Working Methods
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Physical, Remote and Virtual Workplaces
Tags Share Where people work is central to their work experience. Opportunities to honor dignity (and the potential for dignity challenges) exist in all on-site and virtual workplaces. While working from home (or other remote locations) became more common due to COVID-19 in some industries, it has been repeatedly embraced by employees (for at least…
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Compliance and Other Training and Education
Tags Share Workplace culture and conduct training programs are often necessary to meet legal or other requirements. While such proscriptive efforts, standing alone, do not create a dignity-centered workplace or ensure its sustained impact (particularly if senior leaders are exempted), they can be delivered in creative ways that also honor dignity, advance stated values, and…
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Grassroots and Other Employee Efforts
Tags Share Employee empowerment and recognition advance workplace dignity. Many employees may lead efforts focused on inclusion or community engagement, such as an employee resource group (ERG) or a volunteer initiative. Especially in the case of collectives like ERGs, grassroots efforts can advance dignity by offering safe places for individuals from underrepresented groups to discuss…
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Strategic Values, Goals and Governance
Tags Share As our friend and partner, Donna Hicks, recognized in Leading With Dignity, “the stated focus of many organizations is accomplishing their strategic goals, and if honoring dignity is not woven into these goals, dignity of employees may be seen as distracting from the organization’s interests.” Centering dignity in core values enriches a brand…
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Policy
Tags Share Policies impact employees in a systemic way. They reflect what organizations reward and what they discourage, which affects dignity-honoring elements like safety, inclusion, fairness, and accountability. This means policies must cover a broad range of workplace behaviors and practices, and be visible, periodically and clearly communicated (including from senior leadership), consistently enforced through…
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Internal communications
Tags Share The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer found that regular communication with employees plays an increasingly central role in how much employees trust their employers. They are an important driver of workplace culture and how employees feel, whether through intranet site postings, all hands/all staff/team meetings, internal bulletin boards, or organization-wide announcements and emails, including…
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