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 Home : Developing a Workplace Program : Six Steps To a Workplace Program : Step 2
Step 2. Analyse the Issues See the Act
Analyse your workplace to identify what issues there are for women in your workplace. You will need to consider each of the Employment Matters in this process.

This analysis step includes a list of questions to check which issues are relevant to your workplace.  Use information gathered from the Workplace Profile, Consultation and HR Statistics to answer the Employment Matter questions based on evidence collected - and accurately determine where in the workplace there are issues to address for women.

Step 2 Outcome: Know what the Issues are for women.
At the end of this step you should know what the issues are for women in your organisation, as well as the overall people priorities for your organisation. You will also need to assign responsibility for actioning these issues to a senior manager.

The Analysis has three parts:

  1. Gather information and analysis of issues received through employee consultation.
  2. Analyse your HR statistics & your HR policies and practices relevant to the 7 Employment Matters
  3. Identify issues for women by answering the analysis questions under the 7 Employment Matters.

 When analysing your issues the key things to consider are:

  • What is, and is not, working well for women in this workplace?
  • Why? What are the reasons for women doing well, or the reasons they are not doing as well as men?
  • How can things be improved so more women can fulfil their potential

What to include in your report? See the Act
You will need to provide information on:

  • How you analysed your workplace to identify the issues for women; and
  • What the Equal Opportunity issues for women are in your organisation.
  • The level of investigation will vary depending on the company's specific circumstances (for example, if your company is down-sizing you may spend more time analysing retrenchment rather than recruitment data).
  • See Workplace Analysis Toolkit

How do I identify the issues? See the Act

Tools to Assist at Step 2
Workplace Analysis Toolkit
Employment Matter Guidelines - Analysis questions only
Consultation Tools
Employee Opinion Survey

Additional tools to broaden your analysis
Training Needs Analysis and Skills Audit
Pay Equity Tool
Costing Turnover Calculator

Go To Step 3 - Prioritise Your Issues

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Reporting Tools
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