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Too HR or not too HR?

By James Traeger and Claire McCartney (November 2007 Issue)
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How often do the shades and subtleties of an issue get lost in the cut and thrust of public debate? Recently a dispute has raged in the HR press about whether diversity should be the ‘sole provision of HR’. Comments by Trevor Phillips, the head of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights, arguing against this position, have sparked some heated exchanges for those with an interest in these things.

But the realities of the workplace grind on and, in fact, such ‘for or against’ positions are in danger of missing the point for those people who struggle with the complexities of things like diversity on a day-to-day basis.

At Roffey Park, we have been considering these issues for many years. We realise that diversity is a complex issue, and debates like this can cloud the main concern: how do we make a difference in changing the discriminatory behaviours and attitudes that seep out behind the veneer of official policies and target-setting procedures?

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