Equality and Diversity in Workplace

This report focuses on the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace, specifically in the context of gender diversity in management and leadership. It explores the positive and negative impacts of gender diversity, the benefits of equality in management and leadership, and provides recommendations for eradicating gender inequality and diversity in leadership and management. The report is based on a case study of Grains bar hotel in the UK.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN
WORKPLACE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Research proposal...................................................................................................................3
P2 Research methods with uses of primary and secondary research methods............................5
M1 Rationale................................................................................................................................7
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................8
P3 Primary and secondary research ............................................................................................8
P4 Data analysis and findings....................................................................................................11
M2..............................................................................................................................................20
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................21
P5...............................................................................................................................................21
M3..............................................................................................................................................21
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................21
P6 Reflection..............................................................................................................................21
P7 Recommendation..................................................................................................................21
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

INTRODUCTION
Equality is all about assuring people working in firm has get fair and same
opportunity to grow their career. It means that no one will treat discriminated and
differently against because of their feature and characteristics. Along with this diversity
is about taking account of divergence between team of individuals and people, placing
positive values on those differences. Equality and diversity is the key elements business
success, without these two components the growth and success of company is not
possible.
The current report is based on Grains bar hotel, it is one of the best hotel in
Oldham in UK. It is set in 9 acres of farm land, they offer warm friendly rooms and
atmospheres to its consumers with free Wi-Fi services. Company is situated around
beautiful Pennines, on boarder of Yorkshire and Lancashire, along with Pennine way on
doorstop. Here, people get fantastic waling, hiking and cycling routes that enhance their
travel experience much better than before. Organization focus on making plan for
groups and singles as well such as walking & navigational trips.
I am playing role as Assistant to human resource manager in this research where
I have to conduct whole investigation regarding the topic. My task is to produce
research proposal mainly focusing on equality and diversity within Morrison.
LO 1
P1 Research proposal.
Aims:
To examine the impact of gender diversity in management and leadership in the
context of service sector. A case study on “Grains bar hotel”.
Objectives:
 To realize conception of gender diversity and equality at workplace.
 To investigate negative as well as positive impact of gender diversity in
leadership and management.
 To determine the benefit with equality in management and leadership to
organization.
 To recommanded the ways for eradicate negative impact of gender inequality
and diversity in leadership and management.

Questions:
 What is realize conception of gender diversity and equality at workplace?
 What are impact of gender diversity in leadership and management?
 What benefit with equality in management and leadership to organization?
 What you are recommanded ways to grow and eradicate negative impact of
gender inequality and diversity in leadership and management?
Literature review:
As per the view of Klein (2016) equality and diversity is promoted the equality
which is creates various opportunity for each and all, with the help of the diversity,
giving chance to every individual for achieving their potential and free from any
discrimination. This creates more effectiveness for business to promote equality and
diversity at workplace. This is very important think. On the other side, Flynn, Haynes
and Kilgour (2017) stated that, this help to achieve and build employees loyalty towards
company. With the help of these employees are behaved positive for work and make
higher growth of business by gaining equal opportunity at workplace. It is the legal
obligation to protect against discrimination. This cam be against of person with any
disability and age factors. This is very important for organization to manage work with
managing proper equality and providing equal opportunity to all employees are more
helpful for growth of company.
Perryman, Fernando and Tripathy (2016) cited that the gender inequality is gives
negative impact on performance of employees because they think is to complete effect.
This creates negative impact because employees are not achieved equal opportunity
with the employer for work in order to perform their role in leadership and management.
As per that Noland, Moran and Kotschwar (2016) stated that, this gives positive impact
on performance of employees in leadership and management because through that
employees are achieved more growth at the workplace by managing work in effective
manner by gaining equal chance to perform their task. This plays a very important and
effective role at organization which is suggested that gender diverse teams perform
better than the single gender team with the various reasons such as men and woman
have different viewpoints, ideas and market insights.

