Diversity and inclusion training on confronting prejudices unconscious bias edu ppt

Slide 2

This slide provides an introduction to prejudices at the workplace. It also contains information regarding the significant prejudices in offices such as racism, sexism, ageism, classism, homophobia, nationalism, religion, and xenophobia.

Instructor’s Notes:

Examples of some prevalent prejudices at workplace are:

• Racism: Race is the social construct that groups individuals based on certain specific physical characteristics
  1. Immigrants from a certain country are loyal to their native country instead of their home nation
• Sexism: Certain gender’s honesty and emotions are used to undermine their claims about sexual assault and other forms of abuse
• Ageism: Both young and old employees are victims of this prejudice
  1. Young people are often prejudiced as uninformed, ignorant, or impulsive
  2. Older employees in the office are often overlooked while selecting team members for new projects
• Classism: Individuals from lower social classes are less likely to hold top management positions than people from higher social classes
• Disability: Employees with disability are considered to be a liability for team
• Homophobia: People with a certain sexual orientation are immoral and, hence, untrustworthy
• Nationalism: People from a certain nationality are antisemitic
• Religion: Discrimination against a certain religion as it is perceived to be source of terrorism

• Xenophobia: Immigrants are stealing business opportunities of host countries

Slide 3

This slide highlights the negative effects of prejudices at the workplace such as formation of ingroups and outgroups, poor mental health, creation of stigma, and microaggressions.

Instructor’s Notes:

• Formation of Ingroups and Outgroups: Prejudice leads to the division of the workforce, leading to the formation of in-groups and outgroups in the company
  1. Ingroups: These consist of individuals belonging to a specific category of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, class, etc.
  2. Outgroups: All other individuals other than those in ingroups comes under outgroups
  3. It further leads to bias as individuals in ingroups tend to provide preferential treatment to the same group members
• Poor Mental Health: Employees that suffers prejudice at the workplace suffer from poor mental health conditions such as
  1. Depression and anxiety
  2. Impostor syndrome: It is doubting own capabilities and feeling like a fraud, and questioning achieved success regularly
• Creation of Stigma: The person targeted by prejudice becomes stigmatized, leading to low morale and poor performance
• Microaggressions: In day-to-day prejudice, employees from the marginalized group can feel microaggression by becoming victims of direct or indirect comments/actions

Slide 4

This slide showcases the practices to reduce prejudices at the workplace, such as continuous education of employees, using inclusive language, promoting equality and diversity, encouraging to share feedback, and conducting counseling sessions.

Instructor’s Notes:

• Conducting Counselling Sessions: Regularly conduct counseling sessions of employees to check if they face any mental health problems due to prejudiced workplace. If yes, then immediately provide necessary corrective actions and support
• Continuous Education of Employees: Conduct training sessions and provide learning material to employees to make them aware of the adverse effects of prejudice
• Using Inclusive Language: Use inclusive language to minimize prejudice by not using culturally specific jargons or masculine pronouns
• Encouraging Employees to Share Feedback: Encourage employees to share any prevailing prejudice they have faced (or someone they know in the organization is facing) by keeping their identity anonymous

Slide 5

The purpose of this slide is to showcases meme collection for prejudices at workplace.

Slide 6

The purpose of this slide is to showcases meme collection for prejudices lead to in and out-group formation.

Slide 7

The purpose of this slide is to showcases a meme that reflects ageism prejudice at workplace.

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