At Just-Imagine, like everywhere in life, we’re not all the same – and we believe this is one of our greatest strengths. We celebrate our differences and use our diversity to make better judgements and provide better services to our clients.
No one person, group or culture has all the knowledge, skills or information needed to make the best decisions. We believe that, by promoting and maintaining an inclusive environment, we leverage our diverse backgrounds and experiences – which results in greater innovation, better problem-solving and consistently better outcomes.
We don’t just think this, we put it into practice… please feel free to take a look at our policy below:
Inclusion and Diversity Policy
At Just-Imagine we benefit greatly from the skills, experience and commitment of the diverse range of people who work with us. We recognise that that diversity is essential to us being able to best serve our clients and strive to ensure that no one is treated inappropriately or disrespectfully at their workplace. This is aligned with our values to act with integrity and care for our people.
This policy sets out our approach to inclusion and diversity and the avoidance of discrimination at work.
Inclusion and diversity for the purposes of this policy means the creation of a respectful work environment in which people neither discriminate nor are discriminated against in any context on the basis of the following characteristics:
Discrimination for these purposes includes one of the above characteristics being a factor in someone not being treated as favourably as they would otherwise have been treated, even if that characteristic was not the only or the main factor related to the treatment.
Harassment includes any disrespectful actions or statements related to the above characteristics or any other form of behaviour that does not involve being treated with respect and dignity. It includes any verbal or physical conduct designed to threaten, intimidate or coerce, or verbal taunting that, in the employee’s opinion, impairs his or her ability to perform his or her job. This applies in the workplace and outside the workplace (when dealing with customers, suppliers or other work-related contacts, and on work-related trips or events including social events).
Sexual harassment in any form is prohibited under this policy. Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions, or when such conduct has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
Application
This policy applies to all people who work for us (including our employees, contractors, consultants, advisors, and all other workers) and applies throughout the course of their dealings with us, including when they apply to work with us, for us and after they cease working for us. It covers all aspects of working together. The policy creates both rights to be enjoyed by people who work with us and for us and responsibilities for those same people to behave in a similar manner to ensure that others enjoy those same rights.
Directors and leaders within our business should assume particular responsibility to give effect to inclusion and diversity and robustly and promptly address any conduct that breaches this policy of which they become aware.
Assistance
We provide assistance to all our people to comply with this policy including, where appropriate, training, guidance and support from the Directors.
Complaints
Incidents of non-compliance with this policy or of any other conduct that affects inclusivity and diversity should ordinarily be reported to leaders in the first instance. Such incidents may alternatively be reported to a Director. We are committed to dealing promptly and thoroughly (and with as much confidentiality and sensitivity as is possible) with any such complaints.
We do not tolerate any form of victimisation relating to any complaint made in good faith. Victimisation includes not only conduct directed at the complainant but also conduct directed at any other person involved in any related investigation.
Sanctions
We may commence disciplinary or other applicable proceedings under our Code of Business Conduct against any person who we consider may have breached this policy. Such proceedings may lead to the imposition of appropriate disciplinary sanctions up to and including dismissal or termination of contracts.
Policy Status
We reserve the right to review and amend this policy to ensure that we are adequately promoting inclusion and diversity.
