Managing cultural diversity in workplace

Equality and Diversity in the Work
Place

Table of Contents
Title : ...............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background..................................................................................................................................1
Aims and objectives.....................................................................................................................1
Rationale......................................................................................................................................2
Significance..................................................................................................................................2
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2
Importance of Equality and Diversity to Business......................................................................2
Issues Faced By Management to maintain productive diverse culture effectively in ASDA.....3
Importance of Human Resource Policies in Managing Culture Diversity in Company..............3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES.................................................................................................4
DATA ANALYSIS..........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.............................................................................12
Recommendations......................................................................................................................12
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................15
Questionnaire.............................................................................................................................15

Title :
Managing cultural diversity in workplace
INTRODUCTION
Background
The cultural diversity and equality can be explained as promotion of equality for all with
in the diverse workforces of the organisation. This is all about providing equal opportunity to all
employees in order to provide them chance to achieve their potential. Equality and diversity also
can be taken as a process where the situations and issues like discrimination with in the
workforce. Work place discrimination can be explained as prejudicial treatment with in the
workplace that can affect hiring, promotion, job assignment, salary and benefits on the basis of
age, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, nationality or any kind of disability. These type of
problems and issues can reduce the performance of the organisation in both internal and external
operations. This is major concern for all organisation to handle issues related to discrimination in
order to keep all employees motivated and encouraged to gain effective performance in the target
market.
Aims and objectives
Aim
“To evaluate the extent to which cultural diversity can be managed through human resource
policies and practices in workplace: A study on ASDA
Objectives
 To understand importance of equality and diversity to business
 To investigate issues faced by management in managing different employees with
diverse culture in ASDA
 To analyses importance of human resource policies in managing culture diversity in
company
Research Questions:
 Why managing equality and diversity to business is important?
 What are the main issues faced by management in managing different employees with
diverse culture in ASDA?
 How human resource policies can help in managing culture diversity in company?
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Rationale
This topic is selected for research project because it is one of the most crucial factor that
can affect the performance of an organisation in target market. It can directly affect the internal
performance of organisation by affecting employee motivation and satisfaction with in
organisation. By evaluating this situation various methods can be found that can help the
organisation to reduce the issues that are related to workplace discrimination. The role of Human
Resources department is most important for internal and external performance of organisation.
This is major function of the Human Resource Department to design organisation processes and
policies to address various issues like work place discrimination and equality with in practices of
organisation.
Significance
This research project can be used by different people to develop better knowledge related
to equality and diversity with in the work place and role of Human Resource Management to
solve the problems and issues that are related to discrimination with in the workplace on the
basis of various factors and differences. Different researchers can use this research to find the
research gap and select the field of research. This research work also can be used as foundation
for other researcher to conduct their research work. This research also can be used by the
organisation for review in order provide opportunities to Human Resource Department to make
respective changes in company policies and functions. This process can help the organisation to
maintain their performance effective target market.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Importance of Equality and Diversity to Business
This is important for organisation to maintain equality with in the diverse organisation to
meet all the legal rights of employees with in organisation. As per the view of Frijns, Dodd and
Cimerova, (2016) these are some laws are made by legal authorities on national and international
level to prevent discrimination with in the work place to protect fundamental rights of
employees. This rights of individual employee protect them legally from all type of
discrimination with in the work place. Any kind of discrimination can lead the organisation to
face critical legal action from government or legal body of country. By implementing better
practices organisation can implement equality with in diverse work force. This equal treatment
between employees can help organisation to achieve maximum efficiency in operations by
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