Becoming a More Diverse and Inclusive BBC
Post categories: Diversity, Future Workplace
|17:25 UK time, Wednesday, 10 June 2009
What does Diversity mean to the BBC? [intro taken from the BBC Diversity website]
We live in a diverse, dynamic and fast changing society, made up of people from a whole variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, of varying ages, with different faiths and beliefs, different life experiences, ideals, motivations and social values.
For the BBC to be successful and deliver against our Creative Future aspirations, we must reflect the reality of society across everything we do and engage the totality of the population
- in programme making, in audience interaction and in our workforce.As a public service broadcaster, our licence to operate is based on our ability to engage with and offer something to all everyone in the UK audience.
I was very keen to take on this task, (despite all my other responsibilities!) as I strongly believe that being able to work in an environment which is engaging, culturally reflective and that affords access to all parts of 21st Century Britain is something worth fighting for.
I may not have all the answers and I certainly don't have total awareness of the Diversity agenda but I have started the journey towards an Operations Division that is inclusive and recognises Diversity - there is some interesting information available online, you can check out the links below as a start - why not find out more? As ever, feel free to comment on this mail if you have a point you'd like to raise in response.
Chris
Information on BBC Diversity policies
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