EDI Compliance for Businesses - A Bitesize Guide

Introduction

Discrimination legislation is well established, but we know that there is still a lack of equality in the workplace. This is evident through measures such as the gender pay gap, and when looking at the representation of ethnic minority groups, women and disabled employees at senior levels in different professions.

Why is there inequality? What is the difference between equality, diversity and inclusion? Do approaches to inclusion really work or do they cause different difficulties? To what extent can psychological safety be damaged by diversity, and how can this problem be addressed?

This 30-minute e-learning programme will explore these questions and identify actions that organisations can take to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace.

What You Will Learn

With interactive learning activities, knowledge checks and key reminder messages, the programme covers the following:

• Equality
• The facts - evidence of inequality in the workplace
• The reasons that inequality occurs
• The extent to which legislation can help to address inequality
• Diversity
• What is meant by diversity?
• Psychological safety
• The benefits and problems associated with diversity
• Inclusion
• Creating a more inclusive workplace
• What we can learn about achieving effective inclusion
• Specific initiatives that can be considered
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• What can we learn, and what should we do differently as a result?

You can take each section at your own pace, picking up where you left off and are able to see your progress throughout.

The programme concludes with an assessment. Your score will be recorded and 'super-user' reporting functionality for the organisation as a whole is available in the MBL learning platform.