Measuring where your organisation is at the moment

The diversity management model identifies a series of toolkits which can be used to assess where your organisation is as a barometer of diversity.

The organisation needs to examine its current culture and practice before deciding how to proceed. Do you have a diversity champion on the board or in senior management? Who monitors diversity and equal opportunities presently? How do you know about the composition of your workforce, your suppliers and your customers? Are there diversity issues arising already that confront the management teams?

Employers Toolkit

These tookits, as shown below, have been reviewed as part of the Create project and are considered quality products that can assist in the identification of key issues in addressing diversity.

• Housing Corporation tool kit to assess the diversity of your organisation
• Audit Commission tool kit to assess the diversity of your organisation
• Home office How to assess the diversity excellence of your organisation
• Race for opportunity diversity model
• Equality in Employment Toolkit

Statistics

All organisations need base statistics and a lot of the work will involve the organisation collecting data about itself. However, for comparison purposes below are links to national statistical databases.

• Office of National Statistics & Labour Force Surveys data on ethnicity & religion.
• Analysis of Census 1991 and 2001
• Ethnic Minority Labour Penalties
• Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs
• The Changing Face of Britain
• Workforce profile 2006

Another useful toolkit links to statistics sites to be incorporate