Gender Pay Gap in the Workplace: A Study on Tesco

This study investigates the existence of gender pay gap in the context of the retail industry, focusing on Tesco. It explores the importance of equality and diversity, the impact of gender pay gap on business performance, challenges faced by companies in creating an inclusive work culture, and recommends strategies to minimize the gender pay gap.

EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY IN THE
WORKPLACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background.................................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P 1. Devising aim and objectives of the project..........................................................................1
P 2. Produce a project management plan...................................................................................2
P 3. Produce a WBS and Gantt chart.........................................................................................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P 4. Small scale research including primary and secondary methods.........................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9
P 5. Present finding and data using appropriate tools and techniques........................................9
P 6. Recommendation as outcomes of data analysis and findings ...........................................19
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................21
P 7. Reflection on own learning and performance....................................................................21
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................24

TOPIC: “ Gender pay gap is the current issue of equality and diversity in the workplace: A
study on Tesco”.
INTRODUCTION
Background
Equality and diversity is considered to be the effective strategy which helps in promoting
equal opportunity to all individuals. This helps each employee of the company to create an
effective positive culture which is free from discrimination, biasses and prejudice. There are
many companies who faces the issue of gender pay gap and as a result, it affect the overall
working environment of the company in negative way. Thus, gender pay gap is the difference
between remuneration for men and women who are working within the company where women
are generally paid less than men. This study will produce a project management plan with
appropriate Gantt chart. It will also carry out appropriate research methodology which helps in
collecting relevant information related with the research topic. Furthermore, data analysis and
interpretation is carried out through questionnaire in order to meet aim and objectives of the
research (Brown, 2017) Lastly, it will also include appropriate recommendation and reflection.
The chosen company for this report is Tesco which is a top multinational retail company
in UK and provides range of clothes, furniture, home accessories to their customers at reasonable
rates. Firm also operates at more than 11 countries with thousand of stores, which clearly reflect
that company has more than 4 lac employees. The company also faces an issue of gender pay gap
and that is why, through the research, company implement strategies to reduce the issue up to
some extent.
LO 1
P 1. Devising aim and objectives of the project.
Aim and objectives
Aim
“To investigate the existence of gender pay gap in the context of retail industry: A study
on Tesco.”
Research objectives
 To determine the importance of equality and diversity.
 To identify the impact of gender pay gap upon business performance.
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 To determine the challenges faced by company to create inclusive work culture for
employees.
 To recommend different strategies in order to minimize the gender pay gap in Tesco.
Research questions
 What is the importance of equality and diversity?
 What are the positive and negative impact of gender pay gap upon business
performance?
 What are the challenges faced by company to create inclusive work culture for
employees?
 What are effective recommendation strategies to minimize the gender pay gap in Tesco?
Problem statement: This research study will highlight on investigating the existence of gender
pay gap in the context of retail industry. This study helps in critically evaluating the various
problem faced by the employees due to gender discrimination. This study is based on the gender
pay gap theory which helps in determining the psychology behind the wage gap between men
and women. The theory associated with the gender pay gap helps in analysing the factors which
in turn results in gender pay gap and also find recommendable strategies in order to minimize the
gender pay gap in company.
P 2. Produce a project management plan
Project management plan (PMP) is an effective strategy which is used to evaluate every
phase of the particular project (Mello, 2019). PMP includes time, cost, scope, quality, resources,
risk, communication, issues, schedule, etc. The key stages of Project management plan mainly
consists of project initiation, project planning, project execution, project monitoring, project
controlling and project closure.
The major advantage of PMP is that it helps in planning and proper execution of the plan.
It helps in defining the project in depth and helps in establishing boundaries in order to achieve
desired results. PMP is important because it helps in guiding various stakeholders of the
company and is beneficial in proper execution of the project plan.
Scope: The scope of the study is very wide as it helps in gaining wider perspective on the
equality and diversity within the workplace (Moreno and et.al., 2016). It also helps in
demonstrating the impact of discrimination and prejudice within the workplace.
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Time: The project team will take around 12 weeks to complete the particular project.
This helps in controlling the time spent on each activity.
Cost: This helps in estimating, evaluating, allocating, funding and controlling the cost of
the project. The estimated cost to carry out the particular project is £1000.
Quality: This helps in determining the acceptable level of quality by mitigating with
particular standards and policies. The researcher will cite the data and use valid references. The
team will also take feedback from the tutor which in turn helps in maintaining effective quality
of work.
