Equality and Diversity in the Workplace: Investigating Gender Pay Gap

Equality and diversity at
work place

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC: “To critically investigate the issues associated with equality and diversity in the
workplace in relation with gender pay gap.”...................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P 1. Devising aim and objectives of the project..........................................................................1
P 2. Project management plan.....................................................................................................2
P 3. WBS and Gantt Chart..........................................................................................................3
Gantt chart........................................................................................................................................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P 4. Small scale research.............................................................................................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7
Data analysis and interpretation..................................................................................................7
P6) Recommendations as outcomes of research and data analysis-400...................................17
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................18
P7) Reflection based own performance and learning...............................................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................23

TOPIC: “To critically investigate the issues associated with equality and diversity
in the workplace in relation with gender pay gap.”
LO 1
P 1. Devising aim and objectives of the project.
Background
Equality and diversity within the workplace helps in effectively promoting various range
of equal opportunities within the business. This helps in giving equal opportunity to the
individual in order to achieve the full potential of the individual which is free from
discrimination and prejudice. Gender pay gap is referred to as the average difference in the
remuneration for the men and women who tends to focus on carrying out several other
operations within a workplace. This study will highlight in critically investigating the issues
associated with equality and diversity in the workplace in relation with gender pay gap.
Aston Martin is one of the top leading luxury auto mobile manufacturing company which
was founded in the year 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. This company is
headquartered in Gaydon, Warwickshire, UK. This company tends to sell luxurious sports car,
grand tourers and auto mobiles.
Aim and Objectives
Aim:
“To critically investigate the issues associated with equality and diversity in the
workplace in relation with gender pay gap. A study on Aston Martin plc.”
Research Objectives
 To determine the importance of equality and diversity within workplace.
 To critically investigate how gender pay gap influences equality and diversity within
workplace.
 To determine the challenges linked with gender pay gap in workplace.
 To provide effective recommendation strategies in order to eliminate gender pay gap in
workplace.
Research Questions
 What is the importance of equality and diversity within workplace?
 How gender pay gap influences equality and diversity within workplace?
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 What are the challenges linked with gender pay gap in workplace.?
 What are effective recommendation strategies in order to eliminate gender pay gap in
workplace?
P 2. Project management plan.
Project management plan is considered to be an effective approach which in turn helps in
critically evaluating and describing every phase of the project.
Cost: This helps in outlining the cost associated with carrying out various activities or
task of the particular project (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016). The estimated cost associated with
carrying out the particular project is $2500.
Scope: The scope of carrying out the project is very broad because it helps in determining
the factors which results in gender pay gap discrimination within the workplace. This is very
useful in determining the challenges and effective recommendation strategies linked with gender
pay gap in workplace.
Time: This helps management in organizing the specific plan to determine the time spent
to carry our each activity (Hazır, 2015). This helps in outlining the specific task and also helps in
determining how much time is required to carry out specific task. The estimated time to complete
the particular project is 15 weeks.
Quality: This helps project management in determining the quality procedure and
policies which in turn helps in ensuring that the quality level is effectively maintained at the time
of project deliverables and processes.
Communication: This is considered to be an effective tool as it helps in
enabling each individual to communicate the message in an efficient and sustainable manner
(Papke-Shields and Boyer-Wright, 2017). The team members can use effective communication
tools like voice message, text message, video calling, telephone, etc. in order to communicate the
message effectively.
Risk: This is considered to be an event which in turn helps in assessing several risks
while carrying out the research project. This helps management in effectively developing a plan
in order to addressing the relevant issues like time boundedness, limited resources, etc.
associated with research project.
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Resources: This helps in summarizing the resources required to complete a particular
project (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016). The resources required to carry out particular project are
stationary, petrol, financial resources, human resources, etc.
Milestone schedule
Milestone Due date Justification
Formulation of aim and
objectives
/12/2019 The project management will
formulate aim and objectives 2
days before the deadline. This
will help them in taking
feedback from tutor and make
relevant changes accordingly.
Primary and secondary
research
/01/2020 This activity will be completed
7 days before in order to
determine the data collected is
valid, authentic and relevant.
Data analysis /01/2020 Data collected will be analysed
and completed 5 days before
the stipulated time in order to
take feedback from the tutor
and make necessary changes.
P 3. WBS and Gantt Chart.
Work breakdown structure
This is a deliverable oriented hierarchical structure which mainly focuses on
accomplishing the aims and objectives of the project in a systematic and timely manner.
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Gantt chart
This is considered to be a part of bar structure which in turn helps in illustrating the
schedule of the project. This helps in determining the number of task and time associated with
carrying out each task.
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors Resource
Names Cost
Auto
Schedule
d
Selection of
appropriate
topic
2 days Mon 16-
12-19
Tue 17-
12-19
human
resource $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
formulation of
aim and
objectives
3 days Wed 18-
12-19
Fri 20-12-
19 1 human
resource $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
carrying out
project
managemnt plan
4 days Mon 23-
12-19
Thu 26-
12-19 2,1 financial
resource $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Preparing
milestone
schedule
2 days Mon 23-
12-19
Tue 24-
12-19 2 technical
resource $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Carrying out
research
methodology
6 days Fri 27-
12-19
Fri 03-01-
20 3 human
resource $500.00
Auto
Schedule
Preparing
questionnaire
7 days Mon 06-
01-20
Tue 14-
01-20
2,5 human
resource
$700.00
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