Diversity and Equality in the Workplace

This assignment delves into the critical topics of diversity and equality within the work environment. It examines various facets of these concepts, referencing scholarly articles that highlight the significance of inclusive practices in organizations. The assignment encourages students to analyze diverse perspectives and understand the impact of policies on gender, sexual orientation, disability, and race in the workplace.

Equality and Diversity

INTRODUCTION
The equality and diversity in the business organisation plays a very crucial and vital role
in business operations. The maintaining of proper equality will help organisation to handle and
execute it business operations in a better way. It will also support business operations to manage
the needs and demands of people from different cultural background and help learning or
teaching firm to maintain a proper harmony by promoting better equality at work place and
supporting the people from diverse background (Alhejji and et.al., 2018). The report will lay a
significant emphasis on measure to promote equality and diversity, different strategies are been
discussed to set up classroom rules. The proper agenda and initiative will be taken in effective
thought process by teaching firm. Proper professional agencies are to be handled in effective way
to handle various business operations. Besides this, the effective reflection will be presented by
researcher at learning and training firm.
Main body
TASK 2
2.1 and 2.3 Define meaning of equality and diversity in creation of safe and learning
environment for the learners during teaching practices.
The teaching and learning practices are required to be followed in maximum number that
will help business organisation to handle its operations in a better way. I will see through the
adoption of effective measures that will help me to promote the better equality and diversity at
the teaching firm. The equality is practice or the behaviour of treating everyone equally, in
regard of their age, gender, languages, cultural background, religion, race, colour, class,
ethnicity, beliefs and other physiological factors (van Dijk, 2017). On the other hand, Diversity is
unique difference that make an individual different from another in a group of people. The better
following of equality practices and promotion of supporting the diversification of people by me
will help the teaching firm to develop a better handling of wide range of business operations that
will help the company to handle different learning measures and creation of a safe environment.
The incorporation of different equality measure like common classrooms, implementation
of no discrimination policy, celebrating and accepting differences, creating a positive perception
about each other in class room. I have also taken proper care of mitigating differences and
inequalities, promoting interpersonal understanding and transparency among students or learners
and preventing the development of any sort of stereotyping that can harm the people in physical,
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mental or psychological way. Besides this, developing the group of people with cultural mix and
promoting the proper socio cultural integration has also helped me to catalyse the development
of safe and supportive learning environment for the people of diverse cultural background.
Other than this, I have also established a set of rules and regulations in class rooms to
avoid and stop any sort of differences or discrimination. Besides this, it has also helped me to
develop better learning practices and measures that will help the learners or students to improve
their knowledge and skill sets in a safe and sustainable environment (Ng and Rumens, 2017).
Also, I have taken proper measures to increase the opportunities of progression and reduce the
language or understanding based differences at the classroom. I will also help the students with
the physical disability to get extra support and care along with equal and fair chance to showcase
their skill set and knowledge. The following of different legal obligations and policy measures
will help me to have a better handling of the learning process for the group of people from
diverse background.
Besides this, I will look after better knowledge transmission process and delivering of
information at workplace, and will keep a regular check at workplace to identify any sort of
symptom related to discrimination and differences. Other than this, the recruiting of trained and
qualified staff and work force at learning centre and managing conflicts and depression among
the learners will be key target measure to create and develop a secure and stress free, learning
environment. This will also help in promoting better self help and referral practice for student,
reduces the chances of illness and promoter the better negotiation and management strategies
that will be followed by me and other staff at learning centre. It will also help in better handling
of various directional and dissemination efforts that are been taken in consideration by the firm.
This will help the cited teaching firm to meet the needs and demands of learning organisation.
This process will support learning firm in effectively meeting the needs and demands of their
stake holders, learners and clients. The safe and supportive environment will help in better
development of quick learning processes and motivate the students to work effectively. Besides
this, it will pave the path of implementation of better information system at learning centre.
2.2 identify 5 strategies and actions used to promote equality and diversity.