Communication: This is considered to be a systematic tool which helps in
communicating with various team members with the help of questionnaire, email, telephone,
message, video conferencing, voice call, etc.
Risk: This is considered to be as an uncertain event which might hamper the performance
of the business. There are several risks associated with the project which mainly includes time
boundedness, limited resources, limited finance, etc. analysing risk helps team members in
developing plans and address the issue.
Resources: There are several resources which is required in order to carry out all the
project task in a systematic and efficient manner. Resources required to carry out the study are
human resources, financial resources, equipment, stationary, facilities, etc.
Milestone schedule
Milestone Due date Justification
Identification of aim and
objectives
11/12/2019 The team will formulate aim
and objectives and complete in
2 days before in order to take
feedback from tutor and make
necessary changes.
Research methodology 05/01/2020 This will be completed 5 days
before in order to evaluate if
the data collected is valid and
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relevant.
Data analysis 28/01/2020 Data collected will be
interpreted, analysed and
completed 6 days earlier in
order to take feedback from the
tutor and make relevant
changes.
P 3. Produce a WBS and Gantt chart.
Gantt chart
s. no. Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
1 Selection of topic 5 days Thu 11/28/19 Wed 12/4/19
2 Developing research aim and
objectives 7 days Thu 12/5/19 Fri 12/13/19 1
3 brief plan development 5 days Mon
12/16/19 Fri 12/20/19 1,2
4 Research methods selection 15 days Mon
12/23/19 Fri 1/10/20 3
5 Preparing questionnaire 10 days Mon 1/13/20 Fri 1/24/20 4
6 Sending questionnaire for data
collection 8 days Mon
12/23/19 Wed 1/1/20 3
7 Recording data set in a
structured format 9 days Thu 1/2/20 Tue 1/14/20 6
8 Interpreting gathered data set 15 days Wed 1/15/20 Tue 2/4/20 7
9 Concluding findings and
recommending solutions 12 days Wed 2/5/20 Thu 2/20/20 8
10 Taking feedback 4 days Fri 2/21/20 Wed 2/26/20 9
11 Doing changes as per the
feedback provided 2 days Thu 2/27/20 Fri 2/28/20 10
12 Final submission 1 day Mon 3/2/20 Mon 3/2/20 11
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Work breakdown structure
It is a project deliverable which tends to focus on organizing the hierarchical
decomposition of work into manageable actions.
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LO 2
P 4. Small scale research including primary and secondary methods
Secondary Research: Literature Review
Theme 1: “ Gender Pay Gap”
Gender pay gap is the average difference in the wages and remuneration of man and
women in the organization. O'Neill (2019) explains that Women are the gender which is always
considered as a gender which is paid less as compare to the men. At the same time author explain
that providing the equal wages to all the gender in the organization always help the organization
in promoting the good name of the company in the market.
“Impact of gender pay gap upon business performance”
Gender pay gap is the difference between the remuneration for the men and the female in
the organization. Gender pay gap used to create the variety of the factor in the organization
which generally used to impact the business. Guerra-Santin and Tweed (2015) has a opinion that
discrimination and uncertainty are the two thing which generally occur in the workplace due to
the gender pay gap at the workplace. As women in the workplace always desire for the same
amount of the pay for the services which they are rendering in the organization. This eventually
affects has the negative impact on the working environment of the organization.
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Mello (2019) highlights the fact that the women used to have better mind planning skills.
This skill includes the patience and observation skill. This eventually creates the situation of the
uncertainty among the employee in the organization. At the other end Meyers, Gamst and
Guarino, (2016) has a opinion that Gender pay gap also used to lower down the confidence level
and the motivation level of the women employee in the organization. As all the employee in the
organization used to work for earning the good amount of the wages but the activities like
gender pay gap used to have the very bad impact on the morale of the women employee which
generally used to impact the confidence and morale of the business.
Theme 3: “Challenges faced by company to create inclusive work culture for employees”
Inclusive culture is the culture in the organization where there is a sort of respect, equity
and positive recognition of different culture. All the organization used to make the variety of the
efforts to introduce the inclusive working culture in the organization but used to face the variety
of the issue in the same. Moreno and et.al., (2016) highlights that the communication issue is
one of the common issue which is faced as different department in the organization always find it
difficult to understand the other department in the organization. Manetti and et.al (2015)
highlights that the cultural difference is the another issue which is faced by the organization at
the time of implementing the inclusive working culture as in the organization all the employee
used to belong to different culture and has different sort of the preference in the organization.
