Diversity Complete Assessment

Canterbury Business College
CRICOS Code – 01899K RTO Code - 6554
Unit description:
ASSESSMENT
Cluster Diversity
Unit Code BSBDIV501
Unit Name Manage diversity in the workplace
Qualification Name Certificate IV In Commercial Cookery
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Submission Details
The Assessment Task is due on the 22 October 2019. Any variations to this
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To provide you with an opportunity to identify how to develop a table with fields and attributes according to
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Your trainer or assessor may require you to complete this assessment activity and will
provide you with instructions as to how to present your responses. They may provide
alternative or additional assessment activities depending on the circumstances of your
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The following table maps the assessment activity for this chapter against the element
and performance criteria of Element 1 in BSBDIV501 Manage diversity in the
workplace.
Part Element Performance criteria
A 1 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
B 1 1.3, 1.4
C 1 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
The following table maps the assessment activity for this chapter against the element
and performance criteria of Element 2 in BSBDIV501 Manage diversity in the
workplace.
A 2 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
B 2 2.2
C 2 2.4, 2.6
The following table maps the assessment activity for this chapter against the
element and performance criteria of Element 3 in BSBDIV501 Manage diversity
in the workplace.
A 3 3.1, 3.2
B 3 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
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Assessment description
This assessment activity is designed to assess your skills and knowledge in

implementing a diversity policy.
Procedure
To complete this assessment activity, you need:

● access to a workplace or simulated environment
● access to workplace diversity policy documents and relevant legislation
● to answer the questions and submit responses as directed by your
trainer/assessor/training organisation.
Portfolio of Foodeaty Pty Ltd.
Foodeaty is a hospitality business based in Sydney, focused on catering food to big

functions and other business entities with ready to eat meals.
Element 1
Part A
1. Write your response to the following requirements:
a. List three major pieces of federal legislation related to diversity.
b. Briefly explain what each covers. You may wish to use a table similar to the
following to present your response.
Legislation Explanation
Sex Discrimination Sex discrimination is an act that encourages
equality between men and women in order to
remove discrimination based on sex, marital
status or pregnancy and to remove sexual
harassment at work.
Sex harassment in the workplace arises when
someone is viewed less favourably than
someone of the same sex.
Disability The Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act
Discrimination arises where, under the same or equivalent
situations, a person with a disability is treated
differently than other individuals without a
disability.
Age Discrimination The Commonwealth anti-discrimination
legislation defines the Age Discrimination Act to
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safeguard a person from age discrimination.
This Act takes place where a person is viewed
less favourably, or someone does not give the
same chance as other peers, whether he or she
is considered too old or too young.
2. Write your response to the following requirements:

a. In your own words, describe in one or two paragraphs what diversity in the
workplace means?
The meaning of diversity is a person that is different from the majority of others or
different from the established convention.
The diversity in a workspace is not just acknowledging the differences such as age,
disability, gender or expression of religion and sexual orientation but about accepting
positively and creating an environment that embraces and values differences and
promotes inclusiveness.
b. Why is it a good idea to have a diverse workforce?

Having diversity in the workplace can be helpful for the business. We can leverage the
personal experiences and cultural upbringing of our workers to generate innovative
ideas and fresh insights that can help the company interact with consumers.
Diversity in the workplace makes people feel valued and they will appreciate working
for that business. If people feel valued naturally they will give more to the business
3. Explain in one paragraph why an organisation should have a diversity policy.

