Workplace Diversity Program - June 2003
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Foreword
The diversity of our staff is one of our greatest assets. Valuing the differences in every employee and drawing on the diversity of our backgrounds, skills, talents and views to enhance our working environment and the work of the department, is the basis of our Workplace Diversity Program.
This is the department’s second Workplace Diversity Program. It continues to reflect the department’s commitment to providing a fair and equitable working environment for all staff and embraces our collective responsibility to provide for a more effective, productive and innovative workforce.
Improvements to our program have included identifying individual and group responsibilities to foster a culture where diversity is valued and supported in the workplace, revised performance indicators to provide more meaningful and responsive data for evaluation purposes and a new format for the program to provide an easy to read document that focuses on key issues.
We are all responsible for the success of workplace diversity in the department. I encourage you to draw on your life skills and experiences and those of your staff, to enhance our working environment and the quality of decision making in the department.
I am a keen supporter of Workplace Diversity and I commend the program to you.
(Dr Peter Shergold)
4 June 2003
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