Employers and Supervisors

How can employers and supervisors address prejudice and demonstrate respect in the workplace?
Answer
 Be courteous, respectful, and kind to others.
 Encourage your teammates to share their thoughts and opinions. Before stating your position, take
the time to consider what others are saying. Never interrupt or speak over someone else. When you
need to concentrate on listening to the other person, stop forming arguments and responses in your
head and start listening.
 Utilize suggestions from others to alter or improve work. Inform staff members that you used their
suggestions, or push them to put them into action.
 Never degrade, use slurs, belittle, or insult others or their opinions.
 Don't berate, judge, degrade, or patronize a worker all the time. Bullying is a pattern of seemingly
insignificant behaviors that accumulate over time.

List 7 prohibited areas of discrimination that your company’s diversity policy should address?
Answer
i. Disability that includes past, present or future physical, intellectual or psychiatric disability.
ii. Marital status or family arrangements.
iii. Homosexuality (female or male, actual or presumed)
iv. Race, colour, ethnic or ethno-religious background, descent or nationality.
v. Religion, culture or language.
vi. Age (ensuring that people are not forced to retire at former retirement age)
vii. Carer’s responsibilities

If you find areas of the diversity policy which do not fully address the current anti-discrimination
legislation then you must address them. This may involve providing feedback to the relevant colleagues to
ensure the policy is updated, and also communicating the changes to management and staff?
 □ True
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False
How does multiculturalism impact on dress and grooming standards in a workplace?
Answer
i. This will make it possible for people to take advantage of and engage in pertinent activities
and programs that the state offers or manages.
ii. Different individuals have different ways of dressing officially to the workplace. The
management should hence decide on making a dress code that ensure that other people’s
rights have not been infringed.

What is diversity? How does a person’s disability impact their right to work and the legislative
requirements for employers?
Answer
Diversity employs a mixture of cultural variations of a population in the workplace or in an
institution.
People with temporary and permanent disabilities, physical, intellectual, sensory, neurological,
learning, and psychosocial difficulties, diseases or illnesses, physical disfigurement, medical
conditions, and work-related injuries are all covered by the Disability Discrimination Act.