Impact of Sexual Harassment on Equality and Diversity at Workplace

This study evaluates the impact of sexual harassment on the operation of Aston Martin Lagonda and the obstacles faced by the organization in incorporating equality and diversity. It also recommends strategies to reduce sexual harassment in the workplace.

EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY AT
WORKPLACE

INTRODUCTION
Research aim and Objectives-
Aim-
The aim behind conducting current study is to evaluate the impact of sexual harassment
in regards to bringing equality and diversity. A study on Aston Martin Lagonda.
Objectives-

 To develop understanding about sexual harassment.
 To evaluate the impact of sexual harassment on the operation of Aston Martin Lagonda.
 To determine the different obstacles which is faced by the organization while
incorporating equality and diversity.
 To recommend strategies to Aston Martin Lagonda to reduce sexual harassment in
process of incorporating equality and diversity at workplace.
Research Question
 What do you mean by sexual harassment?
 What impact does sexual harassment used to bring on the operation of Aston Martin
Lagonda?
 What are different obstacles which is faced by the organization while incorporating
equality and diversity?
 What is the best way through which Aston Martin Lagonda can reduce sexual harassment
in process of incorporating equality and diversity at workplace?
Background of study
Human resources are one of the key element or the resources for every organization in
the today's world of globalization. As they are the one who used to carry out the different
operation of the business. It is very important for all the organization to maintain a good amount
of human resource in the organization. Equality and diversity in the organization used to play a
very crucial role in the same as it used to help the organization in building the trust among the
employee. At the same time there are many obstacles which used to be seen in the process of
incorporating diversity and equality. Sexual harassment is one of such obstacles as this concept
relate to unwelcome and inappropriate sexual remarks or physical advances in a workplace. This
report highlights the project management plan. After that the report has highlighted the research
methodology specifying different tool used in conducting the study. After that the report has
highlighted data analysis of the data collected with the help of the survey and in the end the
report has highlighted the recommendation to the organization.
Rationale
As maintaining the employee in the organization is one of the toughest task for all the
organization is a tough task to perform as amount of competition is increasing in today's era. One
of the alarming reason which is driving employee to leave the organization is sexual harassment.

This report will help the company in understanding the same as it has been find out that Aston
Martin Lagonda. has also seen some of the other activity related to the sexual harassment in the
organization.
Significance
This study will help the company in understanding the impact of the sexual harassment
and on the basis of the same can take the action to overcome the same in the long run of the
business. This research is also significant for the competitor in getting some idea about the
sexual harassment. This study will also help any other scholar in providing the basis of
information at the time they will conduct the study.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
Scope: Scope is the element which used to show haw relevant is to conduct the research
on the selected topic.. Foremost scope of the business is to accomplish the different aims and
objective. of the study. This research will help the Aston Martin Lagonda in understanding the
meaning of sexual harassment in the organization this will eventually open the scope of
understanding for organization to understand is sexual harassment is going at the workplace or
not. This research will explain the different impact which are brought by sexual harassment in
the organization. This will open up the scope for Aston Martin Lagonda to improve the
efficiency by overcoming the same impact. This research will also help Aston Martin Lagonda
in knowing the best way through which issue of sexual harassment can be overcome in regards to
bringing equality and diversity in the organization (Gog, 2015).
Cost: Cost element refers to the amount of expenditure incurred by the researcher in
accomplish the aim and objective of business. 450 pound is the cost which will be require for
Aston Martin Lagonda to conduct the research.
Communication: Communication is the element which used to describe the different
way through which the message in the company was passed. written communication and oral
communication. Oral communication was the communication are the two type of the
communication tool which is used by the scholar in communicating in the research. form which
was used at the time of discussion with the different team member in the organization, about the
query or issue faced (Künnecke, 2018). Written communication was used to communicate the
message in between the two department in the organization with the help of different tool such as

