C/HR/185. Managing Diversity in the workplace

This paper discusses all forms of discrimination that arte present in the UK workforce and the legislation that has been introduces to eradicate the work environment of this. The legislation includes discrimination on the grounds of gender, sex, religion, race age and disability. Therefore is would be forgiven to assume, discrimination no longer exists in the UK. This is not the case; organisations are struggling to balance a diverse work force with legislation. The changing nature of the UK workforce has introduced diversity as a key topic and the management of human resource, and has opened up new risk areas for organisations that do not comply. Direct discrimination can easily be identified, but it is indirect discrimination that can cause more problems. The very nature of indirect discrimination is varied, it takes place where there are policies, procedures and employment rules that are applied to all employees but can discriminate on certain people.