According to Gotsis and Grimani (2016) equality and diversity in leadership and
management is more beneficial for organization in order to create positive working
environment at workplace. They said that this highly contribute to wider organizational
changes where greater emphasis is given to policy delivery. This creates more
effectiveness for organization because through that employees are always ready to give
hard contribution in the wider organization changes. On the other side, Randel and et.al.
(2018) cited that, this helping to manage complexity and uncertainty. As well as
complete the stronger planning and communication, with taking best decision recorded
and monitored roles and responsibilities articulated the risk identified and managed and
development made explicit.
P2 Research methods with uses of primary and secondary research methods.
Saunders research onion-
This research method illustrates phases included in development of research
task, the layers of onion give in depth description of stages of research procedure
(Iovino and Tsitsianis, 2019).
Research philosophy-
It considers with the set of values which are refers nature of realness being
analysed, research philosophy is underlying description of nature of knowledge (Michel,
2019). It differs on aim of research that is gender equality in management and
leadership under equality and diversity in within organization. Research used
interpretivism research philosophy in this research, it is used as data gathering was
qualitative in nature.
Research approach-
Inductive and deductive is the two kinds of research approach, in this study
researcher uses inductive research method, that allow creating theory more than adopt
pre-existing one as in deductive. For the current research, inductive is the best method
because it is been used no hypotheses.
Research strategies-
It described how researcher lean to carry out their work, research strategies
includes experimental research, case study research, systematic literature review,
surveys and interviews (Mayer, 2015). In this research, researcher conduct survey

make questionnaire regarding chosen topic that help to give suitable and relevant
information.
Research choice-
It is the fourth level of research onion, which is divided into three categories,
mono, multi and mixed method. Researcher in this study used mono method, because
they want to collect one kind of information, that is either qualitative or quantitative
methodology.
Research time horizon-
It refers to needed time for accomplishing of project work, research time horizon
which is specified in research onion where longitudinal and cross-sectional is available.
The researcher of this study, chose cross-sectional time horizon because the whole
investigation is focusing on specific phenomenon at particular time.
Data analysis and collection-
It is the last or sixth layer of research onion, where researcher is able to gathered
data related to chosen topic with help of using appropriate methods. Primary and
secondary data collection approaches is used by researcher in this study, that help of
find out the impact on gender equality in management and leadership.
The data is analysed through thematic method in which various graphs and
information is presented that help to determine data provided by working workers of
Grains bar hotel.
Qualitative research method-
In this research qualitative method is also used that help of provide better
information and data related to topic, it supports to draw conclusion with proper findings.
Under this approach, different kinds of research methods will used that is.
Sampling-
Purposive and random are the two types of sampling which chosen by
researcher in this study according to work. They chose random sampling method,
where 30 workers of Grains bar hotel selected in order to get information about impacts
of gender equality in management & leadership within company.

M1 Rationale
Gender quality and diversity in workplace is the key components that contribute
in order to improve the performance of business. Gender equality in management and
leadership provide several benefits that enhance the productivity of workers and also
support to create positive environment in work area. The main reason for choosing
above research question is to find out the benefits and evaluate the importance of
gender equality within organization.
Advantages and disadvantage of each research method-
As researcher, I chose interpretivism research philosophy instead of positivism
because it is associated with broad level of reliability and validity, the data is tends to be
honest and trustworthy, but it relates to subjective nature of this method and heavily
affected by personal values.
I chose inductive research approach because it helps me to get to work with
probabilities, on the other hand this method have one disadvantage that is limited in
scope as well as inaccurate inferences.
With the help of survey, I was able to get high level of common abilities in
representing wider population. The disadvantage of this method is that it cannot be
changed all throughout the procedure of data collection.
Mono method provide benefit to get proper results, it helps to maintain validity
and reliability in research study. On the other side, implementing and planning one
approach by drawing on conclusion and findings of another method provide to be
difficult as always.
Cross-sectional research time horizon support to captures particular point in time,
but this method will not be used to examine behaviour over period.
With the help of using primary and secondary data collection methods, I am able
to collect relevant and detailed information and interpretate accordingly without making
assumptions. But due to availability of number of sources, these methods consume a lot
of time and efforts.
Through theoretical freedom, thematic data analysis approach gives highly
flexible method that is modified for needs of this research. But the flexibility of this