email, Skype. Visual communication was also used in the organization, in which the message
was passed with the help of the image.
Time: This element used to explain the duration of the period taken to complete the
project for Aston Martin Lagonda. This research will take minimum of 4 weeks for Aston
Martin Lagonda to get completed.
Quality: Quality element refers to the standard or the level against which the result of
something is measured. This research will also be conducted of the best quality as the
information and data which are collected to conduct the resources are collected with the best
available source. Also with the help of more than one sources. For conducting the current
research also the Aim and Objective of the research has been already set in the past on the basis
of same the end outcome of the research will be measure to find out the quality of the study
which has been conducted (Mackey and Gass, 2015).
Risk: Risk element used to show the unfavourable things which may occur in the process
of conducting the study for Aston Martin Lagonda. In conducting the study the biggest risk
which was associated was irrelevancy of the data collected and the wrong interoperation of the
data collected as outcome of the report is heavily depends on the data which has been collected.
Another risk was related to selection of the sources to collect the data as there were more than
one source available to collect the data to conduct the research for Aston Martin Lagonda.
Resources: Resources refers to the money, material, staff and assets which are used by
the organization in carrying out the result of the study. This study will also require a variety of
the resources to carry out the result of the study. Human resources are the resources which are
requires to carry out the different operation of the study. Financial resources will requirer to
purchase the different resources in the organization. Technological resources for the purpose of
communication, data storage and data interpretation (Schabenberger and Gotway, 2017).
LITERATURE REVIEW
The meaning of sexual harassment-
As per view of Drescher, (2018) sexual harassment is defined as unexpected or
unwelcome sexual advances, requests for physical or verbal activity related to sexual nature.
when either, conduct is made as condition or term of individual education, employment and
living environment in society. Sexual harassment affect mental ability and physical well-being of
person, it occurs at workplace which is not appropriate for employees well fare. It is kind of

harassment techniques that relates to unexpected behaviour or sexual nature. Fitzgerald and
Cortina, (2017) stated that sexual harassment conduct unreasonably affect individual's academic
or employment performances, it creates hostile, intimidating or offensive environment for that
person's live in university community. Unwanted sexual statements, personal attention, unwanted
sexual or physical advances are the types of sexual harassment that directly make negative
impact on mental as well as physical health of individuals. It is considered as straight violation of
employees sexual misconduct policy, sexual harassment at workplace is very serious concern for
working women and harasses person who experience it. For example, in some conditions,
harassed female risk losing their job or the opportunity for promotion when they refuse to offer
in to sexual demand of someone in high authority.
Impact of sexual harassment on operation of Aston Martin Logonda-
According to the Leskinen, Rabelo and Cortina, (2015) sexual harassment mostly impact
on women rather than male applicants in workplace. It effects business operations of
organization as increase employee turn over that decrease the productivity and profitability of
business. Most of the women workers in auto sector and companies performing under it,
experience sexual harassment. Due to harassment employees leave their jobs to avoid the
harassing environment in work area. While some women take legal action against companies or
firms which is essential. Yang and et.al., (2018) argue that sexual harassment causes
considerable damage to female as unit. It undermines female workplace management, and
reduces them to make sexual objects. Many working female will experience sexual harassment at
some point in their professional or personal careers. Sometimes, women's workers is so
traumatized by sexual harassment which they suffer major physical and emotional consequences
and often becomes unable to do their job appropriately.
Different challenges faced by company while incorporating diversity and equality-
As per view of Booth, (2016) different types of challenges or obstacles occur while
incorporating equality and diversity in workplace, in which company has to deal with all. Due to
lack of respect and acceptances organization cannot be able to implement diversity as well as
equality it effects business growth and performance within specific sector. Fundamental value
that supported to successfully diversified workplace is respect among employees and employers.
Without acceptance of beliefs among workers and diverse culture, challenges may arise that
faced by firm. Sometimes, this issue turns to hostility and even effectuate condition of violence.

Kalargyrou and Costen, (2017) elucidated that cultural and ethnic differences creates challenge
for company which they faced while incorporating diversity & equality at workplace. Problems
from ethnic as well as cultural differences is still present in work area, some person who hold
disfavour against individual who have various cultural, religious and ethnic background as their
own.
Work Break Down
Gant Chart

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research type: Research is the study which concentrate on solving the issue which is
faced by the organization by sourcing different information related to issue.. Qualitative and
Quantitative two type of research which can be used by the researcher in conducting the
research. which are generally used in the field of conducting the study. Quantitative research
type is the type in which the result are presented in the numeric form (Crane and et.al., 2019) .
Qualitative research type is the research type in which the result are presented in the non numeric
form. Scholar will be using the qualitative research type to conduct the study on the topic “To
evaluate the impact of sexual harassment in regards to bringing equality and diversity.”. Reason
behind choosing this tool was it is difficult to present the result of the study in the numeric way.
Research approach: Research approach is the plan and procedure which used to consist
of steps of broad assumption related to different process of the study conduct. inductive research
approach and deductive research approach are the two type of the research approach well known
in the field of study. Inductive approach is well known approach which looks at testing the
already made and tested theory. Deductive approach is the approach which used to look at
building the new theory in the organization with the primary data. Scholar has used the deductive
research approach to find out the outcome of the study. The reason behind the same is that it
used to provide the crucial support for the qualitative research type.
Research philosophy: Research philosophy is a belief in which explain the different
philosophy through which the data can be gather. Scholar was having option of choosing any
one research philosophy out of two namely interpretivism research philosophy and positivism
research philosophy. Interpritivsm research philosophy is philosophy which examine the differet
human interest in the study. Positivism philosophy, which look at the actual fact based on natural
phenomena and their properties and relations. Scholar will be taking the help of interpretivism
research philosophy as the topic of the study require to study the human interest involve in the
research as well. Also this used to support the qualitative research type.
Data Collection: Data collection is the process of collecting the different data for the
purpose of conducting the study. Data which is collected for the first time from the occurance
itself is the primary data. Data which is collected with the source other than the occurrence is
known as a secondary data collection tool. Scholar has taken the help of the survey on the basis
of the questionnaire which was conducted by taking different respondent. Secondary data was

