Diversity skills becoming management tools of the future
Singapore
COMPANIES here now offer employees a slew of training modules on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. They include sessions on working across different cultures to understanding the needs of transgender colleagues.
Training firm Human Capital (Singapore) introduced a three-day course on managing diversity in 2016, which has been run more than a dozen times in both English and Mandarin for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Larger companies have asked for shorter sessions of their own.
David Ang, director of corporate services, said: "The programme aims to help SME owners appreciate and manage differences across employees of different age groups, race and nationality in Singapore's multicultural society." And, while the course also deals with diversity…
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