Equality, Diversity, and Discrimination

11 Lessons

1 hour 32 mins

Complexity : Easy

Respect for Diversity: Understanding and valuing differences among individuals, promoting equal opportunities for everyone.

Recognizing Discrimination: Being aware of discriminatory behaviors and prejudices, addressing them to create inclusive environments.

Promoting Inclusivity: Encouraging open communication and celebrating differences to create inclusive communities.

Addressing Biases: Acknowledging and overcoming personal biases to make fairer decisions and promote diversity.

Fighting Racism: Equipping oneself with the tools to combat racism and promote diversity and equality in various settings.

Lessons

Equality, diversity, and discrimination
Easy
3 mins

Equality, diversity and discrimination have never been so essential to society but now it is very important. At this moment, there is no form of discrimination in the workplace.
Module 1: What is Equality & Diversity?
Easy
15 mins

In this course, we will discuss about equality and diversity and how they are interlinked with each other. This will assist us to identify, understand and address the issues of wrongness and discrimination in the workplace. We all heard about the words of equality and diversity before but are still valuable to start by defining exactly what they mean.
Module 2: Equality and Diversity Legislation
Easy
10 mins

It has four main objectives which updates and amends existing laws for England, Wales and Scotland. It creates a new single equality duty on public bodies which extends the scope for positive action with new provisions for positive discrimination.
Module 3: What do we mean by discrimination?
Easy
10 mins

We already know about the word discrimination and heard a lot about it. In this module, we are going to discuss six different types of discrimination including:
Module 4: Promoting diversity
Easy
6 mins

The actor makes special provisions to help promote diversity within society and organizations. This can include an element of positive discrimination obviously that has to be moderated in some way.
Module 5: Links between values, attitudes and beliefs
Easy
9 mins

The way we behave is governed by our values, attitudes and beliefs. Our values and beliefs are established in early childhood. We are all a product of our upbringing. The four key influences during childhood such as parents, teachers or peers and the media belong to any culture.
Module 6: Stereotypes, Prejudices and Discrimination
Easy
12 mins

Identifying prejudice and discrimination is not always simple because attitudes are often bound up in cultural norms. The ideas and customs we grew up with, we often think of them as just common sense.
Module 7: Institutional Discrimination
Easy
10 mins

For several years, the idea of institutional discrimination has been in existence. As the name indicates that institutional discrimination exists when a whole organization included rather than just an individual is operating in a discriminatory way with this discrimination.
Module 8: Valuing Others
Easy
5 mins

Valuing others is central to the whole issue of equality and diversity. We already defined equality in the previous modules “as the state of being equal particularly in status, rights or opportunities.
Module 9: Resistance to Feedback
Easy
5 mins

People may react to feedback in a number of different ways. They may deny what you're saying to them or they may try to justify their actions and explain away the fact that they didn't meet the standard.
Module 10: Course Summary
Easy
7 mins

We began the course by defining what we mean by the terms equality and diversity. We saw that equality is the state of being equal particularly in status rights or opportunities. Diversity is the state or quality of being different or varied.