Management in India

Managing diversity

Every organization has a Workplace Equal Opportunities policy, and several pages of documentation to explain workplace equality and the organization's commitment to ensure that no one is treated unfairly on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, gender, marital status, and many more criteria. This policy document, like many others, is likely to be not read by most of the employees. They know they have to respect diversity, but unlikely to spend half a day reading through the policy. Smart organizations know this and they create mandatory online trainings that are much easier to understand and drive home the point with real examples and interactive pop-quizzes. In any ...