Various strategies and actions are been taken in considerations by me to promote the
better strategies and actions to promote a good equality and diversity. As the class room may
consists of the learners from various culturally diverse learners, better implementation measures
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are been taken in consideration by the firm that will help the business firm to handle a wide
range of business operations (Mertkan and et.al., 2017). These strategies and actions will help
learning in a better way. These strategies will help the organisation to develop better and
innovative measures to promote a good and useful learning process. Some major strategies and
actions that are been taken in consideration are as follows:
 Breaking the ice: this action will involve implementation of better communication
processes and measures that will lay a very deep and significant impact on the overall
learning process by facilitating the effective communication among the people of diverse
groups. This approach will help in developing better interaction and interpersonal
understanding. The growth in understanding will help business organisation to have a
better group dynamics and share socio cultural value that will help the firm to improve its
effectiveness.
 Promoting the motivational approaches: The learning firm will look after the better
promotion and motivation of learner's from diversified backgrounds, at classrooms. It
can be intrinsic or extrinsic, depending on situation and will help learners to get
encourage for acquiring better skill sets and knowledge (Hafford‐Letchfield and et. al.,
2018). It will help the firm to promote its learners and help them to showcase their skills
and knowledge on a wider level. It will also help in better group formation and setting up
the guidelines and encouraging people to work in a more effective and significant
manner.
 Rising in awareness: effective strategy to promote the better cultural understanding and
eradication of any sort of differences on the basis of socio cultural or other factors. It
leads to the better sharing of values and setting up of better guidelines and strategies to
prevent the socio economic differences. Besides this, it will help the learning and
teaching firm to develop a better and innovative learning practices that will help the firm
to cater needs and demands of learners or students of different cultural background.
 Development of individual roles and responsibilities: the learning firm will see
through the better handling of wide variety of business operations that will involve better
development of role s and responsibilities of an individual. A better allocation of roles
and duties will help in development of better learning and implementation of educational
measures, that will help the firm to gain a better sustainability and prevent any sort of
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discrimination (Williams, 2017). It will help in eradicating the differences and conflicts
and develop a good grouping of learners with similar requirements.
 Sharing of social and cultural experiences: the interaction of people with diverse
cultural backgrounds will help the firm to help the organisation to handle its business
operations in a better way. It involves the better description and interaction of details and
beliefs of people and their cultures and beliefs. This practice will help the learning and
teaching firm to handle a wide range of conflicts and negative perception and eradicate
them in a much better way. This will also help in developing a better understanding about
diverse culture and beliefs and develop a mutual respect.
 Promotion of personal values: the learning firm will also look after the promotion of the
personal values and beliefs that are been possessed by an individual to gain a better idea
about others (Huffman, King and Reichelt, 2017). It will help an individual with diverse
background and beliefs will showcase his skills and knowledge in a better way.
TASK 3
3.1 A) Ten Point rules to communicate and promote equality and diversity.
The various rules and regulations will be taken in consideration by the organisation that
will help the firm to promote the better equality and diversity. This rules will help the firm to
handle the students and learners with diverse cultural background and beliefs and help them to
gain a better knowledge and skill set. That will help the firm to handle a wide range of learning
methods in a better way (Mik-Meyer, 2017). It will involve the effective measures to develop a
better communication and develop a better perspective and empowering them to perform in more
effective and better way. Also, it will help the firm to eradicate the language barrier and help in
developing of better interpersonal understanding. Some rules and regulations that are been taken
in consideration are as follows:
 Using of proper verbal and non verbal communication methods in classroom.
 Having an appropriate tone while communicating with each other.
 Having a non judgemental and positive perception towards each other to have better
communication skills.
 Respecting the contributions and beliefs of everybody and valuing their perspective in a
better way.
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 Usage or appropriate transactional analysis measures to equally assess everyone in class
and empower them by improving their knowledge and skill sets (Richard and et.al.,
2017).
 Developing of proper learning strategy with relevance to students knowledge and skills
along with socio cultural requirements.
 Preventing any sort of conflict and cultural issue based on language, beliefs and other
factors.
 Developing of better communication skills catalyse the development of better language
skills and interaction level.
 Following the appropriate behaviour that supports organisation and equality at the
learning firm.
 Motivating the fulfilment of needs and demands of a student or learner in a better way.
B) a.1) Schools program to enhance schools programme of initiatives in promoting Equality and
diversity.