collected with the data collected by looking different books and journal related to the sexual
harassment.
Data Analysis: Data analysis is the concept which looks at interpretatinf the data in such
a way that it can be easily understand. Scholar has used the thematic data analysis tool to analyse
the different data (Creswell and Creswell, 2017). Scholar has presented the data in the different
graph and table to make the data look more presentable and also has helped in understanding the
data in better way to carry out the result of the study.
Sampling: Sampling is the process of selecting the respondent from the open population.
Probabilistic and non probabilistic are two most commonly known sampling method used by the
researcher. Sampling method which used to f=give all the respondent a equal chance to get
selected is probabilistic and does not give equal opportunity to all the respondent is non
probabilistic. Scholar has taken help of simple random sampling method under the probabilistic
sampling method (Eisenhardt, Graebner and Sonenshein, 2016). For this study the sample size
which has been selected by the scholar is 20 employee of Aston Martin Lagonda.
Ethical Consideration: Scholar has taken the consent of all the respondent beforehand
itself before collecting the data. Scholar has also had make sure that high level of confidentiality
is maintained through the process of carrying out the outcome of the study. Also scholar has
make sure that all the data collected are stored at the secured place.
DATA ANALYSIS
Theme 1: “Familiarity with the concept of sexual harassment”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
YES 19 95
NO 1 5

Interpretation: The above data collected helps in interoperating that there is good
amount of awareness among the employee of the organization about the sexual harassment in the
organization as out of the total pool of of 20 respondent 19 are in the favour of yes and 1 is in the
favour of no.
Theme 2: “Any activity related to sexual harassment at workplace”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
YES 11 55
NO 9 45
Total 20 100
YES NO
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20 19
1
Column I

Interpretation: After going through the data collected through the primary data
collection tool it has been interpreted that there is no specific or one side opinion of all the
respondent as out of the total pool of 20 respondent 11 used to think that there are activity related
to sexual harassment used to take in workplace and 9 are against it but it is not that good data for
the organization.
Theme 3: “Activity which used to be seen at the workplace related to sexual harassment”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
unwanted touch 4 20
Verbal remark of sexual nature 12 60
Lustful string 3 15
All of the above 1 5
Total 20 100
YES NO
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
11
9
Column I

Interpretation: After going through the data collected it can be interpreted that there
verbal remark of sexual nature is one of the practice which is notice by majority of the
respondent in the organization. Out of 20 respondent 12 has chosen that option. Remaining 4, 1
and 3 respondent are in favour of unwanted touch, lustful string and all of above.
Theme 4: “Organization used to take the corrective action to overcome the issue related to
sexual harassment”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
YES 18 90
NO 2 10
Total 20 100
20
60
15
5
unwanted touch
Verbal remark of sexual nature
Lustful string
All of the above

Interpretation: The above data shows that out of 18 respondent are having the opinion
that organization used to take the corrective action against the different sexual harassment
activity which used to take place in the organization. This is well supported by the literature
review section as it specify that all the organization used to take the corrective action in the
organization to maintain the human resource in the organization.
Theme 5: “Step which are taken in the organization to overcome the issue of sexual
harassment”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
Policy of Sexual harassment 12 60
Training on sexual harassment 6 30
Process to clearly report sexual
harassment 2 10
none of above 0 0
Total 20 100
90
10
YES
NO

Interpretation: After going through the data collected it can be analysed that out of the
total pool of 20 respondent 12 respondent are in favour of policy against harassment is the
decision which is taken by the organization to reduce the sexual harassment. Remaining 6 and 2
respondent are having the opinion of process to clearly report and training. This result is
supported by LR section as author also highlight that it is very important for all the organization
to have a policy against sexual harassment.
Theme 6: “Impact does sexual harassment bring on the employee's”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
Disturbed mental health 3 15
Disturbed physical health 1 5
both of above 16 80
Total 20 100
60
30
10
Policy of Sexual harassment
Training on sexual harassment
Process to clearly report
sexual harassment
none of above