For every organisation, diversity and inclusion are important. It is not only ethically
right to promote diversity, but it also benefits the organization on creativity, higher
employee engagement, reduces and has a new perspective point of view and strategic
advantage of a small business.
4. Describe at least three ways a manager can ensure the diversity policy is explained
to staff, is understood and easily accessed.
1.Organize one to one if any of the staff members need more attention to the
understanding of diversity changes.
2.Manager can organize a meeting where will explain the diversity policy changes is a
slide presentation and provide a written form to refer.
3.Every staff member is different and needs a diverse method of learning, the
manager can provide a session to those that need a more practical approach to be
understood.
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5. Provide four actions that management and staff should follow to ensure they
comply with a diversity policy.
● Diversity workshop/training session
● Meetings to address the transposition of diversity policy to corporate practises
and procedures
● Discussion on diversity,
● Allowing a short amount of time to elapse for the reading of information,
questions to be answered and confirmation/clarification of meaning
6. List at least three ways in which an organisation can review the policy and
encourage suggestions for improvement.
● Organize a meeting for reviewing and feedback to improve implementation.
● An open-door approach to address matters of interest and diversity.
● Reviewing diversity implementation after an initial period of time has passed.
Part B
Read the case study, then answer the questions that follow.
Case study
A staff member, Kirsty, overhears a group of colleagues discussing
another staff member and making disparaging comments about this
person based on their appearance and race.
After giving the matter some thought, Kirsty speaks to Blake, her
manager, who says, ‘I’ll attend to the matter as soon as I can find some
time’.
Blake mentions the conversation the next day to the HR manager. The HR
manager is disappointed, as the diversity policy was recently reviewed
and discussed with all staff. She is also disappointed that Blake did not
address the issue immediately. She asks Blake what he intends to do
about the matter. Blake says he will check whether all his staff attended
the diversity training held the previous month, then arrange a team
meeting to discuss the issue. The HR manager insists on a response by
the end of the day.
1. What part of the organisation’s diversity policy and legislation was breached?
The organization policy has been breached is the equal between race and is refer
to the legislation of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 that seeks to protect
individuals from discrimination based upon their race.
2. What action should have been taken when the staff member raised the disparaging
remarks with the manager?
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The manager should take action straight after to understand more about the event
and to organize a meeting or a training session.
3. What message was communicated to Kirsty (and those making the disparaging
remarks) by the response of the manager?
The manager Blake said to Kristy that he was going to mention the conversation
the next day to the HR manager.
4. Whose responsibility do you think it is to ensure all staff attended the diversity
training?
The designed person in charge, so in this case was Blake.
5. How can the incident be used to improve the policy?

With the team meeting that will be held, Blake will ensure the issue will be
addressed and solved, in doing so this will improve and reinforce the policy in a
way that is not going to happen again. This will reinforce and remind other staff
members about the importance of this policy.
Part C
Prepare a portfolio of information to provide evidence that you can implement a
diversity policy.
6. Locate a diversity policy and place it in your portfolio. In one paragraph, describe
the organisation it was developed for and the diversity of the staff. Explain when
the policy was last reviewed.
The diversity policy has been developed for a big restaurant called Foodeaty in
Sydney. Foodeaty has a strong commitment to diversity and seeks to promote an
inclusive culture where people are encouraged to succeed to the best of their
ability. Event recognises that diversity contributes to its business success and
aspires to a workforce reflective of the communities in which it operates.
Diversity is about recognising and valuing the contribution of people from different
backgrounds, with different perspectives and experiences. Diversity includes but is
not limited to gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity, religion and
cultural background.
The policy was last reviewed a year ago, and the restaurant need to make sure that
each new employees did understood the policy and all the change that is been
made.
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7. List at least four areas that the diversity policy covers and describe how the policy
is implemented in the organisation. You may wish to use a table similar to the
following.
Diversity policy Implementation
area
Sex discrimination Is implemented on the hiring process and job
promotion girl and male are treated equally,
Racial Race policy is implemented during the hiring
discrimination process, the organization gives equal chances to
be hired to every race. To organization promote
fair treatment between colleagues
Language The language barrier, in the organization, when
a new employee joins the team the supervisor
explain the job with a visual explanation and
ensure that is been understood
Age discrimination The organization doesn't advertise a new
position with age description and disapproves of
harassing or bullying younger or older team
members.
8. Design a presentation to give to staff to explain the policy and confirm

understanding. Make sure you involve a range of communication methods to cater
for differences in learning style.
The presentation is being held on a meeting day where the new staff member will
give a walkthrough of the policy. All the other staff members will attend to
understand the new changes in the policy.
During the presentation, the staff member will receive a written form with images
to be clearer.
After the presentation we allowed a short period of time for the information to be
read and understood, follow up with a Q&A session if the staff member needs some
clarifications.
Please find attached the presentation in PowerPoint named “Diversity in workplace