method leads to inconsistency as well as lack of coherences when I develop themes
that derived from research information or topic.
I chose random sampling instead of purposive, because I can select my sample
from large population of interest. But when I want to get additional knowledge regarding
my research the possibility is low with this method.
LO 2
P3 Primary and secondary research
Questionnaire-
 For how long you have been worked in Grains bar hotel?
◦ 0 to 5 years
◦ 5 to 11 years
◦ 11 to 23 years
◦ More than 23 years
 Do you agree, gender equality and diversity at workplace is essential for
growth and success of business?
◦ Agreed
◦ Disagreed
◦ Neutral
 According to you, does your hotel provide gender equality in management
and leadership?
◦ Yes
◦ No
 According to you, what are the best approaches to promote gender
equality in leadership and management within workplace?
◦ Creating inclusive gender diverse workplace
◦ Have fair compensation practices
◦ Recruiting people of different culture and background
 According to you, what are the positive impact of gender diversity in
leadership and management?
◦ Enhance productivity
◦ Increase motivational level

◦ Create positive work culture
 Do you agree, that equality in management and leadership within company
is beneficial?
◦ Agreed
◦ Highly agreed
◦ Disagreed
◦ Highly disagreed
◦ Neutral
 What are the barriers faced by Grains bar hotel to create gender equality in
management & leadership in workplace?
◦ Generation gap
◦ Different perspectives
◦ Language differences
 According to you what are the main reason of gender inequality in
company?
◦ Poor knowledge or educational level
◦ Gender pay gap
◦ Perception that female cannot be able to perform similar as men do
 According to you what are the negative affect of gender inequality and
diversity in workplace?
 What do you think could be the major measure to reduce gender inequality
in leadership as well as management?
Literature review-
Conception of gender Diversity & equality at workplace-
As per view of Sharma, (2016) gender diversity and equality is fair or equitable
presentation of individual as per genders, which is refers equitable ration of women as
well as mean, include people of non binary genders as well. Both elements are quite
beneficial for business, management has to implement and promote gender diversity
and equality in workplace. On the other side, Wrench, (2016) contradict that gender
equality and diversity is the concept of providing and offering same opportunities to
workers, that help to grow their professional as well as personal career.

Impact of gender diversity in management and leadership-
According to Kakabadse and et.al., (2015) gender diversity in management and
leadership to make positive impact on business. It helps of promoting gender diversity in
workplace, management can improve the performance of all workers better than single
gender group. On the other side Opstrup and Villadsen, (2015) stated that without
promoting gender diversity, organization cannot be able to sustain for longer within
hospitality sector. It made negative impact on performance as well as productivity of
business and also upon their staff.
Advantage with equality in leadership and management to company-
In view point of Adriaanse and Claringbould, (2016) throughout implementing and
promoting equality in management and leadership, organization gain benefits to create
positive and innovative work culture that help to increase profitability rather than before.
Kuhlmann and et.al., (2017) elucidated that equality in management & leadership help
in managing complexity, that reduce risk as failure.
Comparison between secondary and primary research methods-
As compare to primary research approach, secondary is the better in term of cost
because the availability of sources help to find out information related to subject, while
in primary research the procedure of collecting data is time-consuming activity.
In term of access, secondary method is the best rather than primary research
because the access is obtained easily, it comes with flexibility of time and place.
Primary research is as compare to secondary because it promotes aims of
investigation and support values needed for collective work.
P4 Data analysis and findings
Theme 1:Number of workers have been worked in Grains bar hotel for 11 to 23
years.
0 to 5 years 5
5 to 11 years 7
11 to 23 years 8
More than 23 years 10

