Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders
- Corporate
Course overview
Hiring, pay, development, promotion, everyday management and how someone leaves. A leader influences every decision that determines whether people are treated fairly at work, and decisions made on merit give everyone an equal chance.
The Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course explains what equal employment opportunity means, the attributes protected by Australian law, and the difference between direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, bullying and reasonable management action.
What you'll learn
By the end of the Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course, you will be able to:
- Explain what equal employment opportunity means and the legal duties you carry as a leader
- Recognise unfair treatment, and tell it apart from reasonable management action
- Apply the seven standards to meet your positive duty
- Manage discrimination, harassment and bullying as psychosocial hazards
- Make fair decisions across the employment lifecycle, including reasonable adjustments and flexible work requests
- Handle a concern fairly, and identify where vicarious and personal liability sit
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Course structure
Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders is a single eLearning module that takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
The Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course covers:
What equal employment opportunity means. The principle behind it, the legal duties a leader carries, and the attributes protected by Australian law.
Discrimination, harassment and bullying. The difference between direct and indirect discrimination, what harassment and bullying look like at work, and where reasonable management action sits alongside them.
The positive duty and its seven standards. The positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act, and the seven standards leaders are expected to meet.
Psychosocial hazards. How discrimination, harassment and bullying must also be managed as psychosocial hazards under work health and safety law, rather than treated only as a human resources matter.
Unconscious bias. How to check bias in your own decisions rather than assume it is absent.
Reasonable adjustments and flexible work. Applying the right test to a reasonable adjustment request and to a flexible work request.
Fair decisions across the employment lifecycle. Hiring, pay, development, promotion, everyday management and exit, and what merit-based decision making looks like at each point.
Handling a concern. Responding with confidentiality and procedural fairness, and understanding where vicarious liability and personal liability sit.
The positive duty, Sex Discrimination Act. The positive duty requires employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate discrimination, harassment and hostile workplace conduct, rather than wait for a complaint. The Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course works through what the shifts are for leaders in practice.
The seven standards. The Australian Human Rights Commission sets out seven standards for satisfying the positive duty:
- Leadership
- Culture
- Knowledge
- Risk management
- Support
- Reporting and responding
- Measuring and monitoring
Work health and safety law. Discrimination, harassment and bullying are psychosocial hazards as well as conduct issues. The course covers how the same behaviour has to be managed under both, which is the connection leaders most often miss.
Vicarious and personal liability. Where liability sits when something goes wrong, for the organisation and for the individual leader.
The course suits:
- Managers and team leaders responsible for hiring, pay, development or promotion decisions
- Supervisors handling day to day performance and conduct
- Business owners and executives carrying the positive duty for their organisation
- Human resources and people and culture staff who need a shared baseline to roll out across a leadership group
- Newly promoted leaders moving from doing the work to managing the people who do it
- Corporate and business teams refreshing EEO training across a leadership cohort
The Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course is:
- One eLearning module, approximately 30 minutes to complete
- Self-paced, so you can pause the course and return to it at any point
- Available on mobile, tablet and desktop
- Written for corporate and business teams, with no legal or human resources background assumed
- Developed and delivered by etrainu
Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders was built with etrainu and a panel of sector experts.
How long is the Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course? The Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. It is a single self-paced eLearning module, so you can pause and return to it rather than finishing in one sitting.
What is the positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act? The positive duty requires employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile workplace conduct, rather than respond only after a complaint is made. It moves the obligation from reacting to preventing. Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders covers what the positive duty means for the decisions leaders make day to day.
What are the seven standards of the positive duty? The Australian Human Rights Commission sets out seven standards for satisfying the positive duty: leadership, culture, knowledge, risk management, support, reporting and responding, and measuring and monitoring. The Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders course works through how a leader applies them.
Is the course suitable for managers with no legal or HR background? Yes. Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders is written for working managers rather than specialists. The legal concepts are explained in plain terms and tied to the decisions leaders actually make, including hiring, pay, promotion and performance management.
Can I complete the course on my phone or tablet? Yes. Equal Employment Opportunity for Leaders works on mobile, tablet and desktop, so you can complete it on whichever device suits you.
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