Current Issues of Equality and Diversity at the Workplace: A Case Study on IKEA

Equality and Diversity
Current Issues

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
P1 Aims and Objectives...............................................................................................................4
P2 Project Management Plan.......................................................................................................4
P3 Gantt Chart and WBS.............................................................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................7
Literature Review........................................................................................................................7
P4 Research Methodology...........................................................................................................8
P5 Data Collection and Data Analysis.......................................................................................10
P6 Recommendation..................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
LO4................................................................................................................................................14
P7 Performance Review............................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

Title: To investigate current issues that arises in equality and diversity at the workplace. This
report on IKEA.
INTRODUCTION
Diversity in the workplace has become one of the most discussion topic for people
because there are various companies which have brought diversity in the workplace in order to
gain high profitability. However, management plays effective role in the workplace such as to
understand employees needs and expectation for the workplace (Doucet and McKay, 2020).
Unfortunately, they unable to give such respect and equal opportunity to the employees which
they expect from manager as resulted that brings demotivation among them. Due to this, various
current issues have faced by companies while managing diversity at the job place. In this
research will discuss over current issues of diversity by the support of IKEA company.
Background: IKEA is a retail company that trades personalized furniture in to multiple countries
around the world. It was founded in 28 July 1943 and globally famous for it’s customized
furniture. In this research project will includes aims and objectives of the IKEA.
LO1
P1 Aims and Objectives
Aims
“To analyze current issue of equality and diversity at the workplace. A case study on
IKEA.
Objectives
 To evaluate current problem of diversity at the workplace
 To determine current challenges that have tackled by IKEA while organizing diversified
workforce to work on goal.
 To recommend strategies that can be resolved determined challenges
Research Questions

 What are the current issues of diversity that arises at the job place?
 What are the challenges that have deal by IKEA while coordination diversified workforce
to work on goal?
 Which strategies can be suggested to resolve determined current issues?
P2 Project Management Plan
 Scope: Current issues of diversity is the one of the most important research assignments
that has huge scope in the international market. This research will support various
organizations to develop healthy and productive working environment and establish
welfare of individuals at the workplace (Council, 2018).
 Resource: Internet, books and research papers etc. resources will take for this research
project to gather extensive informative over equality and diversity and it’s current issues
in the IKEA company.
 Communication: I will practice two-way communication process to gather actual data
related to research topic.
 Quality: In this research project will use qualitative research method that will maintain
standard of data while collecting from resources.
 Cost: This research assignment cost will take estimated 4000 euro.
Investment Range Cost
Net Cost € 1100
Transportation cost € 1000
Assistant fees € 500
Books and published
research papers cost
€ 1300
Consultancy fees € 100
Total € 4000
 Time: It takes around 12 weeks to complete whole research assignment precisely.
 Risk: Time and resources can become big risk for the project because they are limited but
it can overwhelmed by using available resources effectively.