By Foodaety”
9. List at least three instances where you might improve the policy. Provide an
example for each.
Age Discrimination. Advertise for a job in our organization I will suggest to improve
it on the descriptions, instead of using words like “young,” “energetic,” “fresh-
minded” we can consider using words like “motivated,” “driven” or “dedicated”.
Language discrimination. My suggestion is to vary the team formations, so mix up
the team time to time, to make sure that the language spoken is English and not
just from one nationality.
Racial discrimination. I suggest organising a building team day. hold regular team-
building sessions that focus on employees getting to know each other, creating a
positive work environment.
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Element 2
Part A
1. Using dot-points, list at least five responsibilities that might be included in a
manager’s role in fostering respect for diversity in the workplace.
● Encouraging team discussions and helping individuals to understand each other.
● Investigating complaints between team members.
● Team training.
● Team building activity.
● Reviewing the organisation's workplace, policies and procedures.
2. Explain why it is crucial for a manager to address their own prejudices about
people who are different to themselves. List three strategies they can follow to
address any prejudices they have.
To avoid making an automatic assumption about a team member or a candidate,
the manager will need:
1.Take time to get to know an individual before forming an objective opinion about
them.
2.Listening to others and encouraging freedom of speech, opinions, questions and
ideas
from colleagues and employees
3.Allowing employees who do not have English as a first language to take time
when they speak and when needing to understand work instructions.
3. List at least five reasons you can give to staff to explain the value of working
effectively with differences.
● Work experience can increase other staff knowledge.
● Can create new ideas and increase creativity through a variety of viewpoints and
experiences.
● Life experience can open new points of view throughout team members.
● Different backgrounds can teach new skills to team members.
● Employees coming from another country will increase cultural awareness.
4. Complete a table similar to the following to show why a team member may need
additional training in diversity and how to address the training need.
Area Reason for training Strategies to

address the
training need
Culturally-specific understanding Attending a training
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training differences within course at another
people organisation to
understand how
another organization
works.
Diversity training Assertive behaviours Workshops to
may arise in the team encourage employees
to work together in
practical diversity
activities
Equal opportunity To address any Organise a team-
training imbalance between building activity to
team members provide an
opportunity for
employees to learn
and change their
thinking;
Grievance Handling workplace Organise a seminar
management training disputes and and a team training
conflicts, recognising with online support
workplace bullying for a better learning
procedure
Part B
Read the scenario, then complete the task that follows.
Scenario
You have been asked to recruit three staff for a new branch of your
organisation. You work for a local government department formed to
provide support for a range of community groups, including groups that
support people from specific cultures, older people, people with disabilities
and youth.
The ability to speak community languages and work with people of diverse
backgrounds are essential criteria for these positions.
The current staff profile of the council is not representative of the local
community, which has a high percentage of people born overseas. Your
job is to ensure there is greater diversity within the organisation by
recruiting staff with diverse backgrounds.
As the first step, you are asked to write the process you will use for
recruitment and selection.
Prepare a one-page document (using dot-points) to outline the strategies

