Elephant in the room an equality and diversity training manual

Equality and diversity Search this Guide Search. Care Certificate Library resources and services to support those undertaking the Care Certificate. Home 1. Understanding your role 2. Your personal development 3. Duty of care 4. Equality and diversity 5. Work in a person-centred way 6. Communication 7.

Privacy and dignity 8. Fluids and nutrition 9. How is this possible with all the equal opportunity recruitment policies, the explicit procedures , the monitoring arrangements and a vigilant HR? A senior manager is often in a position to influence recruitment, secondment, training and promotion opportunities.

For example if they chair a working group to transform a service. The group recommendations include creating some new first line management posts. The senior manager gets word that an ambitious black member of staff intends to apply for one of these posts.

A racist managers mission is to stop such people getting management posts in the organisation. If they are on the interview panel they can simply turn this person down at interview but there is a chance that the decision will be scrutinised and the candidate may very well give a good interview making it hard to justify not appointing. An elephant in the room gives managers, trainers and personnel staff the material to raise the profile of equality and diversity in their organisation. Taken as a whole the manual can help: change the way people think and behave at work; enable managers to be better people managers; enable the organisation to realise the full benefits of a diverse workforce; increase the awareness and sensitivity of staff towards their colleagues and their customers; and create equality and diversity champions.

The manual recognises the importance of developing leadership from the top, of creating a safe environment for people to challenge and be challenged, and of creating champions to keep equality and diversity high on the organisation's agenda. The approach taken to equality and diversity training has been found to be very effective in engaging staff at all levels because it allows people to relate to their own experience and to issues they come across in their workplace.