ESG Report 202223 - Flipbook - Page 45
Inclusion and Diversity
All businesses within M Group Services are committed to providing an environment free from
discrimination, bullying, harassment or victimisation, where all our people are treated with
dignity and respect. We recognise that by harnessing diversity and applying the experiences,
abilities and unique qualities of all our people, we will enhance our business.
We create environments where everyone’s opinion and inputs are valued and where all
are treated with respect and dignity, irrelevant of their characteristics or background.
The diversity in our business means understanding, accepting and valuing differences
between our peoples’ unique qualities such as ethnicity, gender, age, religion or religious
belief, disability, education and sexual orientation.
This is not just a matter of policy. We have been actively engaged in making sure
the highest standards of diversity run through our business as part of our DNA.
Our approach has included the setting up of a wide range of Diversity and Inclusion forums,
for which every company in the Group has been able to set its own agenda and choose its
own priorities. For example, our Water Division launched two new networks; Women’s Network
and Race, Equality and Celebrating Heritage (REACH), focusing on the experiences of
women and people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to create positive change
for the future.
Many of our senior managers are also benefitting from
participation on reverse mentoring schemes, in which
volunteers from under-represented groups work with
them to share their perspectives and provide
a different ‘take’ on the way they see the world.
This has led to many of the beneficiaries of the
programme adopting and embracing new
ways of thinking and championing allyship.
Two more examples which demonstrate
our active approach to supporting
diversity and inclusion can
be found on the next page.
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