you will use to manage this process.
The strategy for recruiting the right staff with diverse backgrounds will be divided into
three parts, staff recruitment, staff selection process and interview.
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The recruitment process is where the council will advertise the availability of the
positions. The job description will promote diversity to encourage diversity at work. To
make sure multiple group members will see the advertise the council will advertise
through:
● Local radio stations
● Local library and community centre
● Agencies that promote diversity in recruitment
● Local newspapers
● Education establishments and universities
Staff selection is the time to select our candidates where the council will ensure to
make decisions on equal opportunities and fairness.
Diverse groups include:
● Young/newly qualified individuals
● Older aged individuals
● People with disabilities
● Cultural and ethnic minority groups
● Different religious groups
● Lesbian, gay bisexuals and transgender individuals.
Interviewing candidates.
Once we select our candidates we need to arrange the intertwining stage, the
structure of the interview and every question asked will be inclusive and non-
discriminatory.
The candidates need to include:
● If they feel comfortable in their role/position.
● Are they feel comfortable answering a question that I am going to ask?
● Whether the discussions and questions are appropriate for/related to the job
role.
To make sure:
● To assess the candidate’s abilities and experience in equal value
● If the candidate has personal responsibility or prior commitments to fulfil, these
should not be seen as a negative.
● Talking with and getting to understand the individual will help you to determine
if they are appropriate for the position you have on offer.
Part C
Prepare the following material to add to the portfolio you began in Assessment activity
1.
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1. Prepare a poster or leaflet that provides tips for staff members to help them show
respect for diversity in work teams and lessen the risk of tension developing. It
should be suitable to display in the workplace or give to new staff members. Use
photographs, images and other graphics to emphasise your points.
2. Prepare a list of frequently asked questions with answers to help staff understand
harassment and how the organisation manages complaints and allegations of
harassment. For example, you may include questions such as:
● What is harassment?
● Is it illegal for someone to harass me at work?
● What do I do if I want to make a complaint about harassment?
Please find attached the 2 flyers named “Flyer1” and “Flyer2” Questions are answered
in the end of the “flyer2”
Element 3
Part A
1. What benefits might an organisation receive from promoting the diversity of
its workforce?
Promoting diversity will improve the image of our organization. When
promoted diversity externally will attract a more diverse customer and will
show that your organisation is using ethical practices and is supportive of
community and business needs.
When promoting diversity internally our teams will perform better, and
come up with better innovative ideas.
2. Select an internal forum for promoting workforce diversity and explain the
ways the strategy enhances the company’s image and reputation.
An internal forum can be a staff mentoring or sponsorship programs, this will
allow the individual to feel part of the organization and show that the
organization cares about the individual. This practice will influence the
people's image of the organization and will held to attract better talented
people.
3. An organisation may have a diverse workforce, but may not take advantage
of its diversity to enhance its products and services and increase its
competitive advantage. Complete a table similar to the following:
● In the first column, list three ways an organisation could capture ideas
from its staff.
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● In the second column, list the information it may receive from different
groups (such as women, older staff, those from another country). An
example has been provided.
Strategies for Ideas and information generated
capturing ideas
At an induction New staff member who speaks Chinese
session volunteers to translate information
about products and services on the
organisation’s website into Chinese.
This is intended to help customers in
the local community and promote the
organisation to Chinese markets.
Brainstorming session Meeting where new members and old
members can brainstorm on new ways
of working, in doing so new members
can bring diverse strategies, viewpoints
and innovative ways of working based
on previous experience.
Workshop online The younger generation in our
activity workforce can help to interact with our
customers online. This can help to
create a tactic that involves and
engage the younger customers.
Cultural Seminar A new team joins the organization and
can hold a seminar of ethnic and
cultural behaviour. In this seminar, the
team can explain their culture to other
teams. In this way the other team will
have a better understanding of their
culture and to open a new customer
market target to their cultural needs
and habits.
Part B
Use the organisation you work for or research an organisation to carry out the
following tasks.
1. Plan a 15-minute presentation that promotes the organisation’s workforce
diversity. Add the presentation plan to your portfolio. The presentation
should include:
● a description/profile of the organisation’s diverse workforce
● strategies/forums the organisation uses to promote diversity
● benefits the organisation has gained from its diverse workforce
● methods the organisation uses to capture ideas from staff
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● Recent ideas staff members have suggested that stem from their
experience and background (include the images and other material to
support the presentation).
PRESENTATION
Foodeaty workforce diversity
Foodeaty`s staff member is made up of the followings:

