You are an HR manager working in a busy training department in a local government office. The department has a well-established managing diversity policy. Within that policy it is explicit that discrimination against certain groups within the workforce based upon any differences will not be tolerated. Your training department provides regular courses for line managers about areas such as recruitment, selection, assessment and appraisal.

As part of these courses there is a focus upon the country’s employment legislation. These parts of the courses focus upon providing advice to managers about how to avoid inadvertently discriminating against staff as part of their general employment processes.

Recently, it has been suggested that there may be a need for diversity training in your organization. Your manager has asked you to put together a one-day training event about managing diversity that is aimed at middle managers. She has also asked that you make some suggestions about how the impact of the diversity training can be evaluated.

Task
1 Provide an overview of the schedule for the days training session.
2 What is the aim of each of the sessions you have scheduled?
3 What kind of material will be included in each of the sessions?
4 What difficulties do you anticipate with the training you have suggested?
5 How will the impact of the training be evaluated?