Discrimination in the Workplace: A Literature Review

Running head: DISSERTATION LITERATURE REVIEW
Discrimination in the workplace

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Statement of the research.............................................................................................................3
Problem statement........................................................................................................................3
The rationale of the dissertation...................................................................................................4
Aim and objectives of the research..............................................................................................4
Research Questions......................................................................................................................5
Literature Review............................................................................................................................5
A critical review of the literature.................................................................................................5
Elements of Discrimination in the Workplace.............................................................................5
Remedies for eliminating discrimination in the workplace.........................................................7
Explain the relationships between the variables of your research model by providing a critical
review of pertinent literature........................................................................................................9
Hypothesis.....................................................................................................................................12
Research model..............................................................................................................................12
Planned research methods..............................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Statement of the research
Discrimination may create an issue for each individual at the workplace. Discrimination may
also decline the human capital whereas generating an aggressive working atmosphere for the
workforces and employers. Moreover, workplace discrimination is a phrase that many human
resource managers apply to their workplace. It is defined as discrimination in promotion,
compensation, termination, job assignment, hiring and promotion (Gov.Uk. 2018). It is
addressed that there is much authority that prohibited certain kinds of workplace discrimination.
However, this forbidding discrimination is relied on some feature. Moreover, discrimination
within an organisation must not be mystified with genuine advice and comment such as feasible
unfavourable remark and criticisms with supervisors and managers on the task and work-linked
attitude of a person and set of individuals (Independent, 2018).
In addition, employment discrimination regulations seek to avoid discrimination as per sex,
religion, race, age, physical injury and national origin by supervisors. An increasing legislation
also focuses on avoiding discrimination of employment as per the sexual category. Along with
this, discriminatory activities involve partiality in recruiting, task allocation, promotion,
retaliation, different kind of harassment (Vickers, 2016).
The procedure of offering criticism to employees at the time of formal performance appraisal,
and counseling employees towards tasks, will not be liberated from anxiety. Hence, supervisor
must organise this kinds of procedures with feeling; however, they should not eliminate their
accountabilities to offer full and honest comments to employees (Verniers, and Vala, 2018).
Problem statement

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In current decades, discrimination highly exists in the workplace. It is identified that workplace
conceals these practices from the external atmosphere. However, there are different regulation
and human resources program to contradict it and to endorse gratitude of differentiation.
Moreover, discrimination might be insignificant, but different researches have analysed its
impact. Two individuals who have alike experiences and competencies however diverse
background could be pushed in different paths. The key issue is that prejudice highly
unintentional together with mainly undetectable. It may occur in each day practices like
assignments of task, familiar mentoring together with appraisals of performance (Offermann, et.
al., 2014).
For example, in Tesco, discrimination creates a serious hazard in an effective discharge of its
duties. It is assessed that women face discrimination at the time of promotion to get a higher
rank. This discrimination disrupts the dreams of workforces at the workplace. This study tries to
provide awareness to avoid discrimination in the workplace of UK (Sipe, et. al., 2016).
The rationale of the dissertation
This investigation would be beneficial for gaining awareness about the element of discrimination
in the workplace. It would be also effective for comprehending the impact of discrimination on
the workplace. This research would be prominent for comprehending the remedies to eliminate
the discrimination within an organization (Verniers, and Vala, 2018).
Aim and objectives of the research
The main aim of this research is to identify discrimination in the workplace. Following
objectives are used to accomplish key aim of this investigation:
RO1: To explore the conceptual understanding about elements of discrimination in the
Workplace