- Total employees 15
- 70 per cent were born overseas.
- 50 per cent are woman
- 50 per cent are man
- 75 per cent are under 50 years old
- 40 per cent are under 35 years old
In the organisation, we have a diversity program where we are focused to
create a great working environment to host multiple diversity workforce to
attract global talent.
To accommodate diversity in our workforce we need to create and establish
a comfortable environment that can host and accept diversity.
Diversity can cause some friction along the way, people are not ready to
work with someone different until the worker will understand the other
teammate. In our diversity program, we are focused on hiring a diverse
workforce but especially focus on promoting inside our organization.
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Strategies to promote diversity

To promote diversity Foodeaty has some internal and external strategy on
our program.
Workshop on straight and weaknesses.

We create this workshop where our employees can understand more about
themselves and the other teammates, with the goal of discovering what
they are best at and what they can bring to the table to the team and the
company.
In this workshop, we ask to conduct a self-assessment where workers can

answer questions such as: “What can I do to improve and work seamlessly
with people that are different from me?, how other workers will feel from my
actions?”.
We do also a self-analysis where workers are discovering weaknesses and be
more focus on their strengths, in this way workers can help others and be
helped more easily. This allowed our organization to spread out strengths
and weaknesses in the various teams so that their effects are maximized
and minimized respectively.
Brainstorming activity.
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For sure someday an issue or a
problem in our work will come
out, a good activity that we do
is the brainstorming day.
On this day we gather our
workforce in the meeting, we
ask to listen, discuss, help and
be open to new perspectives.
Our workforce has people from
different cultures and
backgrounds when discussing
and brainstorming we see a
different approach to business
issues.
Some of the workforces are able to offer valuable insight gained through a
wealth of diverse life experiences.
Diversity training
Treat others how they want to be
treated.
This is the initial training where we
present the diversity policy of the
organization.
We give to our worker a brochure
with the highlight point of the
training and we explain throughout a
slight show the diverse cultural, the
behaviour, encountering and surpassing problem or any friction that can
occur during working hours.
Hiring process.
We have a process when we are hiring. In this process, we are making sure
that we don’t create any obstacles or disadvantages for qualified candidates
due to their membership in a protected class or minority group.
To potential candidates, we communicate the company internal diversity
and inclusion culture. We are specific since the beginning, it’s crucial that
candidates understand our company’s stance on diversity.
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What diversity and inclusion

brought to us.
When in our organization we
implement diversity we
could see an impact on
financial performance. Over
time with all the activities,
meetings and seminars that
we have done, we could see
our employees happier to
feel included which
contributes to the morale of
our organization.
Foodeaty company morale influences the confidence, enthusiasm and

loyalty that employees have in their jobs. Essentially, it reflects the mental
and emotional condition of the workplace and employees’ beliefs in the
organization and our goals.
With our workers motivated and with better morale leads to better
productivity.
Other meetings and activities are being held during the year, this depends
on the new goals of the organization, to introduce new staff members to our
organization and if any problems arise that need to be addressed.
Organization activity
Brainstorming day
To promote inclusion in our team we organize a meeting where we are going
through solving any issue and new members and old members can
brainstorm on new ways of jobs can be done or work procedures. In doing so
new members can bring diverse strategies to the table, viewpoints and
innovative ways of working based on previous experience.
Cultural Seminar
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Sometime during the year, we

organize a seminar to introduce
the ethnic differentiation of our
staff which teams are doing
activity and presentation of their
culture. In this way, every team
would have a greater
understanding of different
cultures in the organization and
work out a way to open up their
cultural preferences and habits
to a new consumer demand
goal.
In one of the last meeting

activities, some of the
new workforces had come out with some great ideas. During a
brainstorming meeting, we discussed how to advertise online using the
latest marketing technique to our organization.
At the end of the meeting, we create a new team focused on creating a new
way to interact with a younger audience using social media.
The team is composed of older workers that know exactly what our
organization stands for, they will help the new teammate as guidance
through the advertising, to make sure the organization goal and morale are
addressed correctly.
The new teammates are working on the social media part which they have
more experience than others on social media platforms. The diversity of this
team brought a great result to our organisation in terms of acquiring new
clients and creating an online presence, necessary to grow as a brand.
2. Draft an article for your organisation’s website that promotes the

