What evidence is there that cohesion works?
The good practice examples demonstrate how many different organisations have improved performance, turned round difficult situations and have been able to capitalise on the diversity in their workforce and local community.
You can access these examples in the section on case studies but to give you an example
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Bradgate Bakery |
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Bradgate Bakery in Leicester employs an incredibly diverse workforce. Working with Leicester College, Bradgate assessed every individual's language and communications skills and asceratined that over 75% of those employed had poor or very poor levels of English. In order to orientate, induct and integrate them into the existing workforce they embarked on designing and implementing a bespoke training and development plan with the College for all of the 80 new employees. All new staff were assigned a hygiene member of staff who was trained as a 'buddy'. Their buddy role was to coach and assist the new member of staff and try to make them feel welcome and integrated into the team. In its four years since the implementation of this form of ESOL business language training, the business has seen year on year improvement with employee survey results, lower staff turnover, a stability rating of just over 90% and a massive improvement in the cleaning regime. |