Workforce Diversity Management in NSW Education Department Report

This report examines the NSW Department of Education's workforce diversity policy and its implementation for non-teaching staff. The policy emphasizes fairness, inclusion, and a workforce that reflects the diversity of students, parents, and the community. The report outlines the department's commitment to equal employment opportunity, addressing underrepresented groups, and fostering a work environment that values diverse perspectives and experiences. It details the objectives of the workforce diversity policy, including improved customer service, enhanced employment opportunities, and the promotion of respect and fairness. The report references key documents such as the Workforce Diversity Policy and Aboriginal Education Policy, and discusses the performance and development procedures for non-teaching staff in schools. It highlights the importance of diversity in decision-making, problem-solving, and service delivery, and emphasizes the department's commitment to training and developing staff to achieve excellence. The report also includes information about performance management and development schemes, relevant to different staff categories within the department.

Diversity management for NSW education department:
NSW workforce policy clearly outlines the resolve from the NSW department to inculcate
fairness in inclusiveness and to prepare the kind of employees that relates to the diversity of the
children, their parents and community as a whole.
Statement of policy-objective
Commitment:
NSW department of education is of the firm belief that the diverse workforce not only represents
the diverse background of the children and their parents but also allows NSW to better
understand the needs of its customer in a specific way. This helps them to be more responsive to
the need of the community as a whole. To serve this they attract and retain talent from the
different background so that they can instill high standard of education and training amongst its
children.
The NSW also recognizes the individual differences in the form of language, nationality, culture
etc. and has a resolve to bring fairness in creating a balanced workforce irrespective of the given
differences so as to create equal opportunity and flexibility on the terms of employment.
The Workforce diversity plans are implemented at all levels of NSW department.
Managing diversity:
Diversity in the regard of NSW department of education refers to the Equal Employment
Opportunity, and includes the group that are underrepresented such as aboriginal/Torres strait
islander, physically challenged groups, members of ethnic religious minority group, Young adult
and women on senior leadership position. The other aspect of diversity may refer to the age
diversity, sexual orientation, family responsibility and socio-economic background.
The department takes the diversity as strength, as to not only increase the visibility of the
differences in the workforce but is strategically adopted to bring the ideas, experiences, know-
how and capabilities that are built that helps the department in making the decision, finding
solution to the problem, developing policy and delivery of services. This deliberates the
department to bring diversity in the workforce as a part of strategic need-that helps them to bring
changes, comes up with the new ideas and be responsive to the dynamic requirements of the
New South Wales. They take the resolve to train their staff and develop them to bring excellence.
The workforce diversity policy helps the department in achieving following objective:
 A diverse workforce that reflects the different background of the student and their parents
helps them bring better customer service responsiveness to attend the need of community
as a whole in NSW.

 Improving the employment opportunities for those who are underrepresented through the
workforce diversity plan and Aboriginal human resource development plan.
 To bring a work environment that respects and finds opportunity from the diversity in
getting insight of the problem solving, decision making etc. through the contribution of
employees with different skill set, background, experience and education level that helps
manage effective diversity management.
 Bringing awareness in all the employed members about the respect for all, integrity and
fairness as in regard to aspects of diversity.
References:
NSW department of education and community (2017): Work force diversity policy Retrieved from
https://education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/policies/workforce-diversity-policy
NSW department of education and community (2018): Aboriginal education policy. Retrieved
from
https://education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/policies/aboriginal-education-and-training-
policy