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Address all forms of discrimination to create a culture that supports your policy

Address all forms of discrimination to create a culture that supports your policy

From the course: Preventing Harassment in the Workplace

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Address all forms of discrimination to create a culture that supports your policy

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- You may already know this, but sexual harassment is actually, technically, a form of discrimination. Discrimination refers to treating a group of people less favorably because they are in that group, including age, gender, sex, nationality, and others. So if you're focused on preventing harassment, you have to take a step back and look at whether discrimination is going on under your nose. One way to do that is through an audit. If you're in HR, take a look at all of your HR functions and audit them for discrepancies. Your audit should look at whether you're paying men and women the same for the same job, recruiting and hiring a diverse group of candidates and men and women make up equal parts of your leadership and management. Of course, you might also audit your investigation procedures when a complaint is filed to ensure investigators receive consistent training, files are maintained properly, and roles and reporting…

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