BITC Race Campaign 30th Anniversary Employee Progression
Wed, 18 June @ 10:00 – 11:00
This is an online event.
Audience
This is event is open to both members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC). It would be of interest to anyone who has signed the Race at Work Charter. Particularly leaders and Executive Sponsors for Race and those who want to hear first hand from senior leaders about the actions they are taking within their organisations.
Background
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the BITC Race Equality campaign. We will be sharing some fresh insights and updated evidence on trends linked to the Race at Work Charter captured within our most recent Leadership, Employees, and Procurement survey, with YouGov in June 2024. This new data fed into our Diverse and Inclusive Supply Chains Insights report and builds on the evidence gathered in our Race at Work Survey series (2015–2021), providing a deeper understanding of racial disparities, fairness and access to opportunities in UK workplaces.
About the event
This is the second of three insight events in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the BITC Race Equality campaign.
We will explore what the data has shown us since we first began capturing evidence in our Race to the Top report in 2009, Aspiration and Frustration in 2010, Race to Progress 2011, Race at the Top 2014 and since the Race at Work series in 2015. The evidence that we have gathered has fed into our Race at Work Charter founded in 2018 with 85 employers. Charter commitments four and five which are directly related to managers and employee fair access to opportunities and progression in the workplace.
We will be sharing trends on race at work from most recent YouGov 2024 findings and include fresh insights from employees. For example, what is the experience of microaggressions in the workplace? What about bias and AI?
What actions must employers take collectively now and, in the future, to ensure:
- Fair access to opportunities to progress in the workplace, good work allocation, stretch assignments and projects where there is an identified linked to ethnicity and socio-economic background
- Data linked to recruitment, retention, and performance appraisal linked to employee progression is free from bias
- Restructuring does not have a disproportionate impact on gender or ethnicity in the organisation
Are there simple things linked to accessing work, networks and opportunities when looking at the intersection of ethnicity and social background? These will be explored at this session.
We will also be releasing a new Progression 10-Year trend paper, looking at the future and share updated tools and materials to help employers to make the case for action in their organisations.
Speakers
Sandra Kerr CBE, Race Equality Director, Business in the Community who will be chairing the event
Professor Nelarine Cornelius BSc, PhD, MBA, Professor of Organisation Studies, Queen Mary University
Martin Barnett, Global Head Technical Product Experts, Search Ads 360, Google
Dr Chidozie Umeh (ACIPD, FHEA), Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management, University of York Heslington
Booking, contact details and further information
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