Interpretation: After going through the above data it can be interpreted that sexual
harassment used to affect both mental as well as the physical health of the employee which is
supported by the LR section of study. From the 20 respondent 16 are in favour of both. 3 are in
favour of mental health and remaining one is in the favour of physical health.
Theme 7: “Sexual harassment is one of the biggest obstacles which used to seen by the
organization at the time of incorporating diversity and equality”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
YES 18 90
NO 2 10
Total 20 100
Disturbed mental health
Disturbed physical health
both of above
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
15
5
80
Column K

Interpretation: The above data summarized that sexual harassment is one of the biggest
obstacles for the organization in incorporating the equality and diversity in the organization. As
out of the total pool of the 20 employee 18 are in the favour of Yes and only 2 respondent think
that sexual respondent is not the obstacles in incorporating equality and diversity.
Theme 8: “way through which sexual harassment can be reduced”
Particular Respondent Percentage of respondent
Training on sexual harassment 14 70
Proper communication in between
the employee and management 3 15
Tracking sexual harassment report 2 10
All of above 1 5
90
10
YES
NO

Total 20 100
Interpretation: After going through the above report it has been interpreted that training
on sexual harassment is the best way through which sexual harassment can be reduce in the
organization. As out of the total 20 respondent 14 are in favour of training on sexual harassment.
Remaining 1, 2 and 3 respondent are in favour of All of above, tracking on sexual harassment
and proper communication respectively.
Theme 9: “best way through harassment can be report”
Interpretation: After going through the opinion of all the respondent it has been
interpreted that almost all the respondent are in favour of having a team in the organization
which used to see all the issue of the employee separately. So that any such activity can be
reported by the employee easily to them.
70
15
10
5
Training on sexual harassment
Proper communiaction in
between the employee and
management
Tracking sexual harassment
report
All of above

REFLECTION
This study has helped me in gaining the variety of the knowledge and skill. The main
knowledge which was gathered by me was related to the topic of the study which was not
possessed by me in the past. This will help me at the time of conducting any other study.
Skill which was gained by me was the interpretation and sourcing skill. As the study has
asked me to collect the variety of data from the different sources and also interpretation the same
to find out the result of the study.
RECOMMENDATION & CONCLUSION
After going through the study it has been summarized that there are some sort of
harassment is seen by the employee in organization. As 11 out of 20 respondent has gone with
the option of Yes. This is not that good sign for the company. To overcome the same issue in the
organization, tt has been recommend to the organization that they have to build the bonding with
the employee in the organization so that there are no such thought used to occur in there mind.
This can be done with the help of the good sort of communication.
It has been also, recommended to organization to maintain good sort of working
environment in the organization. This will eventually help the company in maintain good health
of employee. As primary data collected shows that out of 20 respondent 16 has chosen the option
that mental and physical both health are impacted by Harassment at workplace.
It has been also recommended to the organization that they used to organize a different
training session in the organization in regards to the sexual harassment. Also organization has to
make sure that the entire employee in the organization used to mandatory take part into the
training and all of them are having the knowledge how to report the sexual harassment. Reason
behind the this recommendation is that out of total pool of 20 respondent 14 respondent has gone
with the option of training, it means that training will help company in overcoming the issue of
harassment in an organization.

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APPENDIX
1 Are you familiar with the concept of sexual harassment?
 YES
 NO
2 In your thought is there is any activity related to sexual harasment at workplace?
 YES
 NO
3 What are the activity which used to be seen at the workplace related to sexual harasment?
 unwanted touch
 Verbal remark of sexual nature
 Lustful string
 All of the above
4 Is organization used to take the corrective action to overcome the issue related to sexual
harassment?
 YES
 NO
5 Which are the step which are taken in the organization to overcome the issue of sexual
harassment?
 Policy of Sexual harassment
 Training on sexual harassment
 Process to clearly report sexual harassment
 none of above
6 What impact does sexual harasment bring on the employee's?
 Disturbed mental health
 Disturbed physical health
 both of above
7 Is sexual harasment is one of the biggest obstracles which used to seen by the organization at
the time of incorporating diversity and equality?
 YES
 NO

8 Best way through which sexual harassement can be reduced?
 Training on sexual harassment
 Proper communiaction in between the employee and management
 Tracking sexual harassment report
 All of above
9 In your though what are the best way through harasment can be report