A Short Guide to Equality Risk

In A Short Guide to Equality Risk Tony Morden analyses the concepts, theories, and issues associated with the implementation in organisations and in the service environment of an Equality, Diversity, and Discrimination (EDD) agenda, so as to minimise risk for organisations and individuals that will certainly arise if such implementation is mishandled.Using his own insights and the specialised medico-legal knowledge he has acquired in the course of successfully defending his rights in employment against alleged discrimination, harassment, and victimisation, the author examines the issues at stake from leadership, governance, management, opportunity, and performance-oriented perspectives.The book's chapters firstly analyse the components of an EDD Agenda, embracing issues around equality, diversity, opportunity, and discrimination; and examines issues and dilemmas associated with such an agenda. There follows a strategic and a performance-oriented overview of the issues of leadership, prioritisation, management process, and of managing architectures, applying performance and risk management concepts, and achieving results in an organisational environment. Throughout, the book is illustrated with appropriate case studies and draws on a growing body of international experience in this area.Written from a scholarly perspective, but in a practitioner-oriented and reader-friendly manner, this addition to the series of short guides to business risk provides a credible, strategic, and implementation-based overview of what is becoming a critically important, politically sensitive, and high risk subject.