Practice & Policy

Put policy into practice

An inclusive workplace is good for everyone. When you put inclusivity at the heart of your organisation’s policy-making, the systemic changes it brings can benefit all employees.

Actions backed by policy

We’ve created templates that will provide the foundation for building a diverse and inclusive culture across all aspects of your business.

Create an inclusive environment

When people from diverse backgrounds work together, they bring with them a wide range of ideas, skills, perspectives and knowledge. Well crafted diversity and inclusion policies help create an environment where these qualities can bring benefits to the whole organisation. An environment that encourages participation, nurtures innovation and promotes collective responsibility.

Identify your strengths

Creating sustainable, systemic change to build an inclusive work environment is an ongoing journey. It requires setting targets that you can measure, monitor and report on so you can accurately assess your progress This will help you identify where your strengths lie and what areas may need to be adapted to address the needs of diverse employee groups more effectively.

Implement effective policies

You can probably think of many areas of your organisation where the implementation of diversity and inclusion policies would be beneficial. However, when implementing these policies, it’s important to make sure they are administered across all key areas of the organisation such as recruitment and selection, flexible working, training and education, workplace accessibility, and succession planning.

Fact

A powerful impact

For D&I efforts to be effective it is necessary that diversity, inclusion and equity are embedded into every aspect of the employee life cycle and organisation through targeted policies and procedures

PwC, 2020

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