Research Methodology
Research methodology is a technique that identifies and analyse the respective research
based topic.
Research Philosophy:-
It is the way of gathering and analysing the data with respect to the phenomenon. There
are two types of research philosophy that is Positivism and interpretivism. In Positivism the
collected data is quantitative in nature that is, data collection is done with the help of survey,
structured questionnaires etc (Saunders And et.al., 2015). On the other side in interpretivism, the
qualitative data is been collected with the help of unstructured interviews, by observation etc. For
the present study, The interpretivism research philosophy was used as data collected was
qualitative in nature and through this, researcher may easily attain the aim i.e. To investigate the
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existence of gender pay gap in the context of retail industry and also conduct the research in
more precise manner.
Research design:-
It is a technique that helps the researcher to have different components of research
altogether into a logical form with the help of which research based problems can be handled
efficiently. There are two types of research design that is descriptive and exploratory. In
Exploratory research, different online survey where open ended questions are asked by the
researcher. On the other side, descriptive research is quantitative in nature and bulk of online
surveys are conducted and these are usually structured and preplanned in design. For the present
study, researcher used descriptive design in order to identify the opinion and behaviour of people
and also attain the aim and answer the research question as well (Meyers, Gamst and Guarino,
2016).
Research Approach:-
It is a plan having different steps and assumptions with respective to data collection and
its analyses. There are two types of research approach that is inductive and deductive. In
deductive research, a set of hypotheses is been formed that will be accepted and rejected during
the research and in inductive no hypotheses is formulated as aim and objectives are required to
achieve. For the present research, inductive approach is been used as no hypotheses was
formulated and the respective aim and objectives were achieved, in order to present the research
in more precise manner.
Data collection:-
It is a process with the help of which important information from relevant sources is been
calculated for finding the solutions of different problems and evaluating the outcomes with
respect to the research. There are two methods to collect the data that is primary and secondary
method. For the present study, data is collected with the help of primary method that is the help
of questionnaires and for secondary data collection methods, researcher uses different books and
journals in order to determine that gender gap is the issue of equality and diversity in the
working area (Guerra-Santin and Tweed, 2015).
Sampling:-
It is the group of people or items from a large population that is taken a sample for
measurement. There are two types of methods for sampling that is random and purposive
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sampling. For the present report, random sampling method was used where 20 employees of
Tesco were selected that helps to identify their view point related to gender pay gap.
Data analysis:-
It is a process of analysing the data that is collected by observing the samples and there
are various analytical and statistical tools that are been used for the same. For the present report,
researcher chooses thematic data analysis in which different graphs and data are presented that
helps to evaluated the data given by the working employees of Tesco and accordingly, analysed
whether equality and diversity is there in its work culture (Quinlan and et.al., 2019).
Ethical consideration:-
There are some values that the researcher have to follow in order to conduct the research
ethically. Researcher has to talk with the managers of Tesco and have to take permission in order
to conduct the research and asking questions from the working employees. It is also the
responsibility of the researcher, not to disclose the data and keep it safe.
LO 3
P 5. Present finding and data using appropriate tools and techniques
Theme 1: Maximum number of employees have been working for 12 to 24 years in the
company.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
0 to 6 years 3 15%
6 to 12 years 4 20%
12 to 24 years 8 40%
More than 24 years 5 25%
TOTAL 20 100%
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15.00%
20.00%
40.00%
25.00%
0 to 6 years
6 to 12 years
12 to 24 years
More than 24 years
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
related with equality and diversity within workplace. It has been analysed that out of the total
pool of 20 employees, 13 employees are working in the organization from more than 12 year in
the organization. So, it can be said that there is the employee in the organization which will
understand the different policy or the change which will be brought in the organization. As this
employee has built a good trust with the company. Specifically, out of the total pool of 20
employee 3 employee are having 0-6-year experience, 4 are having 6-12 year, 8 are having 12-24
and 5 are having more than 24 year.
Theme 2: Highly agreed, equality and diversity within the workplace is important for higher
performance and productivity.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Agreed 4 20%
Highly agreed 6 30%
Disagreed 3 15%
Highly disagreed 2 10%
Neutral 5 25%
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TOTAL 20 100%
20.00%
30.00%
15.00%
10.00%
25.00%
Agreed
Highly agreed
Disagreed
Highly disagreed
Neutral
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
company related with equality and diversity within workplace. It has been analysed that out of
the total pool of 20 employee 10 of the employee are in the positive favour, 5 are neutral and 5
are against the statement. It can be said that there is no clear result of the survey but it can be said
that equality and diversity help the organization in improving the performance of the
organization. Remaining 5 who are in the negative side 3 are having opinion of disagree and 2
are highly disagree.
