Diversity and inclusion

New and updated

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Advancing gender equality in the workplace: Why is gender equality important?

  Updated with the latest gender pay gap figures, as reported in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2024.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Onboarding: Workplace orientation - line manager checklist

  A model form to help new employees, especially those with a neurodivergent condition, to learn the rules and customs of the workplace.

• Date:

  26 October 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Five ways to make your employee networks more effective

  Employee networks are valuable platforms for fostering inclusion, amplifying diverse voices and driving positive change within organisations. Inclusion consultant Gareth Buchanan explores five key ways to make your employee networks more effective.

• Date:

  13 October 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  What makes a great employee network?

  Employee networks, also known as employee-led diversity networks, employee resource groups (ERGs) and employee affinity groups, play a pivotal and increasingly prominent role in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the most diverse organisations. Inclusion consultant Gareth Buchanan explores the ingredients for making a really great one.

• Date:

  5 October 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Class inequalities in the workplace

  An active and practical approach to dismantling classist internal systems and challenging individual biases that persist in many workplaces can negate much of the damage caused by the experience of living in a classist society, says Georgie Williams.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an inclusive workplace for religion and belief: Definitions and the importance of good practice

  Enhanced with further information on religious diversity among different age groups and regions.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual employees: Inclusive employment

  Leading practice guide discussing the steps employers can take to engage and support LGB employees so that they feel able to bring their whole self to work.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual employees: Dealing with challenges

  Leading practice guide discussing the challenges LGB employees can experience at work and how employers can help to address and overcome them.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Equality impact assessment form

  A model form to conduct an equality impact assessment on a workplace policy, provision, criterion, practice or activity. The form uses the example of a regular review of an organisation's flexible working requests policy.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Using data to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce

  Leading practice guidance helping HR professionals understand how to use data to identify their organisation's challenges around DEI, and to improve DEI outcomes.