Diversity and inclusion training on workplace discrimination edu ppt

Slide 1

This slide provides information regarding the definition of discrimination. It also contains details of common forms of workplace discrimination such as race, disability, pregnancy, gender, age, sexual orientation, and parental status discrimination.

Instructor’s Notes:

Examples of workplace discrimination are discussed as follows:

• Racial Discrimination: Failing to recruit, train, mentor, or promote a person because he/she belongs to a particular race
• Disability Discrimination: Discriminating against a disabled person for a specific job role even if the role doesn’t have specific physical requirements 
• Pregnancy Discrimination:
  1. Forcing a pregnant employee to take a shorter leave than what is allowed as per medical policy
  2. Not providing reasonable accommodation to a pregnant employee
• Gender Discrimination: Giving unequal salaries to employees of different genders, i.e., male employees getting paid more than female colleagues for the same job position
• Age Discrimination:
  1. Laying off aged workers
  2. Taking harsher disciplinary actions towards younger employees
• Sexual Orientation Discrimination: Making hostile comments on employees belonging to specific gender identity
• Parental Status Discrimination: Remaining inflexible about work schedules for employees with childcare needs

Slide 2

This slide provides information regarding the negative impact of discrimination at the workplace in terms of poor employee engagement and satisfaction, decline in morale, health concerns in employees, company’s poor reputation, financial losses, and litigation.

Instructor’s Notes:

The damaging consequences of workplace discrimination are as follows:

• Poor Employee Engagement and Satisfaction: When employees face constant discrimination, it results in poor employee engagement and satisfaction that makes the work environment toxic, leading to a high attrition rate
• Decline in Employee Morale: Unfair treatment of employees causes a decline in morale that results in poor performance at work
• Health Concerns in Employees: Discriminated employees faces both physical and mental health issues:
  1. Physical: Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, high blood pressure, and migraines
  2. Mental: Depression, anxiety, and loss of self-control
• Poor Reputation: Discriminatory practices negatively affect the organization's brand image, leading to the loss of customers over time
• Financial Losses: Companies have to incur a financial loss when a discriminated employee quits, as extra resources are required to hire and train the new employee
• Litigation: Discriminated employee can file lawsuit in court against the company causing
  1. Reputational damages to brand name
  2. Financial damages in terms of compensation

Slide 3

This slide provides information regarding the preventive measures to minimize workplace discrimination such as developing written policy, establishing complaint protocol, and conduct trainings.

Instructor’s Notes:

The following measures can be taken to minimize discrimination at the workplace:

• Develop Written Policy: Devise a policy that prohibits discrimination at workplace and ensure that policy is enforced properly
• Establish Complaint Resolution Council: Set up a council to resolve discrimination complaints promptly and confidentially
• Conduct Trainings: Train supervisors and managers on how to behave nondiscriminatory in the organization to foster a diversity-rich environment

Slide 4

The purpose of this slide is to showcases meme collection reflecting discrimination in the organizations.

Additional Slide 1

This slide contains icons related to Diversity and Inclusion in the same color theme that can be used by you to provide additional information of your own.

Additional Slide 2

This slide can be edited by anyone to provide information about your organization. The slide is using the same color theme and similar design elements as the main deck.

Additional Slide 3

This slide contains editable 30-60-90-day plan and is completely editable to suit presenter’s needs.

Additional Slide 4

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Additional Slide 5

This fully editable slide contains Activity Calendar for Diversity & Inclusion activities that you can plan for your teams.

Additional Slide 6

This fully editable slide contains timelines for your plan around implementing Diversity & Inclusion agenda in your organization.