organisation’s workforce diversity.
Work diversity blog

By
Alessandro Bordignon
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Introduction
We are Foodeaty an organization based in Sydney, and we were able to develop and
implement a diversity management strategy to attract and retain the best global
talent. But what is the best practice to do so?
People sometimes are scared of diversity because diversity strategies are difficult to
implement, is a bit the unknown, is this strategy going to work? Is it the organization
to grow?
Why Diversity?
Factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, cultural context, etc. are the first things that
people generally think about, but there is much more to creating a diverse workplace
than recruiting people who fall into various age ranges or creating the ideal male to
female ratio.
Everyone is their own person and can bring various things to the table, which is why
diversity within a team is so crucial.
Innovation
It will help to promote innovation and provide a variety of experiences and new ideas
by recruiting people with different personalities and at various stages of their career.
Today’s organizations increasingly recognize that the greatest insights and innovations
come not from teams of like-minded individuals, but from teams with a wide range of
diverse viewpoints and perspectives.
Performance
In an environment where inclusivity and diversity is a priority, workers are more likely
to feel comfortable and satisfied.
Equality in the workplace is important for encouraging workers from all backgrounds to
feel confident in their ability and achieve their best. The higher the team morale, the
more productive employees are.
Language skills can new markets
Language barriers and cultural differences can also serve as a bit of an obstacle for a
company that wishes to extend its business across shores; however, it can make it
possible for a company to operate on a global basis and connect with a larger
consumer base by recruiting workers who speak different languages. It can also help
to make it more meaningful by representing a variety of nationalities within your
business.
conclusion
The diversity and inclusion in the workplace must be carefully managed for the results
to be successful. It may be an evolutionary process that challenges everyone, but it is
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also an initiative that can help a company and its teams thrive today, tomorrow, and
well into the future.
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Project Work
Part A
Read the scenario, then answer the questions that follow. Note: West Coast Finance Support’s
diversity policy is the same as that outlined in Chapter 1, section 1A of this learner guide.
Scenario
You work as the HR manager at West Coast Finance Support, a large private
company in the financial services sector that employs over 100 staff. Expansion
has been rapid over the last 12 months, and 25 new staff are to be recruited. The
CEO directs managers to ensure there is diversity of staff when they recruit for
their team in line with the organisation’s diversity policy, and asks them to
consider the benefits of having a range of different abilities, ages, genders and
backgrounds.
Reviewing the process following recruitment, you note that one department,
managed by Bob, a mature-aged male, is made up of only males who are over 40
years old.
You talk to Bob about the profile of his staff and he defends his choices by saying
that it takes years to develop the sort of skills required to do the work that his
department does. He says that he did not get many applications from women as
they don’t tend to like that sort of work.
Later, Sally, a colleague, tells you that she heard Bob talking about a rival
organisation who has hired a number of staff to reflect their local community. He
was heard saying, ‘By the way they dress and speak, these people are obviously
Muslim. I wouldn’t employ them in a fit’.
1. Which aspects of the diversity policy should the managers at West Coast Finance Support
consider when hiring staff?
Manager should be considered when hiring staff are:
- Job descriptions being inclusive, make the job description more welcoming and
comprehensive.
- Need to make sure to advertise in multiple places, for instance advertising in
community newspapers or newspaper in different language.
- Interview questions need to be inclusive and consistence to ensure everybody has the
same opportunity.
- To select the candidates, rating system can be used to have an objective view of the
candidate
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- When interviewing manager need to check if there is a communication style or
language barrier.
1. List four benefits of having a diverse staff that the CEO may have explained to managers.
The CEO may have explained multiple benefits to their managers:
• Better business performance and productivity from employees
• More creative and innovative thinking among staff
• Work environment will improv and staff health and wellbeing
• Fast problem solving and better decision making
2. What would you do about the conversation where Sally overheard Bob making derogatory
remarks about the rival organisation’s Muslim staff?
Racial commenting is a breach of the laws Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and can cause a
bad reputation for the company, so I will have a meeting with Bob where I will explain the
company policy in more details. Furthermore, I will organize a workshop on the diversity
benefits.
3. You decide to confront Bob about the lack of diversity in his staff. What information would
you gather as evidence of the success that comes from diversity before taking up the
matter with him?
I will gather information from other departments to show him the results achieved from
diversity. On the information gathered I will make sure to highlight the better decision
making, how faster other department solved problem and how diversity increased their
profits.
I will show to Bod how diversity promote engagement and create a better company
reputation.
4. A member from Bob’s team is planning to retire. Bob shows you a list of applicants he
thinks should be interviewed for the position. Again, there are no women or younger
people. Are Bob’s actions illegal? Could an applicant bring a complaint against the
company?
Bob`s actions are not illegal but are against the company policy and directions, this way
the company can receive complaint from the applicants.
Part B
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Complete the following tasks to demonstrate your ability to manage diversity.
1. Prepare a one-page survey for team members to complete that identifies what they
understand about diversity and how it is managed in their workplace. Make sure
you adapt the survey for your audience so they clearly understand it and what they
are required to do.
Answer the following survey on diversity and inclusion place a cross over the number you
feel more appropriate for your answer, where the number 1 is Strongly Disagree to the
number 5 for strongly agree.
Employees who are different from most others are treated 1 2 3 4 5

