"Shi'ite joke costs Barclaycard director his job"

"Credit card chief quits over joke at Muslims' expense"

"Staff complain at 'wholly inappropriate' remark"

'A leading bank executive has been forced to quit after making an insulting remark about Muslims.

Marc Howells, who was on of Barclaycard's leading figures, left his £200,000-a-year job after making the quip during a staff meeting as he discussed quarterly figures.

Colleagues were stunned when he said: "The results were like Muslims - some were good, some were Shi'ite."

Offended members of staff complained to senior bosses about the "wholly inappropriate" comment.'                                                                                               (Source: Daily Telegraph 01 01 08)

Are all of your staff well informed?

Is your organisation potentially at risk from inappropriate behaviour?

An easy way to build awareness of the wide range of diversity and equality issues for all your staff is through the Diversity Calendar.  This is the leading Diversity management resource in the UK and Ireland.  The calendar is invaluable for staff as each month details all the main religious and secular dates - including bank holidays.  The calendar costs just £7.50 per copy and helps managers and supervisors to ensure that staff meetings and organisation events are not planned for dates when key sections of the workforce or customer base cannot participate.  Many trainers use the calendar to support their diversity and equality training.  

The calendar is an ideal and cost effective way to promote your organisation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion – to staff, to clients and to the wider community.

Diversiton also produces a bespoke pdf edition of the Diversity Calendar - with your organisation name on the front cover. This allows you to distribute your licensed edition of the Diversity Calendar by email or on your website - and ensure all staff have access to their own copy.   You can for example,

• place the Diversity Calendar on any part of your organisation website(s) or intranet – to be freely accessed by employees and clients/users

• distribute the Diversity Calendar by email to all employees so that they have their own desk copy – at home and/or at work.

Examples of some of the organisations who are currently using the 2008 bespoke on-line edition include… Barking & Dagenham PCT, Openreach, British Red Cross, Southern Regional College, Eastern Health & Social Services Board, City of London Police, Bristol City Council, DEFRA, Staffordshire Universit, the British Library ... and many others.

All of your staff can access the calendar on-line for a one off inclusive fee of £450 for the whole of 2008 - irrespective of the number of employees.  This is a very cost effective (around £8 per week) diversity management resource.   Order your bespoke organisation copy now. Simply email celine@diversiton.com with your organisation name and contact details or call 028 417 54777.

Thank you - and have a great 2008.
 
Des McCabe
Chief Executive
Diversiton

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