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Diversity at Workplace

Creating an inclusive environment
for employees hailing from different
religious, ethnic and
socioeconomic backgrounds is
imperative for any organization to
reach its full potential. Valuing
individual differences and allowing
each person to equally contribute
to the organizational goals, can
have an extremely positive impact
on overall motivation and
productivity level of employees.
Recognizing this, SBP BSC has
been endeavoring to sensitize its
employees to this concept in order Workplace Ethics plan for creating organization-wide
to develop an organizational awareness on this topic, residential
culture that instills an increased Second iteration of Workplace trainings for Senior Management
sense of belonging in all its Ethics was conducted on June 20, and presence of an organizational
employees. Ms. Shireen Naqvi, a 2022 by Mr. Sohail Muhammad Ali. structure to address such issues.
renowned corporate trainer was In this training, Mr. Ali shared the The 10th and 11th iterations of the
engaged to deliver a one-day importance of organization’s Workplace Harassment training
sensitization session on “Diversity culture assessment, difference were conducted in April and May at
at Workplace” on May 20, 2022 for between compliance based and Mehergarh Training Institute by Ms.
officers working in different levels of ethic based approaches, Maliha Hussain, Executive Director,
the SBP BSC hierarchy. During the international best practices in terms Mehergarh Training Institute. Ms.
training, Ms. Naqvi emphasized the of workplace ethics, ethical Maliha has been working on the
importance of diversity at decision making, limitations and nationwide implementation of anti-
workplace, tangible benefits arising reviving work ethics etc. The sexual harassment legislation in
out of acceptance and inclusion of program was attended by 16 Pakistan Since March 2010 and
employees of all backgrounds for participants from SBP. assists organization in developing
an organization, personal effective policies for successful
conscious and unconscious biases Workplace Harassment implementation. She discussed
and managing these biases for different types of harassments
improved productivity. She further Workplace Harassment has issues at workplace faced by both
discussed different cases become one of the most sensitive male and female officers, provided
highlighting the benefits gained by areas of effective workplace guidance to the participants to
various organizations after management, because a recognize harassment and
successful implementation of significant source of work stress is discussed requirements/provisions
Diversity and Inclusion Policies. associated with the issue. SBP and of the Workplace Harassment Act-
its subsidiaries have developed 2010 etc. Ms. Lubna Farooq Malik,
and implemented a comprehensive Director General-Financial
Monitoring Unit and Dr. Omar
Farooq Saqib, Director-EPRD (both
members of SBP Inquiry
Committee) also joined the
respective sessions to share the
role of SBP Inquiry Committee in
addressing issues pertaining to
sexual harassment at SBP.