Diversity, Inclusion & Teamworking Flashcards
What is Diversity in the workplace?
Diversity in the workplace means that a company hires a wide range of diverse individuals.
Diversity is often misconceived as solely multicultural matters; however, it also applies to diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexuality, language, education, background etc.
What are some advantages of a diverse team?
- Different ideas and new ways of thinking
- Different backgrounds being different ways of thinking
- A diverse workforce adds to the employers brand and company culture
Please explain what inclusion in the workplace means to you?
The achievement of a work environment in which all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organisation’s success.
What is the difference between diversity and inclusion?
- Diversity - The characteristics and things that make us all different
- Inclusion - making everyone feel welcome
What is meant by the term unconscious bias?
The underlying attitudes and stereotypes that people unconsciously attribute to another person or a group of people that affect how they understand and engage with a person or group.
Can you explain what equal opportunity is please?
Ensuring everybody has an equal chance to take up opportunities, make full use of those opportunities on offer and fulfil their potential.
What is meant by teamwork?
- A cooperative effort by a group of people to achieve a common goal.
- In a teamwork environment, people understand and believe that thinking, planning, decisions and actions are better when done cooperatively
Why might a team fail?
- Poor selection of team members that do not meet the skills required to meet a objective
- Inadequate resources, conflicting personalities and poor leadership
Are you aware of the Latham report?
‘Constructing the team’ was a highly influental report prepared by Sir Michael Latham. This was commisioned by the UK government to investigate the problems with the construction industry.
The report found that the UK construction industry was ‘ineffective’, adversarial, fragmented and ‘incapable of delivering for its customers’.
It made recomendations that the client should be put at the core of the construction proces and that the industry should move away from its adversarial structure. Recomended:
- the NEC contract should be adopted
- partnering
- Avoidance of conflict
- risk allocated to party best able to manage it
Led to Egan report of how to implement.
Also some recommendations included in construction Act 1996.
Are you aware of the Egan Report?
Rethinking Construction was a report prepared by Sir John Egan. It made recommendations on how construction could improve and proposed that public bodies should ensure they become best practice clients for the rest of the industry to follow.
