The Equal Opportunities Handbook

The Equal Opportunities Handbook is a guide to indentifying and eradicating workplace discrimination through training and guidance. The revised edition of this popular text has been updated to reflect changes in legislation and policy. This up-to-the-minute guide sets out straightforward procedures, relevant to all types of situation, and demonstrates how simple it is to behave with fairness, courtesy and sensitivity to all. Practical and realistic, this book will: • help readers to check their own behaviour and attitudes • provide guidance on fair treatment • give valuable information on the most important issues in equal opportunities The book includes personal action plans at the end of every chapter to aid learning and development, as well as a current A-Z of laws and agencies promoting equal opportunities.

This equal opportunities handbook is updated to take account of developments in policy and attitudes since the publication of the second edition. It sets out straightforward principles, relevant to all types of situation, that demonstrate how simple it is to behave with fairness, courtesy and sensitivity to all - regardless of colour, gender, sexuality, disability or religious beliefs. Designed to be practical, realistic and usable in the real world, the book seeks to: help readers to check their own behaviour and attitudes; provide guidance on fair treatment; and give information on the most important issues in equal opportunities. It also includes an A to Z of laws and agencies promoting equal opportunities.

Covering the issues of race, gender and disability, this practical guide to equal opportunities meets the requirements of all CACHE, BTEC and City and Guilds courses.

This reference guide to all aspects of the law relating to equal opportunities and discrimination provides accessible and straightforward advice to help practitioners with the day-to-day problems encountered when dealing with this complex area of law and covers the full range of equal opportunity issues from gender re-assignment to paternity leave. Highly practical and using concise and non-technical language this new edition covers developments in the legislation including that on race discrimination now extended to public bodies and the new maternity pay proposals. The work includes case law and material on institutional discrimination, cronyism, nepotism, term-time working, career breaks, job shares, dress codes, medical evidence, bullying, estoppel, work/life balance and the European charter on fundamental human rights. The A-Z format uses checklists to offer practical guidance and this second edition includes new checklists on career break schemes and job share schemes.

The authors discuss equal opportunities legislation, policy & practice in Britain, & offer up-to-the-minute advice. This fully revised second edition covers the latest changes in attitudes & to the law. Includes an up-to-date A-Z listing of U.K. laws & agencies promoting equal opportunities.

Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination. Dobbin shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel. He traces how the first measures were adopted by military contractors worried that the Kennedy administration would cancel their contracts if they didn't take "affirmative action" to end discrimination. These measures built on existing personnel programs, many designed to prevent bias against unionists. Dobbin follows the changes in the law as personnel experts invented one wave after another of equal opportunity programs. He examines how corporate personnel formalized hiring and promotion practices in the 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s they answered Ronald Reagan's threat to end affirmative action by recasting their efforts as diversity-management programs; and how the growing presence of women in the newly named human resources profession has contributed to a focus on sexual harassment and work/life issues. Inventing Equal Opportunity reveals how the personnel profession devised--and ultimately transformed--our understanding of discrimination.