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Making religion part of your company's diversity, equity and inclusion strategy will strengthen employees' engagement and performance and help them serve customers better, write Interfaith America's Megan Johnson, Amber Hacker and Eboo Patel, and the Chautauqua Institution's Michael Hill. Let employees talk about religion at work, be clear about the need to respect each other's beliefs, offer floating holidays, provide workplace prayer spaces and establish interfaith employee resource groups, they advise. Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (6/21)
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When it comes to conversations about promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, we focus almost exclusively on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. We want people, regardless of their background, to feel accepted and included in their workplaces. And yet, often missing from these DEI conversations, is the topic of faith and religion. It’s been my experience that workplaces are less concerned about protecting employees who practice faith. I’ve been in several meetings and discussions with colleagues during which flippant comments are made about churches, Christians and members of the clergy. These comments always surprise me. We would never be so cavalier when talking about people of a certain race, sexual orientation or gender. But for some reason, faith and religion have become fair targets of casual disrespect. That has to change, say Megan Johnson, Amber Hacker, Michael Hill, and Eboo Patel in today’s HR Leader story. All employees should feel safe in their workplace, regardless of their faith affiliation. Organizations can foster this by including religious identity in their DEI initiatives. A good first step is establishing policies that protect the dignity of all employees and guard them against anti-religious or interreligious bias. What do you think? Have you encountered bias on the basis of your faith or religion? Let me know! And if you enjoy this brief, tell others so they can benefit also.
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