Diversity and Discrimination for Supervisors

Course Length: 60 minutes

This program is an informative and interactive course designed to help your supervisors learn or refresh their knowledge on the difficult, yet important, issue of diversity and discrimination in the workplace. Supervisors must understand discrimination laws and actively promote diversity if they want employees to be respectful of one another, and to maximize their potential.

OVERVIEW:

• Aimed at supervisors in a variety of workplace environments.
• Covers the following topics:
• What diversity means
• Benefits and challenges of a diverse workforce
• How discrimination happens
• What circumstances can lead to a charge of discrimination
• Who is covered by "protected classes"
• Other types of discrimination

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define diversity, inclusion, discrimination, adverse action and protected class.
• Describe benefits and challenges of having a diverse workplace.
• Identify the two main types of discrimination.
• Identify the organization that enforces most anti-discrimination laws.
• Explain how anti-discrimination laws apply.
• Explain how claims of discrimination are investigated.
• Explain how retaliation can occur.
• Explain how the EEOC and states enforce anti-discrimination laws.
• Identify the EEOC's protected classes.
• Identify other types of discrimination that are not enforced by the EEOC.