Hints & tips: Sadi Mehmood gives some practical advice on diversity training issues in the modern workplace.

Training Journal | August 1, 2007| | Copyright

8 tips on raising cultural awareness

Every year, UK plc spends more than 22m[pounds sterling] in training employers but less than 10 per cent of that money is actually put to effective, practical use, especially with regard to cultural awareness and discrimination.

Our multicultural society creates all manner of problems through ignorance and fear of different cultures and religions, especially within the Asian communities. Understanding how people behave, what offends them and what doesn't, can help us ignite positive relations with both employees and ...

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