Theme 3: Yes, Tesco plc reduce gender pay gap by promoting equality and diversity
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Yes 14 70%
No 2 10%
Maybe 4 20%
TOTAL 20 100%
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Yes No Maybe
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
70.00%
10.00%
20.00%
% OF RESPONDENTS
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco it is
analysed that majority of the respondents are in favour that Tesco plc promote the equality and
diversity in the organization and as a result, it reduce the gender pay gap , such that out of the
total 20 employee 14 are having the opinion of yes, 2 are having the opinion of no and only 4
respondent are in the favour of may be as a answer. As almost 70 percent of the employee are in
the positive side it can be said that Tesco used to perform the variety of the activity in the
organization to reduce the gender pay gap within working area.
Theme 4: Hiring men and women of various background and culture, is the most effective
measure to reduce the gender pay gap within the workplace.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Creating equal opportunity
policy
4 20%
Identification and preventing
unconscious biasses and
discrimination.
3 15%
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Hiring men and women of
various background and
culture.
7 35%
Educating and giving training
to employees related with
equality and diversity.
6 30%
TOTAL 20 100%
20.00%
15.00%
35.00%
30.00% Creating equal opportunity
policy
Identification and preventing
unconscious biasses and
discrimination.
Hiring employees of various
background and culture.
Educating and giving training
to employees related with
equality and diversity.
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco it is
analysed that hiring men and women as a worker of Tesco who belongs to various background
in the organization is one of the effective measure to promote the equality and diversity in the
organization and reduce the gender pay gap. As out of the 20 respondent 7 are in the favour of
same. Analysing the data also explain that training and education is the another way through
which equality and diversity can be promoted. As 6 respondent are in the favour of the same.
Remaining respondent 4 and 3 are in the favour of Creating equal opportunity policy and
Identification and preventing unconscious biasses and discrimination respectively.
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Theme 5: Different culture, language and nationality, is the most common factors of
discrimination and prejudice within the organization.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Race and religion 5 25%
Gender, age and sexual
orientation
4 20%
Status and socio- economic
factors
3 15%
Different culture, language and
nationality
8 40%
TOTAL 20 100%
25.00%
20.00%
15.00%
40.00% Race and religion
Gender, age and sexual
orientation
Status and socio- economic
factors
Different culture, language and
nationality
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
related with equality and diversity within workplace. Data collected give the idea that different
culture, language and nationality is one of the factor in the organization which used to create the
discrimination and prejudice within the organization as out of the total respondent 8 are in the
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favour of the same. Remaining respondent 5, 4 and 3 are in the favour of Race and religion,
Gender, age and sexual orientation and Status and socio- economic factors respectively.
Therefore, it is analysed that due to gender and age, manager of retail sector also bias employees
and as a result, their pay got affected.
Theme 6: Highly agreed, by reducing gender pay gap within workplace helps in creating
inclusive culture for individuals which will thrive people of all background and culture.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Agreed 5 25%
Highly agreed 8 40%
Disagreed 2 10%
Highly disagreed 1 5%
Neutral 4 20%
TOTAL 20 100%
25.00%
40.00%
10.00%
5.00%
20.00%
Agreed
Highly agreed
Disagreed
Highly disagreed
Neutral
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
company related with equality and diversity within workplace. The data collected shows that by
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focusing on reducing gender pay gap in the organization positively help the company to building
a good culture in the organization as out of the total 20 respondent 13 are in the favour of the
positive side. As 8 are highly agree, 5 are disagree. Out of the remaining respondent 3 are in
against the statement, 2 are disagree, 1 highly disagree and 4 are with the opinion of neutral.
Theme 7: Cultural and language differences and gender inequality, is the most common
challenge faced by company to create inclusive work culture and reduce gender pay gap for
employees.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Cultural and language
differences
6 30%
Mental and physical disability 5 25%
Generation gap 3 15%
Gender inequality 6 30%
TOTAL 20 100%
30.00%
25.00% 15.00%
30.00%
Cultural and language
differences
Mental and physical disability
Generation gap
Gender inequality
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Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
related with equality and diversity within workplace. The data collected resulted in the fact that
the maximum of the respondent that is 30 % agreed to the fact that cultural and language
difference is the major challenge faced by the company. However, with same percentage that is
30% of the respondent sought that gender inequality is also a major challenge faced by the
company in creating inclusive work culture and reduce gender pay gap for the employees. It is
so because Tesco have both men and women as a worker but it sometimes discriminate people
on the basis of gender inequality. This is majorly because of the fact that the employees come
from different areas of the country and thus they are different in culture. However, rest of the
participants agreed to the mental and physical disability and generation gap as a challenge
individually.
