Advanced Teamwork Assignment: Diversity, Innovation, and Workplace

This assignment, addressing the BSB30115 Certificate III in Business, explores advanced teamwork, specifically focusing on workplace diversity and innovation. Part A defines diversity, anti-discrimination legislation, ethical principles, codes of practice, and privacy and disability laws, emphasizing their relevance in the Australian context. Part B identifies top cultural and religious backgrounds and discusses the government's role in managing diversity, innovation, and social justice. Part C analyzes the Australian Post's approach to cultural diversity, highlighting the Language Assist program, its benefits, and the internal and external factors influencing innovation. The assignment draws on references from Humphries, Negin, and Buchan (2019) and Mason and Robinson (2020) to support its arguments.

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Part A
1. Diversity is all about creating a careful culture where people are ready to help others.
According to the author Mason and Robinson (2020) the term diversity is used by both
the individual differences and the people in the social differences. Therefore in order to
create diversity in workplace the companies or business organizations have to assess the
customers care benefits and establish diverse mentorship to the customers. This will be
helping the company to enhance diversity with the customers of the business. Therefore
censuring that relations with customer and clients demonstrate diversity.
2. Different types of culture, different religions are few diversity issues which are relevant
to Australian society.
3. Definitions
 Anti-Discrimination legislation is something which makes sure that the
employees should be treated equally with all care and protection regardless of
sex, nature, religion and age.
 Ethical Principles are those which set the minimum standard of conduct and
integrity in the corporate bodies. These are the set of principles which try to seek
good moral in order to recognize their interest, right, safety and welfare.
 Codes of Practice are set of rules which the employees need to follow ion the
workplace. Few codes of practice are Work Health and Safety (WHS) and Health
and Safety Regulations.
 Privacy Laws refers to the laws which are known for dealing with the
regulations, storing and thus using the personally inflammable information which

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are collected by the government of the selected country. These are generally
collected in the private and public sectors.
 The workplace Health and Safety Laws ensures that each and every employee in
the organization is given proper care and taken care of in time of minor and
major injuries.
 Disability Law is something which is known for taking care for the disables
people living in the society. The disability law is majorly owned by the
government itself in order to move towards making a inclusive and progressive
society.
Part B
1. Top 5 cultural backgrounds are mostly from the Christian countries, Islamic Countries,
Hindus, Africans and the Greek.
Top 5 religion in UK are Christians, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Aboriginal
traditional religions.
2. Diversity is known for creating a social terms if followed correctly within the
development of workforce. Diversity encourages employees to work with everyone
disregarding the sex, age, color, caste and religion.
The government has been taking care of the Australian diversity management in terms of
global economy. The government has set various types of measures in order to increase
diversity management.
Regarding innovation it can be said that the country is much endorsed with various types
of latest innovative techniques. With the help of introducing diversity in workplace the

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organizations will be able to innovate more buy involving latest nd new employees in
workplace.
Diversity also crates social justice as because it help a community to sit together with
another community in order to merge themselves and work as a whole.
Part C
1. According to the author Humphries, Negin and Buchan, (2019) diversity is one of
the most important aspect for the people living in Australia. It helps the government
of the country to drive a better future for everyone living in the country. The kind of
diversity evident in Australian Post is Cultural Diversity.
2. The Australian Post saw the differences in a very positive way, they helped the
individuals to speak in different languages which is beneficial for employees to work
in workplaces.
3. The Language Assist is the innovation which has been made The Language Assist
program is an innovation technique which is used by the American Post in order to
inculcate the language diversity in the people living in the country.
4. The benefits to Australia Post from the innovation and innovative team as discussed
in the case study are that it has helped the employees to fuel into the creativity along
with they feel comfortable while sharing information with others in the workplace. It
has also helped in making better decision. The diversity management has helped
improve the language culture among the people and attracted to retain great
employees.
5. Few of the internal and external factors which has affected the Australian Post in
terms of being innovative and remaining innovative throughout is that the internal

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employees were from different cultural background who later on had critical
discussion regarding the policies which were implemented by the company for the
betterment of the people living in the society. Few of the external factors which were
added by the company were the lack of updated technologies and social factors
affecting the company from long.

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References
Humphries, N., Connell, J., Negin, J. and Buchan, J., 2019. Tracking the leavers: towards a
better understanding of doctor migration from Ireland to Australia 2008–2018. Human resources
for health, 17(1), p.36.
Mason, R., Doherty, K., Eccleston, C., Winbolt, M., Long, M. and Robinson, A., 2020. Effect of
a dementia education intervention on the confidence and attitudes of general practitioners in
Australia: a pretest post-test study. BMJ open, 10(1).