Interpretation- The above conducted investigation from 30 workers of Grains
bar hotel related to gender equality in workplace. It has been examined that out of sum
pool of 30 staff members, 13 workers are working in company from more than 11 year
in firm. This description define that there are individuals within business that understand
different change and rules which will be implemented in workplace. Out of 30
employees, 5 worker are having experience of 0-5 years, 7 workers have experience of
5-11 years, 8 have experience of 11-23 years and 10 are having high experience of
work more than 23 years.
Theme 2: Do you agree, gender equality and diversity at workplace is essential
for growth and success of business?
Agreed 22
Disagreed 5
Neutral 3

Interpretation- From above conducted investigation from 30 staff members of
Grains bar hotel, attendant to the gender diversity in management and leadership at
workplace. It has been determined that out of 30, 22 of people in favour with the this
stated graph statement, they are agreed that gender diversity and equality in company
is important for long term success of organization. It can be said there is no clear
outcomes of investigation but it can be analysed that gender diversity and equality is
helpful and significance for firm as it helps to improve their performance within sector.
Remaining 5 who have opinion of disagreed from above comment and 3 are having no
answer.
Theme 3: According to you, does your hotel provide gender equality in
management and leadership?
Yes 20
No 10

Interpretation- Gender equality is very important for business growth and
productivity, analysed from above conducted research. It can be said the gender
equality in management and leadership within company strengthen brand image within
marketplace effectively. Without discrimination and placing differences, gender equality
is easily promoted in organization. Out of 30 workers, of Grains bar hotel 20 are in
favour of above statement, they believe company that firm is providing gender equality
in both areas in effective manner which is quite beneficial for both employees and
business. On the other hand, 10 staff members are in negative side, they are not in
favour of this context.
Theme 4:According to you, what are the best approaches to promote gender
equality in leadership and management within workplace?
Creating inclusive gender diverse
workplace
15
Have fair compensation practices 5
Recruiting people of different culture and
background
10

Interpretation- From above conducted research from 30 members of company it
is examined that by creating inclusive gender diverse workplace organization is able to
promote gender diversity and equality in leadership and management effectively. As out
of 30 15 respondent are in side of same. Examining data from above graph explained
that by having fair compensation practices company promote gender equality in
management & leadership. As 5 participants are in favour of same. On the other hand,
out of 30, 10 respondents think that recruiting people of different culture and
background is the best method that firm can used to promote gender equality.
Theme 5: According to you, what are the positive impact of gender diversity in
leadership and management?
Enhance productivity 18
Create efficiency of company 6
Create positive work culture 6

Interpretation- from above conducted investigation is very important to
implement management and leadership as it help to reduce the differences between
men and women. Out of 30 workers, 18 are in favour of above statement, they think that
gender diversity in management and leadership will enhance the productivity. On the
other hand, 6 are in side of another think, they believe that gender diversity create high
work efficiency of business. Gender diversity in management and leadership create
positive environment or work culture within organization. As 6 respondents are in favour
of this.
Theme 6:Do you agree, that equality in management and leadership within
company is beneficial?
Agreed 9
Highly agreed 10
Disagreed 5
Highly disagreed 4
Neutral 2

Interpretation- Data gathering shows that by centring on equality in leadership
&n management within company positively help firm to increase profit margin and build
good culture. As out of 30, 9 respondents are in favour of positive side, they are agreed
from above statement. 10 participants are highly agreed of same. But on the other
hand, 5 respondent are disagreed along with this 4 are highly disagreed in context of
benefits gaining by company through equality in management and leadership at
workplace. Out of 30, 2 are with view point of neutral.
Theme 7: What are the barriers faced by Grains bar hotel to create gender
equality in management & leadership in workplace?
Generation gap 10
Different perspectives 8
Language differences 12

Interpretation- From above conducted research by researcher, it has been
analysed that generation gap is the biggest barrier that company faced while creating
gender equality in management and leadership at workplace. As 10 are in favour of
same. When the perspectives of workers is different, it creates difficulties to implement
gender equality in leadership & management at workplace. As 8 are in side of same. On
the other hand, out of 30, 12 respondents are in favour of language differences, they
think that it is one of the biggest challenge for company that create barrier for creating
gender equality in both areas.
Theme 8: According to you what are the main reason of gender inequality in
company?
Interpretation-
Poor knowledge or educational level 10
Gender pay gap 8
Perception that female cannot be able to
perform similar as men do
12