Theme 8: Majority of the respondents are in favour that there are many causes of gender pay
gap
PARTICULARS
NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF
RESPONDENTS
Women tend to have and care for children 4 20.00%
Women tend to work part time 3 15.00%
Perception that women cannot perform the
same work as men do 2 10.00%
Barriers that stop women advancing further in
their profession 3 15.00%
All of these 8 40.00%
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Interpretation: From the above, It has been interpreted that majority of the respondents
are in favour that there are various causes of gender gap pay in the retail sector such that out of
20 respondents, 4 of them state that Women tend to have and care for children is the major cause
while, 3 of them state that Women tend to work part time is consider a major cause while, 2 of
the says that Perception that women cannot perform the same work as men do is highly increases
this gap. But majority of them state that these all are consider the major cause of gender pay gap
that affect the brand image of the Tesco in the market.
Theme 9: Yes, Tesco plc comply with the Equality act, 2010 UK.
PARTICULARS NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
% OF RESPONDENTS
Yes 15 75%
No 2 10%
Maybe 3 15%
TOTAL 20 100%
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4
3
2 3
8 Women tend to have and care
for children
Women tend to work part time
Perception that women cannot
perform the same work as men
do
Barriers that stop women
advancing further in their
profession
All of these

Yes No Maybe
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8 75.00%
10.00%
15.00%
% OF RESPONDENTS
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
related with equality and diversity within workplace. Maximum of the participants that is 75 %
assents with the fact that yes, the company complies with all the requirements of the Equality act,
2010 UK, such that it equally pay to their employees and also pay extra when they do overtime.
This is majorly because of the reason that the company takes into the consideration the
requirements of the act and provides for the equal opportunities for all the employees including
men and women. But some respondent is not sure that whether the company aligns with the act
or not which is 15 %. However, the rest of the participants disagreed to the fact.
Theme 10: The effects of discrimination and prejudice on the workers of the organization.
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
related with equality and diversity within workplace. As agreed by the maximum participants the
major effect of the discrimination and prejudice on the employees of the company will be very
negative. This is majorly because of the reason that the employees which are being discriminated
will feel bad and left out within the organization. Also, some of the participants states that the
major impact is on the performance of the workers.
Theme 11: Effective recommendation strategies to reduce gender gap pay
Interpretation: From the above conducted research from 20 employees of the Tesco
related with equality and diversity within workplace. As articulated by some respondent training
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must be an effective strategy for creating work environment free form discrimination in which
they will be satisfied with the present working environment. This is because of the reason that
this will educate the employee how to treat the other employees so that they work effectively and
productively. Some states that there should be no discrimination between men and women at the
time of payment because Tesco have efficient working staff members which includes both men
and women. That is why, every employee clearly knows that what they have to do then there will
not be any discrimination relating to work as every employee knows that what work they have to
and how much others have.
P 6. Recommendation as outcomes of data analysis and findings
As per above analysed report, it has been evaluated that diversity and equality is very
essential at workplace as it help organization to create inclusive cultures for their employees free
from favouritism and dissatisfaction which is beneficial for staff and company growth. Further,
the company also take initiatives in order to reduce gender pay gap such that its tart establishing
a culture of trust that further assist to strengthen the entire economy. Moreover, by reducing
gender pay gap makes organization able to retain their talented and skilled people for longer in
business that help to enhance productivity as well as support to gain competitive advantages.
When management promote diversity and equality in workplace, it allows business to thrive and
employees of all backgrounds will come together and help in achieving longer success within
marketplace during competitive environment. It has been concluded that researcher in this report,
uses different type of methods in order to gather essential data related to chosen topic which help
to provide better results and support them to draw appropriate findings with effective conclusion.
By using varied types of research methods researcher acquire more knowledge which make them
able to understand the importance of diversity and equality in work area. Furthermore, with the
help of using all the components of project management plan researcher is able to deliver quality
of work and get success with the help of achieving all the activities on time without creating
confusion.
Hence, this report has been measuring some challenges and difficulties faced by Tesco to
create inclusive work culture within workplace for all its worker. Therefore, some suggestions or
recommendations which researcher has been measured for firm in term of creating inclusive
culture that enhance performance as well as productivity of applicants.
