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PDF Employees want to work for employers that value them as individuals and listen to what they have to say.
What is a respectful workplace?
It is a workplace where:
- All employees feel valued
- Communication is polite and considerate
- People are treated as they wish to be treated
- Conflict is dealt with in a positive and respectful way
- Disrespectful behaviour and harassment are addressed
Ways to Build a Respectful Workplace
Training
- Regularly provide respectful workplace training to all workers and management
- Provide new employees with an orientation and review their rights, responsibilities and obligations towards other employees
Policies & Practices
- Review policies and practices to make sure they encourage respect
- Involve employees in the development of respectful workplace polices
- Ensure that employees know what the policy is and have it posted in places where employees gather; for example the break room or lunch room
Encourage Responsibility
- Hold supervisors, managers and employees responsible for their behaviour
- Make sure that reporting relationships are clear and that each person has only one supervisor
- Look into all complaints of disrespect and harassment
- Consider respectful behaviour in performance reviews
SOURCE USED TO DEVELOP THIS TIPS SHEET:
The Newfoundland and Labrador HR MANAGER (http://www.nlhrmanager.ca)