As the Equality and diversity coordinator at my school, I will take in consideration a wide
range and variety of actions or measure to promote and facilitate the effective promotion of
equality and diversity in the organisation. The will also help in the better developing of strategies
that will help in effective rise in equality and diversification in a school. As a coordinator, I will
see through the effective implementation of wide range of business operations that will help in
effective rise in the acceptance and assimilation of people from different cultural group at
school, for learning process (Ali and et.al., 2017). Besides this, I will adopt proper resourcing
and assessment strategies that will help in better gaining and implementation of gained
knowledge and skill set. This will not only help the students to get a good confidence level but
also provide them with a better insight to showcase their learnings at schools in a better way.
Other than this, I will also promote and implement the inclusive learning practices that will help
in involving the students with different cultural group in the learning and knowledge gaining
process for all the students at school, regardless to their cultural, social or interpersonal
differences.
Besides this, I will also promote better learning and working practices for the learners to
function in a group as a team. These team building approach will help in better handling of the
operations and lead to the development of good interpersonal interaction or communication to
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develop effective understanding and allocation of roles and responsibilities to members in a team
or group of students. This measure or approach will help in better handling of learning functions
and gain an effective knowledge and skills set. Besides this, as a person on authority, I will look
after the different issues like socio cultural differences, bullying, communication gap and
language barrier and will take effective steps to eradicate them in order to empower and support
the learners with diverse background. I will look after the proper establishing and providing of
opportunities that will help in better handling of the group of people with diversified background
and share their knowledge and beliefs to develop a better understanding of their culture and
avoid any sort of conflict at school. As a coordinator, I will give out my services in the practices
like INSET(In service training).
a.2 Identify 3 professional or agencies and how working with them to promote equality and
diversity.
As a coordinator, I will be interacting with different agencies and professionals to help in
better promotion of wide range of learning processes. It will help the school, to negotiate with
the different specialised agencies that will help in better handling of learning processes of
students with diversified background (Fujimoto and EJ Härtel, 2017). This will also involve the
utilization of unified approaches and support students to control the number of people they are
working with. It also helps the school for proper sectioning of students with different cultural
background. Some major agencies that are been contacted by the coordinator will be as follows:
 Equality and Human rights commission (EHRC) : It is a UK based firm that is a
statutory functioning body working under Equality Act 2006. As the coordinator, I will
work with the organisation to promote the better equality and diversity in learning firm.
This will help me to prevent any sort of discrimination and conflict at school and promote
better relationship and promotion of universal human rights. This agency will help me to
promote and practice the community rights as per the law on the basis of gender, religion,
culture, race, nationality and sexual orientation. It also helps me to establish suitable
measures at school to promote the equality measure.
 Equality and diversity forum (EDF): As an equality and diversity coordinator, many
times I have to face the conflicts related to equality and diversity concerns and in these
case, these organisations will help me to promote the better handling of issues and having
their suitable rectification. This will help in developing the suitable social harmony in
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school and help me to have a suitable control over the conflicts, that will occur in the
school over the equality and diversity concern among people or students.
 Operation black vote (OBV): this is the agency that will help me to gain a proper
control over the different operations related to citizens or students from African and
Asian countries. This will help them to gain a better position and opportunities to thrive
in European continent (Shan, Fu and Zheng, 2017). Besides this, it will help me to
control and manage any sort of discrimination against them.
Other than this, I will also interact with various community and cultural groups and the
specialists or experts of equality and diversity in society to implement proper measures at school.
TASK 4
4.1 identify practical steps that a school can take to promote and ensure a culture of Equality and
Diversity in society.
Various sort of actions or measures will be taken in the consideration that will help in the
better handling of the different measures that will help the organisation to promote better
equality and diversity at school or learning institution. These measures will help in the better
growth and development of high class operations to mitigate any sort of conflict and manage it in
an educational firm. Some measures that are been taken in consideration are as follows:
 Limiting the anti equality activities: various steps will be taken in the effective
consideration that will involve the better handling of different measures like limiting the
hard language, discrimination, bullying, intimidation, harassment and confrontation. This
will help in maintaining the goodwill and harmony in society and will help the business
organisation to handle the effective learning.
 Avoiding of disruptive behaviour: the organisation will look after the effective measure
to control the disruptive and rude behaviour or the students or the staff due to frustration
and peer pressure or religious and cultural tension on the interpersonal level (Fältholm
and Norberg, 2017). The development of better understanding and implementation of
wide range of business operations will help the business firm to meet the operational and
behavioural requirements of an individual in a firm.
