Diversity, Inclusion and Teamworking Flashcards
What is Diversity?
Practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of
- social
- ethnic backgrounds
- genders
- sex
What is Teamworking?
- Collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal
- or to complete a task in the most effective way
What is Inclusion?
Providing equal access to opportunities for people who might otherwise be excluded
Eg due to physical, mental disabilities or minority groups
How are team members selected and appointed?
- If a role within the team/company becomes available, this will be posted on the G&S website as well as social media. HR and the department will select CV’s that have been sent in
- Next, those who have been selected through suitable skills and experience will be interviewed face to face by HR and the department head, there may be need for a second round of interviews
What is your role when a new member of your team starts?
Firstly, introduce myself and explain some of my roles within the team as well as potential tasks they could help out on to get a feel for the work. I would give advice through or help they require
Explain the importance of diversity in a team?
- Different talents, skills and experiences
- Creates innovation and creativity
- Grows talent pool
- Can diversify client base
- Increase team productivity
What are the formal communication processes with your team?
- Vary between teams and within G&S but the same idea of Top down
- Partner to Graduate
Give examples of how you use teamworking in your current role?
- Monthly information meetings (team)
- Quarterly business development meetings (team)
- Graduate days (company)
- Annual seminar (company)
- Events
- Goals within the team
- Training
How do you promote teamworking?
- Good communication
- Listening
- Mentoring
- Goals and what is required to achieve these
- Promoting inclusive working
What skills have you got that contribute to teamworking?
- Positive Person
- Effective communicator
- Sociable
- Good listener
Explain what inclusive Communication is?
- Communicating by using inclusive language, what words to use and understanding potential negative words
- Making communication accessible (languages, brail and various platforms)
- Diversity within communication and campaigns
Does your company have any diversity, inclusion or anti-harassment policies?
- Equal Opportunities Policy
- Recruitment
- Training
- Breaches in policy
- Bullying and Harassment Policy
- Procedures
- Investigations
- Disciplinary action
What is unconscious bias?
- Underlying attitudes and stereotypes that people unconsciously attribute to a person or group that may affect how they engage with those people or group
What is the Equality Act 2010?
- UK Gov legislation that legally protects people from discrimination in the work place and in wider society
-(RICS rule 4)
Name the 9 protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010?
AGDPMRRSS
- Age
- Gender
- Disability
- Marriage
- Race
- Religion
- Pregnancy
- Sexual Orientation
- Sex