fairly within our organisation.
If I had a concern about harassment or discrimination, I 1 2 3 4 5
know where and how to report that concern.
I feel included and respected within the organisation 1 2 3 4 5
Racial, ethnic, and gender-based jokes are not tolerated at 1 2 3 4 5
Foodaety.
Our organisation provides an environment for the free and 1 2 3 4 5
open expression of ideas, opinions and beliefs
There is cultural diversity among the people a job candidate 1 2 3 4 5
will meet/see on his/her first visit to our organisation
Within our organisation, everyone has access to equal 1 2 3 4 5
employment opportunities regardless of their difference.
The organisation has done a good job providing training 1 2 3 4 5
programs that promote diversity and inclusion.
At Foodaety, I can be successful as my authentic self. 1 2 3 4 5
I feel like my colleagues understand who I really am. 1 2 3 4 5
Employees of different backgrounds are encouraged to apply 1 2 3 4 5
for higher positions.
5. Prepare a one-page, dot-point plan for promoting the diversity policy both in your
workplace and to the wider community. Include at least three strategies you will use.
In addition, prepare and submit material to support your plan, such as slides for an
electronic presentation, examples of a newsletter article, an example of how the
organisation uses its diversity or guest speakers they may use.
Diversity policy plan:
 Introduction
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 What is diversity
 Why diversity in business?
 Legislative framework
o Age Discrimination Act 2004
o Disability Discrimination Act 1992
o Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986
o Work Health & Safety Act 2011
o Racial Discrimination Act 1975
o Sex Discrimination Act 1984
o Workplace Relations Act 1996
 RESPECT in workplace
 Workplace Diversity Program Strategies
o Strategy 1
o Strategy 2
o Strategy 3
 Avoid making assumptions
o Prejudice
o Stereotype
o Explicit Bias
o Implicit Bias
 Workplace success program
o Individual responsibility
o Supervisor/manager responsibility
o Organisation responsibility
 Conclusion
Please find attached the PowerPoint presentation named “Diversity policy plane
presentation”
6. Conduct a meeting to discuss the legislation underpinning diversity and the value of
diversity to the organisation, including a brainstorming session to identify:
 where the diversity policy could be improved
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In conclusion we found Age diversity can be improve to our diversity strategy. Age
diversity related measurable objectives of engaged employees for Foodaety
organisation, will be set and reviewed on an annual basis by the Foodaety committee
team.
 how the current diversity in the workplace can enhance the products and
services
The current diversity strategy we promote employees engagement and it can trickle
down into many important areas of a company, especially those in customer service
teams, and our products.
Also, with our current diversity we attract more divers talent
 how individuals can value and contribute to diversity, including looking at their
own prejudices.
To our employees we need to make sure they know the diversity goals and vision of
Foodaety and its connection to the overall business objectives.
Our employee needs to participate and engage with our surveys and respond as openly
and honestly as possible. We need to make sure they have an internal employee that
they can comfortably express concerns.
Our employees need to overcome their own prejudices by treat people in a way they
wish to be treated rather than the way you wish to be treated. Employees need to
understand that common social activities and practices that are comfortable for some
may not be comfortable for everyone.
We need to make sure that no one tell offensive jokes that may alienate those who are
different from them.
7. Submit the meeting plan, including any resources used such as photographs,
electronic slides or handouts and a review of the meeting.
GOAL OBJECTIVE ACTIONS WHO BY WHEN MEASURING