 Eradication of social inequality: the proper removal methods will be taken in practice
that will involve the development of proper self confidence, working with proper
community groups, developing of high confidence level and giving out the proper
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opportunities to the deprived and the people with diversified culture, in order to maintain
the equality and harmony in society. Besides this, it will also help in development of
different measure to fulfil the expectations of people.
 Setting up of better system: this will involve the proper rectification of the problem
faced by students to increase their flexibility and adaptability to social terms. It will help
in the better engaging of students of various cultural background. Besides this, it helps in
better handling of strategies and effective allocation of roles and responsibilities on the
basis of shared experiences.
TASK 5
5.1 Identify at least five key things you did in your teaching practice that promoted Equality and
valued Diversity in your school
Various measures are been taken by me to promote the better handling of the different
measures that will help to promote the equality and diversity at the school. This has helped me to
reduce the conflicts and discriminations and meet the needs and demand of the people with
diversified cultural background (Ali and et.al., 2017). Besides this, it has helped me in better
handling of operations of educational firms and lead to effective student engagement. Other than
this it will also help the school or educational institution to meet the operational demands of
students in a better way. Some major steps that are been taken in the effective consideration are:
 Establishing of equality law: this will help in legalising the ethical behaviour in school
and will help in the better handling of the various measures that will help in effective rise
in confidence level of the students of the various cultural background and meet the
operational requirements of educational institution. This will also help in developing of
the better harmony and interpersonal relationship that will support the effective rise and
development of firm.
 Eradication of differences: this will help in the effective handling of the different
measures that will help in better rise in operational capacity of an organisation. This will
help in dispute resolution and meet the organisational functionality. Besides this the
better growth of the interpersonal understanding and the rise in the operational capacity
of the firm will help in the better rise in functional calibre of the educational institution
(Ward and Forker, 2017). Besides this, it will help the firm to provide equal quality of
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educational resources and training to all the students, regardless to their cultural
differences.
 Proper sharing of information and experiences: the teacher will look after the proper
sharing of vital information like cultural beliefs and experiences to improve the
knowledge of students.
 Strict action on social discrimination: under the equality act 2006, the person will be
punished if found practising the discrimination at school or educational institution.
 Developing better activities of student engagement and skill and knowledge development
by educational firm.
5.2 Identify and explain at least two things you could have done enhanced your school’s culture
of promoting Equality and valuing Diversity
Different sort of measures would be taken in consideration that will help in the effective
rise in the operational capacity of the organisation and promoting the equality and diversity and
equality in better way. The two measures that could have been taken by me to promote better
equality and diversity in the educational firm are as follows:
 Imparting of proper training: the imparting or delivering of the proper training will
help in the better handling of operations and developing a good understanding of the
interpersonal level between the students. Other than this it will also help in the effective
rise in the operational capacity of the wide range of business operations
(UNDERSTANDING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE, 2015). Other
tan this it will also help the individual to gain the better handling of the different
operations that will help in the effective rise in operational capacity of educational
organisation.
 Developing better policy to eradicate the inequality: the development of the good
policy would have lead to the effective rise in the operational capacity of the firm and
will help in meeting the operational capacity that will help in the significant rise in
operational capacity. The better handling of policy at educational institution would have
helped in keeping the check on any sort of indifferences and discrimination that is been
practised by an individual student at the educational institution.
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5.3 Brief report on the impact you believe you made on your school’s Equality and Diversity
agenda
The various and effective measure that are been taken by me as the Equality and
Diversity coordinator in the firm ahas helped in the better rise in the operational capacity of the
organisation and will help in better management of wide range of anti discriminatory activities at
school. This has helped in better eradication of social indifferences and promoting better equality
and diversity in firm.
CONCLUSION
This it can be concluded that the proper measures of Equality and Diversity are important
for growth and development of the firm. The report has laid a significant emphasis on measure to
promote equality and diversity, different strategies are been discussed to set up classroom rules.
The proper agenda and initiative is taken in effective thought process by teaching firm. Proper
professional agencies are to be handled in effective way to handle various business operations.
Besides this, the effective reflection is been presented by researcher at learning and training firm.
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