Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY IN THE
WORKPLACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Aims and objectives.........................................................................................................3
P 2 Project management plan.................................................................................................4
P 3 Gantt chart and WBS........................................................................................................6
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................8
P 4 Research methodology.....................................................................................................8
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................10
P 5 Data analysis and interpretation.....................................................................................10
P 6 Recommendations..........................................................................................................18
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................19
P 7 Reflection on own learning and performance................................................................19
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................20
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................22
Questionnaire........................................................................................................................22

INTRODUCTION
Background
Equality is defined as the ability of the person to provide equal opportunities for all the
employees within the company (Thompson, 2016). It is very necessary for the company to
maintain equality and diversity at the workplace as it will increase the morale of the employees
and they will work harder. On the other hand, gender pay gap is defined as the discrimination
which is done on basis of the pay given to employees on basis of gender.
The present research is based on Sainsbury which is a chain of supermarket founded in
the year 1869 within the retail industry. The present research will work in direction of finding
reason behind the increase in the pay gap on basis of gender. Also, this research will discuss
some of the measures which Sainsbury can use in order to improve equality and diversity at the
workplace.
LO 1
P 1 Aims and objectives
Aim
“To investigate the main reason for the gap between the pay of the employee in basis of gender
within the company. A study on Sainsbury.”
Objectives
 To understand the concept of gender, pay gap within the business organization.
 To analyse the different reason for the increasing gap among the salaries and wages of
employees on basis of gender.
 To evaluate the different challenges which the company face at time of implementing the
strategies for maintaining equality and diversity.
 To suggest some strategies and measures of improving the equality among the company.
Research questions
1) What do you understand by gender pay gap?
2) What are the reasons behind the increase in the gap among males and females relating to
the wages and salaries?
3) What are the challenges faced by company in implementing equality and diversity
challenges?
4) Recommend some measures of improving equality and diversity?

Rationale
The main reason behind this research topic is to find different measures of reducing the
pay gap among the males as compared to the females within the corporate world. This is because
in this highly competitive world there is huge difference in between the males and females in
terms of the pay which they get (Ogbonna, 2015). Another reason of choosing this as a research
topic is the personal interest of the researcher. This is so because of the fact that the scholar
wants to enhance their knowledge relating to measures which can improve equality and diversity
at the workplace.
P 2 Project management plan
The project management plan is a document which outlines all the steps which are taken for the
completion of a project. This includes different phases like project initiation, planning,
execution, monitoring and controlling and in the end closure of the project. The different
elements of project management plan are as follows-
 Scope- The scope of the project is very wide as it will help the company in identifying
different ways in which it can improve the equality and diversity at the workplace. Also,
this will help other similar companies to find the different measures of reducing the
gender pay gap in the company.
 Time- This is the most essential aspect of the project management plan because of the
fact that the research needs to be completed on time (Chen, Kang and Lee, 2017). The
time required for the completion of the project and its different phases is around 11 to 12
weeks.
 Cost- This includes all the necessary expenses which are levied at time of the completion
of the project. In the project completion there occur many different expenses which
involves some or the other cost which the researcher ha to pay. For this project
completion the cost involves is approximately £1200.
 Quality- This is the most essential aspect of the completion of the project because the
research needs to be of good quality and standard. For maintaining the quality, the
researcher needs to abide by all the different laws and standards of the phases of the
project. For this the most important thing the researcher can do is to use all the reliable
and authentic sources of data (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016).

 Communication- This is also an important part of the project management plan. This is
mainly because of the fact that only researching is not enough till the result of the
research are not communicated with the intended audience. The communication is also
required at time of collecting the information from the respondents. This can be done
with the help of different communication tools like questionnaire, face- to- face
communication, messages and many other different measures.
 Resources- Also, for carrying out the research there are many different types of resources
and materials used which makes the research more useful (Wroblewski and De Micheli,
2017). The resources involved at time of project making are like human resource,
technology and related equipment, data, financial resources and many others.
 Risk- this is also an important factor of the project management plan which outlines all
the possible risk which the researcher may face in completion of the research. These risks
can be like limitation of resources, time limitation, threat of unauthentic data, security of
data and many other risks associated at time of completion of research.
Milestone schedule
Milestone Due date Justification
Identification of aim and
objectives
30/12/2019 The aims and objective will be
prepared one day in advance so
that it can be checked by the
tutor.
Research methodology 06/01/2020 This will be executed three
days before as this will help
researcher in cross checking
that whether all the research
method used are correct or not.
Data analysis 03/02/2020 The collected data will be
interpreted two days in
advance so that if there are any
loop hole they can be met
before the deadline.

P 3 Gantt chart and WBS
Gantt chart
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
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Formulation of research aim
and objective 2 days Mon 12/30/19 Tue 12/31/19
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Project management plan 3 days Wed 1/1/20 Fri 1/3/20 1
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Research methods selection 4 days Mon 1/6/20 Thu 1/9/20 2
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Formulation of questionnaire 6 days Fri 1/10/20 Fri 1/17/20 3
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Sending questionnaire for data
collection 2 days Mon 1/20/20 Tue 1/21/20 2,4
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Recording data set in a struc-
tured format 5 days Wed 1/22/20 Tue 1/28/20 5
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Interpreting gathered data set 6 days Wed 1/29/20 Wed 2/5/20 6
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Concluding findings and recom-
mending solutions 2 days Thu 2/6/20 Fri 2/7/20 7
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Formatting 3 days Mon 2/10/20 Wed 2/12/20 8
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Taking feedback 2 days Thu 2/13/20 Fri 2/14/20 9
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Doing changes as per the feed-
back provided 4 days Mon 2/17/20 Thu 2/20/20 10
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Final submission 1 day Fri 2/21/20 Fri 2/21/20 11