Interpretation- Lack of knowledge and poor educational level is the main reason
behind gender inequality in organization. As 10 are in favour of same. Gender pay gap
is creates difference betwixt remuneration for women and men who are working in hotel
for long. It makes negative impact on productivity and reason of gender inequality in
workplace. As 8 are in side of same. On the other side, various people in society have
perception that women are not able to perform same work as men do, this kind of
thinking is the main reason according to 12 respondents regarding gender inequality in
firm.
Theme 9:According to you what are the negative affect of gender inequality and
diversity in workplace?
Decrease work efficiency 20
High employee turn over 10

Interpretation- out of 30, 20 respondents think that gender inequality and
diversity make negative impact on business as it decreases the working efficiency of
worker. On the other hand, 10 respondent are in favour of another reason. According to
them gender inequality and diversity take place as high employee turnover.
Theme 10: What do you think could be the major measure to reduce gender
inequality in leadership as well as management?
Create Discrimination free environment 20
Pay wages equally 10

Interpretation- out of 30, 20 respondent think that by creating discrimination free
environment in workplace, company can reduce gender difference in leadership and
management effectively. On the other hand, 10 respondents have different view point
they think that organization have to pay equal wages to men and women workers.
Findings-
From above interpretation it has been summarized that gender equality in
management and leadership is very essential, as it help to increase profit margin,
improve performance and work efficiencies of workers in effective manner. In order to
implement and promote gender diversity and equality company used relevant and
appropriate measure.
M2.
Thematic data analysis-
It allows researcher with various methodological background, to occupy in such
kind of analysis (Michel, 2019). It saves time and efforts, thematic does not need
technological knowledge and detailed knowledge of other qualitative methods, it
provides more available form of analysis.
The limitations of thematic analysis of data become more apparent when
focusing in context of other data collection approaches, while this method is flexible, it
leads to more non uniformity when researcher develop themes.
Reliability is the major concern due to wider variety of interpretations from
various researchers, this method miss variating data.
Secondary and primary method of data collection-
Secondary data gathering approach is the best way or method used by
researcher in this study that help to save time. In context of this method, data and
information some time may not be accurate. The available information on secondary
approach is not be same at all the time as required by researcher.
Along with this, primary data approach have relevant and original information
relate to topic of research study so the level of accuracy is high.
To get the better results by using primary method, researcher need to spend a lot
of time so it can be said that this approach is time-consuming because it includes
conducting interviews, observation and other things.

LO 3
P5
Covered in PPT
M3
Majority of respondents are in favour of statement that gender equality in
leadership and management is important. With the help of their point of view it is easy
for researcher to draw findings and conclusion at the end of work.
LO 4
P6 Reflection
I feel that above research is very effective for current and further investigation, by
using all above research methods I am able to collect relevant and suitable information
that help to achieve my objectives and aims within effective manner. While conducting
this research, an effective procedure and plan was developed by me that work
effectively and help to complete respective study. I used my skills and abilities, I worked
hard to get findings that help to draw correct conclusion with relevant results.
P7 Recommendation
As per above examined study, it has been analysed that gender equality in
management and leadership at workplace help in growth of company, it helps to create
positive work culture. To overcome negative impact of gender inequality in workplace,
Grains bar hotel are recommended to pay equal wages to its employees that help to
reduce the side effect of these issue.
Researcher are suggested to adopt quantitative research method which is also
beneficial for further investigation.
CONCLUSION
From above analysis, it has been concluded that gender equality in management
and leadership at workplace of Grains bar hotel increase the performance level of
workers in systematic way. With the help of data interpretation, researcher is able to
achieve the objectives of this study effectively. It has been summarized that, researcher
make questionnaire through which they gather more information about chosen topic
from workers of hotel. Each research method provide some benefits when it has been
used. By adopting and excepting the suggestions made from above, researcher will

enhance their research practices much better than before. Organization also reduce the
negative impact of gender inequality in workplace while considering the appropriate
measures.

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