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 For developing and making inclusive work culture in workplace organization must
reduce language and cultural differences with the help to providing equal training which
to make people able to understand different languages (Manetti and et.al., 2015). It also
allows staff members to communicate together and develop better understanding of
varied culture.
 For reducing the gender inequality at workplace that directly affect ability of people for
performing task, company should provide career growth opportunities to men and women
working in their business for longer. They do not make any differences between male and
female applicants, management give their support to all the existing and current workers
equally without discrimination. Also pay equal amount to all men and women without
any discrimination. Moreover, gender pay gap affects people living and working
experience negatively, as it is one of the reasons behind high employee turnover that
decrease the profitability and revenue of firm. Leaders and manager treat candidates
equally and fairly without taking side of another specific person in workplace, they must
enhance the motivational level of women along with men worker in workplace that help
to create inclusive culture.
 The another measure which Tesco may taken to reduce gender gap that is equal pay, it is
allowed staff to feel happy and work effectively within inclusive culture. It helps to
improve the workers retention and reduce rate of employee turn over more than before.
Equal pay is one of the best method, which company adopt because it supports to attract
the new talent people towards specific job role in business.
LO 4
P 7. Reflection on own learning and performance
While conducting the present research, an effective plan and process was implemented by
me and that worked effectively in order to complete the respective research. This research
project helped me in developing my personal and professional skills. For achieving my decided
objectives with respect to the given project, I worked hard and used my key skills. This helped
me in enhancing my personal skills and also developed by professional skills as I communicated
to many working employees and learned new things out of them. This research project also
helped me in understanding the importance of equality and diversity at a work place and how an
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organisation can develop the same. During the research I also faced many problems with respect
to data collection and its interpretation. There were many employees who were neutral towards
the questions asked and I become tough for me to analyse their point of view. However, I put my
efforts and that resulted in achievement of my aims and objectives. The best part of the research
is that, it gave me a new experience to understand the corporate world and the issues that they
face in implementing equality and diversity. The skills that I developed like communication
skills, interpersonal skills, time management skills etc. will be helping me in may near future
projects and it will also be helpful in my professional development.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it is been concluded that it is very important for the business to
implement the ways to reduce the gender pay gap at the work place. Report concluded that the
project management plan helps the business to have an outlet about the associated cost, scope,
time etc. while conducting the research. Report further concluded that the data collected was
qualitative in nature and a sample size of 20 working employees in Tesco were chosen in order
to analyse the equality and diversity at quoted firm. Report concluded that employees at Tesco
thinks that the company is having equality and diversity at the workplace but somehow,
improvements are required to make it more effective.
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APPENDIX
QUESTIONNAIRE
1. For how long you have been employed in this company?
 0 to 6 years
 6 to 12 years
 12 to 24 years
 More than 24 years
2. Do you agree, equality and diversity within the workplace is important for higher
performance and productivity?
 Agreed
 Highly agreed
 Disagreed
 Highly disagreed
 Neutral
3. According to you, does your company reduce gender pay gap by promoting equality and
diversity?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe
4. According to you, what is the most effective measure to promote equality and diversity and
reduce the gender pay gap within the workplace?
 Creating equal opportunity policy
 Identification and preventing unconscious biasses and discrimination.
 Hiring employees of various background and culture.
 Educating and giving training to employees related with equality and diversity
5. According to you, what is the most common factors of discrimination and prejudice within
the organization related to reduce the gender pay gap ?
 Race and religion
 Gender, age and sexual orientation
 Status and socio- economic factors
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 Different culture, language and nationality
6. Do you agree, by reducing gender pay gap within workplace helps in creating inclusive
culture for individuals which will thrive people of all background and culture?
 Agreed
 Highly agreed
 Disagreed
 Highly disagreed
 Neutral
7. What are the challenges faced by company to create inclusive work culture and reduce gender
pay gap for employees?
 Cultural and language differences
 Mental and physical disability
 Generation gap
 Gender inequality
8. According to you what is the main cause of gender pay gap in retail sector?
 Women tend to have and care for children
 Women tend to work part time
 Perception that women cannot perform the same work as men do
 Barriers that stop women advancing further in their profession
 All of these
9. Does your company comply with the Equality act, 2010 UK?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe
10. According to you what are the effects of discrimination and prejudice on the workers of the
organization?
11. What do you believe could be major solution to the gender pay gap ?
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