SUCCESS
Workforce Recruit from a 1. Advertise roles in Human Quarte 1 Increase in the

diversity diverse, a broad range of resources representation
qualified group publications Managers of diverse
of candidates to 2. Ensure a diverse employees
increase range of candidates
diversity of are represented at
thinking and shortlist stage
perspective
Workplace Foster a culture 1. Provide inclusive HR Quarter 4 All managers

inclusion that encourages leadership training participate in
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collaboration, for managers Owner inclusive
flexibility and 2. Establish leadership
fairness to employee advocacy training Three
enable all groups employee
employees to advocacy
contribute to groups are
their potential established
and increase
retention
Meeting decision
All employees have the responsibility to maintain an environment that is safe, respectful
and productive. Everyone has the right to be treated fairly within the workplace in an
environment that recognises and accepts diversity. We can all contribute by participating
in workplace diversity and inclusion activities and opportunities and complying with all
anti-discrimination and workplace diversity legislation. Managers and supervisors can
contribute by displaying a positive commitment to workplace diversity and inclusion,
being role models, fostering an inclusive workplace culture, dealing quickly and effectively
with inappropriate behaviour and participating in diversity training and encouraging team
members to attend.
8. A staff member makes a complaint to you that they are being harassed because of
their ethnicity. How would you manage this?
First of all, I will discuss the matter with the supervisor and the human resources manager
to determine how serious is the situation, then I will have a meeting with the employee
that is been harassed to understand more about the event.
A meeting with the harasser employee will be held where with the help of HR team will
explain our policy once again. The harasser employee will be advised to curb the use of
language in the workplace that has previously caused co-worker complaints. In the
meeting we also explain that these actions can have trouble in the future, involving lawsuit.
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Portfolio of Foodeaty Pty Ltd.

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2. Write your response to the following requirements:

b. Why is it a good idea to have a diverse workforce?

3. Explain in one paragraph why an organisation should have a diversity policy.

5. How can the incident be used to improve the policy?

8. Design a presentation to give to staff to explain the policy and confirm

Please find attached the presentation in PowerPoint named “Diversity in workplace

Area Reason for training Strategies to

Prepare a one-page document (using dot-points) to outline the strategies

Foodeaty workforce diversity

Foodeaty`s staff member is made up of the followings:

Strategies to promote diversity

Workshop on straight and weaknesses.

In this workshop, we ask to conduct a self-assessment where workers can

What diversity and inclusion

Foodeaty company morale influences the confidence, enthusiasm and

Sometime during the year, we

In one of the last meeting

2. Draft an article for your organisation’s website that promotes the

Work diversity blog

Employees who are different from most others are treated 1 2 3 4 5

 where the diversity policy could be improved

GOAL OBJECTIVE ACTIONS WHO BY WHEN MEASURING

Workforce Recruit from a 1. Advertise roles in Human Quarte 1 Increase in the

Workplace Foster a culture 1. Provide inclusive HR Quarter 4 All managers

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