Har vi en mångfaldspolicy att fylla i frågeformulär

Policy or practice: the difference that the question makes

The question "do we have a diversity policy" usually has three possible answers, and the distinction lies in what is actually documented. An established and documented policy — a text with objectives, responsibilities and possibly targets — is different from a practice that exists but is not written down anywhere, and that is again different from having no policy at all. Many customer questionnaires do not make this distinction explicit, but the evidence requested with it (usually: the policy document itself, or a link to an internal page) makes the distinction implicit. Without a document, "yes" cannot be substantiated, even if the practice is in order.

If there is no document, the answer in practice is often "no" or "in development" — not because nothing is happening, but because the question asks for a documented policy, not for an atmosphere. That is a different subject from the question about könsfördelningen bland personalen, which asks for a figure and not a policy document; the two questions often appear next to each other in the same list but each need their own evidence. If you are encountering this question for the first time and want to know how to fill in something meaningful without an existing document, you will find the approach in how to fill in the diversity question in the questionnaire.

Där detta kommer ifrån: VSME-basmodulen

This question appears in customer questionnaires because larger buyers themselves report according to the CSRD (Directive (EU) 2022/2464) and need data from their suppliers for this. For SME suppliers who do not themselves fall under the CSRD, the EFRAG VSME basic module is the standard on which this type of question is usually based; that module asks about personnel policy including diversity as a separate section, separate from the numerical composition of the workforce.