Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

Equality And Diversity

Table of Contents
TOPIC: Equality and Diversity in the workplace............................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1 Research proposal defining questions and Literature review.................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................3
P2 Research method approaches.................................................................................................3
P3 conducting primary and secondary research..........................................................................3
P4 Data collection tools...............................................................................................................3
Data Analysis and findings..............................................................................................................4
P5 Research outcomes.................................................................................................................4
P6 Reflection...............................................................................................................................8
P7 Recommendations and conclusion.........................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

TOPIC: Equality and Diversity in the workplace
INTRODUCTION
Workplace discrimination can be defined as an unfavourable treatment done with
employees on the basis of gender, age and experience. On the other hand, workplace diversity
can be defined as equal treatment given to all background and culture of people at the same
workplace (Lambert, 2016). There are some importance and benefits of employing diverse
workforce within an organization. Company makes its environment more innovative by getting
different views and skills of employees. It also helps it in accomplishing its goals and increasing
sales. On the other hand, some problems occur and have to face by the company while promoting
workplace diversity such as languages problem, resistance by employees for adopting changes,
labour turnover etc.
This study is based on Unilever who is a British Dutch transnational consumer goods
company with the headquarter in London. It provides its products and services worldwide. It is
diversified in products such as it offers cleaning products, beauty and personal care. Food and
refreshment etc. There are different categories of equality and diversity or companies
discriminate individuals on the basis of age, gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation,
maternity and pregnancy, civil partnership and marital status.
As it serves worldwide, so it is important for this company to employ diverse workforce and by
conducting this study it analyses some challenges related to workplace diversity along with
strategies to remove them.
This study is going to show some advantages of employing diverse workforce within an
organisation. It will show consequences of workplace discrimination on the basis of different
mental disability. It helps the company in increasing productivity by making its workplace more
innovative. It will also show some challenges occur at the time of promoting diversity and
equality. Research methodology and its components like research approaches, types, data
collection and analysis also plays an important role in research project.
Diversity is based on mainly 5 types as many companies discriminate people on the basis
of different cultures, disability, religion, race like skin colour, pagan gender etc. All these types
of equality and diversity are being discussed as below:
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Pagon gender: Pagon is an individual who do not believe in religion as if they worship
more than one god. As per this, it is stated that it is an idea that everyone is either male or female
as there are only some differences of biological. Women and men can be identified as biological
features and certain personality trait. But there are several companies and people who
discriminate people on the basis of gender. Males are given more priorities than female and
diversity in this context means to give equal opportunity to both male and female.
Culture: Culture refers a group of people and the way of doing things. It consists on
social norms, behaviours which can be found in human societies and customs. On the other hand,
cultural diversity can be defined as a group of having diverse people from different customs and
cultures which have knowledge of different languages etc. For developing diversity in
workplace, it is important for the company to employ employees from different cultures which
have different ways of performing things. It can increase knowledge of others regarding different
languages and cultures, norms.
Disability: Disability means a condition that makes difficult for that disable person to
perform some activities in efficient manner as like normal people. This situation and disability
may be mental and physical. There are several people and companies who discriminate people
on the basis of this disability and disability of people to perform some activities. But companies
should provide equal opportunities to this type of people and employ disable people as well.
Religion: Religion is a social cultural system which have some different types of
behaviours, morals and ethics. Different religion may or may not contain various elements
ranging from divine and faith. Religion diversity is the fact that there are several and significant
differences in religion beliefs. Employing people from different religion can not create barriers in
the path of the success of the company. So, company should focus on employing diverse
workforce on the basis of different religion.
Race: Race refers an individual's personality and characteristics which includes bone
structure, ski colour, hair colour, eye colour etc. Ethnicity refers to cultural factors like
nationality, regional culture etc. On the basis of these characteristics, several companies
discriminate employees. But it does not matter as them main aim of company should be skills
and experience. So, it can be said that by employing different races of employees, it can make it
self successful.
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