I am considering attending an event that a group is holding at a venue operated by another organisation, and I happened to see the second group - a local sporting body - had their policies online (as many good organisations do, these days), so I thought I’d have a look ... and I thought their efforts a bit of a mixed bag.
Some things I considered good - particularly the code of conduct for parents (although I haven’t been involved in children’s sports so don’t have anything to compare that with) - and coaches,
However:
- this was an organisation which had male and female teams, but no specific gender policy (are they trying to avoid gender identity/natural variation of sex characteristics [also known as intersex] issues?);
- the social media policy viewed social media solely as a combative arena for competitive expressions of opinion, and completely failed to appreciate that social media is also, for some people, a place to find and give emotional, moral, and mental (peer) support - which, I have realised, is a flaw many organisations have - and thus any actions by the company that adversely impact on that support aspect will degrade the social life and associated wellbeing of the person and key people in that person's social circle of support;
- the racial and religious tolerance policy was based on a whole stack of “thou shalt nots”, but failed to acknowledge the strength that can come from active inclusion of differing cultures (a mention of education in the access and inclusion policy was the closest they came to that - and that is in a “thou shalt not” context).
Did they get a personal injury solicitor to write these/joke?
In any case, I know many other organisations that make the same mistakes.
As a society, we need to start doing better.
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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