foster Diversity and Inclusiveness at Workplace

Learn about the significance of diversity and inclusiveness at workplace and the challenges it poses. Discover effective ways to organise activities that promote positive relationships among colleagues and appreciation of diversity. Cross-cultural training, collective meals, and celebrating special days are some of the ways to achieve inclusiveness. Government regulations such as the Equality Act, 2010 also support diversity at workplace.

QUESTION:
Arrange for and organise activities that will help colleagues build relationships with others, based on appreciation of
diversity and inclusiveness.
It has been seen that diversity and inclusiveness forms out a vital and crucial aspect of all business
organisation and institution as it helps in increasing the overall productivity and creativity level of a firm through
leading a more skilled and talented workforce. But many issues and threats are also being lead out by diversity
comprise of higher level of chaos and conflicts at workplace based on diversity in culture and different perception of
colleagues. Thus, arranging and organizing certain activity that supports creation of positive relationship within the
colleagues and appreciate diversity and inclusiveness is important and vital. Further, it has been analsysed that human
rights and base human needs tend to be closely related and connected as it has been seen that the Human rights are
tend to apply for every person because they are a human (Drazenovich & Mazur, 2022). Along with this, human rights
can be seen as rights towards the fulfilment and achievement of the ability to fulfill and meet the basic human needs
which tend to provide grounding for human rights.
Further, use of many Frameworks, approaches and instruments are tending to be made at the workplace in
order to improve cultural awareness and leading higher level of inclusion at workplace which includes the getting and
ensuring regular cultural training to ensure creation of global citizenship based on leading education and respect for
all cultural and values. Along with this, it has been also seen and analsysed that bridging the cultural gap by the way
of ensuring and leading out effective communication skill and developing good practice manners is also an effective
way to support diversity and inclusiveness at workplace. Apart from this, focusing on celebrating the traditional
holidays along with having and organizing function for celebrating festivals of various cultures of diverse colleagues
in form of some collective meals where workers can learn about one another’s cultures by sharing food can also be
made to create and lead out appreciation of diversity and inclusiveness (Nakamura, 2022). For instance, creation and
arrangement of some sort of cultural programmed can be made for the diverse workforce that would tend to include
a collective meal between that would support better exchange of thoughts and lead to effective interaction among
the workers thus bring higher inclusiveness at workplace. Thus, focusing on cross- cultural training for all workers
belonging to different culture along with ensuring collective meals at lunch time and celebration for special days tend
to provide effective way to have improved appreciation of diversity and inclusiveness. Along with this, it has been also
seen and analsysed that many regulations such as
equality act, 2010 and other provision are also set by the
government to support diversity at workplace by the way of keeping check and control on all form of discrimination
to foster a positive environment that is inclusive in nature.
References
Drazenovich, G., & Mazur, D. (2022). At the Intersections: Supporting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on Campus—A
Northern Ontario Experience. Interchange, 1-22.

Nakamura, A. (2022). Fostering Diversity and Inclusion and Understanding Implicit Bias in Undergraduate Chemical
Education. Journal of Chemical Education.