Should a company offer a training session on diversity or LGBT issues? When I worked for a Fortune 500 company, we had to take an ethics training session every year. It was a common sense overview of ethics issues and a sales pitch for the company’s ethics violations reporting. Honestly, that training was pretty worthless to me. No one really liked the training which made it even less interesting.
I believe that presenting a class on accepting a diverse workforce could be helpful. There are many LGBT issues that can come up at work, as we’ve seen on this site. Training could help ease tensions between employees of different races, sexual orientations, sexual identities, and even religions.
Sometimes people need to be forced to think about their actions. Inadvertent anti-gay comments are made all the time. How many of us have called something gay or retarded because they seemed dumb or stupid? We have all done it. Actions such as these do hurt people. If education is available to help people understand the fact that certain actions or words do hurt, maybe they would refrain from them.
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