Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

Equality and diversity in
the workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Research proposal that clearly defines research question or hypothesis supported by
literature review .........................................................................................................................3
P2 Examine appropriate research methods and approaches to primary and secondary research
.....................................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Conduct primary and secondary research using appropriate methods for business research
project which consider cost, access and ethical issues................................................................7
P4 Apply appropriate analytical tools, analyse research findings and data................................8
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................15
P5 Communicate research outcomes in an appropriate manner for intended audience............15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................15
P6 Reflect on the effective of research methods applied for meeting objectives of business
research project.........................................................................................................................15
P7 Consider alternative research methodologies and lessons learnt in view to the outcomes..16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
In workplace equality and diversity mean a lot as well as it is all about respecting staff of
company for their individual age, gender, race, career experience, cultural background, skills,
belief and many more (Dhanani, Beus and Joseph, 2018). Although for an organisation it is
important to have diverse workforce as well as manger and leader have to ensure that they are
providing equal opportunity of every employee. This research is based on TESCO which is
British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer as well as it is third largest
retailer in world which measured by their gross revenue and 9th in the world by its revenue.
Respective organisation was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen. They are serving in UK, India,
Ireland, south Korea, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic. This research will going to discuss
several topics related to equality and diversity in workplace. Along with this, methods which are
suitable for conducting research will also going to be discuss. Furthermore, by using
questionnaire research will gather data and information related to the topic.
TASK 1
P1 Research proposal that clearly defines research question or hypothesis supported by literature
review
In workplace equality and diversity mean a lot as well as it is all about respecting staff of
company for their individual age, gender, race, career experience, cultural background, skills,
belief and many more (Rosenblat and et. al., 2017). TESCO is retail sector organisation who
implementing equality and diversity approaches within their working for conducting operations
in effective manner. Along with this, it will also result in making customer satisfy.
Background of Project:
Research project is based on influence of workplace discrimination on workforce productivity in
organisation. Thus, it is important for an organisation to provide equal opportunities to each and
every individual within business firm. Because this will help in motivating them and productivity
of company also get enhance in better manner.
Research Aim:
“To ascertain the influence of workplace discrimination on workforce productivity in a
company.” A case study on TESCO.
Research objectives:

 To determine the concept of workplace discrimination along with its impact over
organisational growth.
 To examine the benefits linked with elimination of workplace discrimination for the
company.
 To ascertain the relation between workplace discrimination and performance of the
workforce.
Research questions:
 What is workplace discrimination along with its impact over organisational growth?
 What are the benefits linked with elimination of workplace discrimination for company?
 What is the relation between workplace discrimination and performance of workforce?
Literature review
Determination of the concept of workplace discrimination along with its impact over
organisational growth
Discrimination in the workplace is supported on certain prejudices and arises when an workers is
treated unfavourably as of gender, sexuality, race, region, pregnancy and maternity as well as
disability. As per the view of Doyle A. (2020), workplace discrimination is an act and process of
treating employees in unlawful manner in term of hiring, discharge, promotion, referral and other
facets of employment on the basis of colour, religion, gender, nationality and race etc. In Tesco,
if the management of company treat an employee differently as they process different
characteristics to other individual of staff then the firm could be acting unlawfully (Dhanani,
Beus and Joseph, 2018). Direct discrimination at workplace arises when someone is get
treatment less favourably than other manpower. Instant discrimination can also arise when the
venture pay an employee less than other others for no good reason. Indirect discrimination arises
when certain legislation and law put such staff members at a drawback.
According to Benjamin T. (2020), workplace discrimination creates negative and
unfavourable impact over business in term of affecting its growth and develops in form of
employee motivation, commitment and loyalty. In Tesco, if the administration of firm treated
employees in unfavourable manner, they cannot perform their task in effective manner and it
also reduced their motivation level and the productivity level impact in negative. It unfavourable
influence over organisation performance and its productivity.