Diversity, inclusion and teamworking Flashcards
Can you name a type of team?
Design teams
Office teams
Project teams
What to say when asked where you have demonstrated teamworking
Focus on how you harnessed expertise of each specialist within the team
Look at problems the team overcame
Look how team communicated to work towards common goal
How did the team decide on a strategy?
Explain how all this contributed to the end goal
What is the Tuckman theory?
Bruce Tuckman - how a team approach a task:
Forming - assemble team and plan creating a bond
Storming - address task in hand, leadership is crucial here
Norming - agree rules and values of task in hand
Performing - collaborative decision making, identified by high levels of independence, knowledge and competence
Adjourning / Transforming - End of the project and team disbanded, is team return to any phase it is usually forming.
What is the Herzberg theory?
Frederick Herzberg - theory based on hygiene and motivational:
Workers will work hard based on motivational factors (i.e. job enrichment)
They become de-motivated if hygiene factors such as remuneration, comfortable working conditions and annual leave entitlement are not met.
What is workplace diversity?
acceptance and inclusion of all employees regardless of background.
It acknowledges individuals strengths and the potential they all bring.
Why is a diverse team beneficial?
Increases productivity - broader range of skills to complete tasks
Increased creativity - increases chance of generating solutions to problems
Improved cultural awareness - allows company to operate better in a global market e.g. having an employee who speaks French will be good for operating in France
A positive reputation - Potential employees want an employer who accepts and is tolerant of all backgrounds and who treats their employees fairly.
What are inclusive environments?
People of all cultural orientation can freely express who they are and their views.
Why are inclusive environments important?
Deloitte’s article on diversity and inclusion:
“A growing body of research
indicates that diverse and inclusive teams outperform their peers. Companies with inclusive talent practices in hiring, promotion, development, leadership, and team management generate up to 30 percent higher revenue per employee and greater profitability than their competitors’’.
What legislation or regulations relate to inclusive environments?
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are the Equality
Act 2010 and The Human Rights Act 1998.
What is unconscious bias?
Assumptions on a person based solely because of their race, gender or disability.
Made unconsciously. Major contributor to a lack of workplace diversity.
NPPF -
If they are planning on building anything/ new developments should have wheelchair access - property needs to be inclusive for all.
What are the 9 protected characteristcs under
1) Gender reassignment
2) Sex
3) Sexual orientation
4) Age
5) Disability
6) Race
7) Religion
8) Marriage and partnership
9) Pregnancy/ maternity
What is Part M of the building regulations?
Covers the access to and use of buildings
Approved Document M provides information about the ease of access to, and use of, buildings, including facilities for disabled visitors or occupants, and the ability to move through a building easily including to toilets and bathrooms.
Guidance on the use of ramps and steps is covered to provide ease of access, with information including safe degrees of pitch and dimensions when building a wheelchair accessible facility. The construction of accessible stairs and corridors is also addressed, including the safe height of stairs and the accessible width of both corridors and stairs.
