Description
(Solution) CIPS APGLM Equality and Diversity Policies in Modern Organisation
Solution
In procurement and supply, equality is a trend where individuals are treated in fairness with zero discrimination. This is while diversity workforce being inclusive of people of both gender, ages, racial orientation and more such as in the society, customer groups and labour force. For HWE case, they adopt a strict equality and diversity policy (HWE, 2021). Their practice is informed by ACAS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy shown below;
Figure 14:Contents of HWE Equality and Diversity Policy in place
Source: Summarised from ACAS (2023)
For organisations embracing cultural-based diversity, they gain a lot of benefits apart from only the profits and dominating the sector where they operate. Conversely, being sensitive on the culture, obtained insights and localised knowledge imply existence of immense equality.
Further, HWE culture diversity imply being sufficient in proactiveness of improved suppliers diversity levels. Majority of HWE suppliers operate in UK informed by the categories of products and services procured by HWE. Further, to manage their conflicting supply teams, they have not introduced good discrimination tribunal but their option is to formalised strategies.
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