Mid-Hudson Valley

Society for Human Resource Management

September 22, 2016 Chapter Meeting

Religious Diversity in the Workplace: Accommodation and Inclusion

NOTE VENUE CHANGE

LOCATION:                       Comfort Inn

                                             20 Hatfield Lane

                                             Goshen, NY 10924

DATE & TIME:                   Thursday, September 22, 2016

8:15 - 8:45 am: Registration, Breakfast

8:45 - 9:15: Announcements & Introductions

9:15- 10:30AM: Program

COST:    $15 Chapter Member; $25 Non-Chapter Member; $7 Student 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Every day, your employees interact with clients and colleagues from a variety of religious backgrounds. With workplace diversity increasing across the U.S. and around the world, employers need proactive solutions to end religious discrimination and harassment in the workplace and to foster positive relationships with customers, suppliers and other business contacts with varying religious beliefs. A leader at tackling religious bias in the workplace, the Tanenbaum Center for Religious Understanding is a secular, non-sectarian nonprofit organization that promotes mutual respect with practical programs that bridge religious difference and combat prejudice in schools, workplaces, health care settings and areas of armed conflict. This program, developed by the Tanenbaum Center, will include the following topics:
Trends: The impact of today’s mix of trends – immigration, globalization, adherence – on religion in the workplace. 

Bottom Line Reasons for Addressing Religious Diversity: The bottom line business implications for proactively addressing religious diversity issues, including rising EEOC complaints and the effect on recruitment, retention, morale and productivity. 

Religious Bias Danger Signs: Tanenbaum’s ten danger signs of obvious and subtle forms of religious bias that frequently show up at work. 

Finding Creative Solutions: Case scenarios of actual situations provide an opportunity to understand how issues of religion emerge in the workplace, and how to develop creative accommodations. 

Better Practices and Implementation Tips: Strategies to support human resource managers in proactively addressing religious diversity and contributing to a culture of religio-cultural respect in their workplaces.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Eliza Blanchard, Senior Program Associate at the Tanenbaum Center. Ms. Blachard received her B.A. from Vassar College and is currently completing her M.A. in Bioethics at New York University. In her position as Senior Program Associate at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, she leads the Workplace Program by developing program materials, delivering trainings and consultation services to Tanenbaum’s public and private sector clients, managing Tanenbaum’s Corporate Membership program, and building the program’s capacity and impact. Most recently she has presented for New York City SHRM, the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, and several of Tanenbaum’s client companies.