Some books and reports on racism

Employees and managers are an important asset in the workplace - that's why workplaces need to continuously invest in their culture. I meet workplaces where the wheels are turning at full speed and where people say they simply don't have time to work on their workplace culture. I also meet workplaces that have had, or are facing, downsizing, where they say that in this situation they cannot prioritise working on their culture. In both cases, this is a

To what extent do employees feel that they are subjected to sexual harassment and victimisation in the workplace? Swedish Work Environment Authority survey In the Swedish Work Environment Authority's Work Environment 2024 survey, which is aimed at people who work and are aged 16-64, 4 % state that they have experienced sexual harassment by managers, colleagues or by others such as customers, patients or students. The most common victimisation is by others, followed by colleagues. 18 % feel that they

What is racism? Racism is ideas, prejudices, attitudes but also actions and practices. Racism classifies ”people into different varieties attributed to particular inherited characteristics” and creates and ”maintains an unequal distribution of status, privileges, resources, rights and opportunities” and makes natural/self-evident ”the power order created by the principles of sorting, placement and distribution” (quote from the report Anti-Black Racism and Discrimination in the Labour Market by the County Administrative Board of Stockholm, 2018, pp. 15-16) There are different types of racism, for example

How do employees perceive the jargon in their workplace? And to what extent do employees feel that they are mistreated or subjected to varying degrees of offensive behaviour from their colleagues, managers or others in work situations? Harmful jargon In the Harassment Survey, 12 % indicate that at their workplace, to a fairly large or very large extent, there is jargon that people can take offence at. There is no difference between women and men's experiences. In the age group 18-29

Several recent surveys report statistics on the experience of discrimination in Swedish working life. Exposed to discrimination - Work Environment 2024 In the Swedish Work Environment Authority's survey Work Environment 2024, which is aimed at people who work and are aged 16-64, 14 % state that they have been exposed to discrimination at their workplace, based on at least one of the grounds for discrimination. A breakdown shows that gender and age are the most common reasons for discrimination. 4 % report gender and 4 % report age, 3