Transcript Monitoring Sexual Orientation: An Introduction

Workplace Equality Index
2010
Alex Van Vliet
Associate, Stonewall GB
The Index
• Detailed assessment framework for LGBinclusive workplace culture
• To measure and track progress
implementing gay-friendly policies
• Publish Britain’s Top 100 employers for
LGB people
• Diversity Champions receive tailored, indepth feedback & action planning
Criteria & weighting
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Policy and Practice 25%
Staff Engagement 17%
Staff Development and Support 16%
Monitoring 15%
Supplier Policies 5%
Community Engagement 10%
Pink Plateau 6%
Additional Information 6%
Employee Satisfaction Survey
Participation
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136
100
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Participation
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Top 100
• 19 sectors represented
• 23 new employers in the Top 100 – including 16
new entries and 7 re-entries.
• IBM – Overall Winner
• Hampshire Constabulary – Top Public Sector
Employer
• Nottinghamshire NHS Healthcare – Most
Improved
• Scottish Government – Top Scottish Employer
Scores 2010
All entries
53%
Scottish
entries
45%
Welsh entries
57%
English
entries
54%
Top 100
72%
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Average score (%)
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Top 100
What do you need to have in place
to be a Stonewall Top 100
Employer?
Policy and Practice
• 100% have a strategy linking LGB equality
to wider organisational aims
• 90% have a senior champion at board
level
• Every employer has an inclusive bullying &
harassment policy - 79% give examples of
anti-gay bullying
• An area of strength for Scotland – an
average score of 70% in this section
Network Groups
• For the first year, every employer in the
top 100 has an Employee Network Group
• 96% advise on employment policy
• Only one in eight Scottish entries have an
active Network Group
Staff development & support
• Every employer in the Top 100 offers
diversity training that includes lesbian, gay
and bisexual issues,
• Just under half have ensured that over
90% of staff have received this training.
• Scottish employers very unlikely to offer
tailored career development to LGB staff
Monitoring
• Every organisation Top 100 collects
monitoring data on the sexual orientation
of their employees
• 55% monitor throughout the employment
cycle, 86% as part of a staff attitude
survey.
• Every Scottish employer in the WEI
monitor sexual orientation.
Community Engagement
• 82% of the top 100 recruit or advertise
products and services in the LGB media,
up from 78% in 2009.
• 72% undertake strategic work with LGB
customers or services users.
• Half of Scottish employers in the WEI
participate in LGB community events.
Pink Plateau
• 99% of the Top 100 have an openly gay
member of staff in their top three tiers
• Only 36% at each of top three tiers
• 94% of the Top 100 have an openly gay
employee who acts as a role model within
their organisation.
• Sixty per cent of Scottish entries have no
openly gay employees in the top three
tiers.
Top 100: Challenges
• Line managers – 3% scored full points in
Top 100
• Career Development – 4% scored full
points
• Supplier Policy – 9% scored full points
How to Stand Out
Emerging good practice includes:
• Recognising the L, G & B
• Working in other fields – e.g. Inter
organisational networking, Education
• Work with customers/service users
• Straight Allies
Where now?
• Launch of WEI 2011 Results - January
2011
• Diversity Champions Seminar Programme
• Revised Index criteria for 2012 and
beyond – watch this space
Peter Havelock
Partner, Insurance
IBM Global Business Services