Workplace Diversity Policy Assignment

Running Head: DIVERSITY POLICY
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Assessment Task 1:
1. Meeting with CEO
Meeting Agenda
15th February
2:00 pm
Bankstown Office
Meeting called
by: General Manager Type of meeting:Formal Meeting
Facilitator: Leon Juliet (Facilitator) Note taker:Personal Assistant
Timekeeper: Ali Juan
Attendees: 8
Please read: All the members must be present within the scheduled time.
Please bring: Copies of presentation and laptop
Presenter Topic Time allocated
General Manager Introduction of the meeting 5 minutes
Chief Executive Officer Overview of the planning 5 minutes
Human resource Discussion on polices,
compensation plans, team
update and new hires of the
employees.
20 minutes

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Senior Manager What is working and not
working, desired outcome
on company performance
and change in strategy.
20 minutes
General Manager New strategies and changes
in the diversity policies and
procedures and the resources
required to fulfil the process.
20 minutes
Chief Executive Officer Final overview of the
discussion
10 minutes
General Manager Conclusion and outcome 10 minutes
Observers: Few senior employees
Resources: Books, notepads, pens, screens, microphone, whiteboard and laser pointers.
Special notes: New policies and procedures in implemented in the business culture.
Meeting Time:
Meeting Information

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Objective: [To implement new diversity policy & procedure]
Date: 15th February 2020 Location: [Bankstown office]
Time: 10:00 am Meeting Type: [Formal]
Called By: [General Manager] Facilitator: [Leon Juliet]
Timekeeper
:
[Ali Juan] Note Taker: [Laurie Stews]
Submitted
by:
[Mort Bark ] Approved by: [Frankie Brew ]
Attendees: [Frankie brew, Leon Juliet, Ali Juan, Phillips Joe, Mary
Joule, Jog Breton, Nary Blastula, Koll Stint]
Agenda Items Presenter
Time
Allotted
1 Introduction of the meeting General
Manager
5 minutes
2 Overview of the planning Chief Executive
Officer
20 minutes
3 Discussion on polices, compensation plans, team
update and new hires of the employees.
Human
Resource
20 minutes
4 What is working and not working, desired Senior Manager 20 minutes

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outcome on company performance and change in
strategy.
5. New strategies and changes in the diversity
policies and procedures and the resources
required to fulfil the process.
General
Manager
20 minutes
Decisions
1 The legal requirements will be implemented
2 Policies on discrimination will be added
3 Performance indicators will be implemented
2. Briefing Report
Introduction
The purpose of the report is to develop the diversity policy and procedures of Aus
Accountancy organisation. Aus Accountancy firm consists of 25 staff including all the senior
management staff and administration staff. Currently the diversity policy and procedure of
the company is very weak. The existing policies will be replaced by supporting diverse
workforce in the organisation.
Existing Practices
The organisation has diverse range of employees starting from senior management to
administration staffs. The company has diversity in work styles as compared to other

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organisational policies. Other organisational policies in diversity is related to workforce
diversity in terms of cultures, genders, perspectives and knowledge.
Diversity facts and figures
Australia’s diverse society includes;
 Indigenous Australians from Torres Strait Island of Australia and people from other
Islands of Australia.
 People born outside the country but have their residence in the country.
 Diverse religion of Christianity, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and Sikhism.
 People of various age categories consisting of middle age, young age, child age and
old age population.
 People with various types of disabilities including handicapped, visual disabilities,
hearing impairment, mental illness, low vision, depression & anxiety and other
physical disorder.
Diversity in Business
 Diversity in business leads to better decision-making. Diverse workforce in an
organisation come together with innovative solutions to the business related problems.
This will help the management in better decision-making. Diversity in culture will
create employees and the workforce to think in a different ways to analyse the
problem.
 Diversity in the workplace can exists by considering diversity training, giving more
attention to the organisational culture, recruiting the human resources from different
geographical region, recruiting from different background in terms of gender,
religion, culture and beliefs. Maintaining the diversity in the workplace by giving

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equal chance to all the employees to get a retention support, diversity in each and
every managerial level.
Impacts of Diversity
 Diversity is important for the society because, it helps to understand each other’s
cultures, values, beliefs and traditions of the businesses. Diversity is also important in
the workplace to reduce the employee turnover rate. Employee will feel more valued
and accepted in the company and will be able to share their knowledge and ideas.
 Diversity in Australia have contributed people of different cultures & lifestyles form
different indigenous population and immigrants from different countries. This has
raised into diverse range in cultural diversity helped the Australian companies to
maintain a positive relation with the multinational companies. Staffs from diverse
migrant workers were able to make a positive connections with these organisations.
This helped the Australian companies to maintain the efficiency of knowledge,
labour, goods & services and improve the business performance.
 Diversity in the workplace have different beliefs, values and cultures. This enables the
workforce in contributing different ideas and sharing their views. This helps the
management in making innovative solutions and better decision-making process.
Diversity theory
The theory of diversity tells that, people from multiple perspective of different
cultures will result in creating a better problem solving methods and helps in making
innovations. Diversity contributes to various business advantages like increases the
productivity, creation of employee engagement, variety of skills, increase the profits, enhance
creativity and improves business performance.
Benchmarks and other measurement indicators

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Performance indicators can be used to assess the impact of diversity policy in the
businesses. Sustainability indicators like SPIs indicators to measure the performance of the
company. Sustainability indicators is related to economics, culture, ecology and politics
constraints of the business. Proper indicator systems helps in efficient decision-making. The
complexities in policies related to diversity, diverse indicators are used for planning and
implementing the policies.
Example diversity policies and procedures
 Sexual harassment policy- This type of diversity policy is addressed for controlling
the sexual misconduct in the work place.
 Equal Opportunity and Affirmative policy- This policy is implemented in the areas
where the employees face discrimination in terms of gender, age, marital status,
religion, impairment and other characteristics in the workplace.
 Diversity hiring policy- This policy is used by the recruiters to diversify their methods
of recruiting the employees in order to attract more candidates for the job profile and
enhance the business performance.
Legal requirements in relation to workplace diversity
 Equality act 2010- This acts is established to create a discrimination law and protect
from unfair treatment in the society.
 Disability Discrimination act- This law was passed to reduce the discrimination
against the people suffering from disabilities in the work place, society, educations
and other contexts.
 Sex discrimination act 1975- This law was passed to protect the men and women
from the discrimination on the basis of sex and marital basis.