Diversity and inclusion employer strategy for Scottish Government
This diversity and inclusion strategy is a call to action to all leaders, managers and employees in the Scottish Government to disrupt the status quo, to adapt, innovate and to challenge with psychological safety.
Enablers
Three key organisational enablers are fundamental to delivering our employer equality outcomes. This strategy, In the service of Scotland and our People strategy. Collectively they drive improvements and deliver the best for the people of Scotland.
In the service of Scotland
Our mission - To improve the lives of the people of Scotland.
Our vision - To be a dynamic, diverse and connected organisation serving Scotland now and in the future.
Our values:
- We act with integrity
- We are inclusive
- We are collaborative
- We are innovative
- We are kind
Our improvement priorities:
- Creating an empowering and enabling organisational culture
- Building a sustainable and outcomes-focused organisation
- Nurturing respectful and trusting partnerships
- Developing high quality business processes
- Providing a flexible workplace, enabling technology and usable data
People strategy – a programme of change
Aim: a more flexible workforce, engaged and capable of responding to current and future priorities.
Outcomes:
- we consistently help our people to thrive
- we are organised to respond flexibly to priorities
- we are building our professional capability for the future
- we are confident in managing people and performance
Profile piece: our two flagship inclusion initiatives
Practical and user centred support
To achieve improved outcomes, solutions need to be inclusive and take account of how intersectionality can compound experience.
Our Mutual mentoring programme
In its fifth year, the programme will extend to all traditionally under-represented equality groups.
Leaders, and individuals with a protected characteristic share experience for mutual benefit.
Hearing personal experiences grows
more inclusive leadership and allies to remove barriers stopping our diverse talent make their best contributions.
Matching that talent with senior leaders creates a unique space to share career advice, helping increase representation at all levels
Our Employee passport
Launched in 2022 and being adopted by all our agencies.
Taking a new approach to support employees to perform at their best. Recognising everyone, at some point in their career, will face circumstances that impact on them at work.
Facilitating conversation between individuals and managers, it offers a framework to agree informal adjustments, and creates a direct entry route to the HR Workplace Adjustments Service team when more formal or more complex reasonable adjustments are needed.
83% of participants agreed the Mutual mentoring programme opens up new ideas for personal and professional development.
Mutual mentoring evaluation 2022
Contact
Email: diversityteam@gov.scot
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