Legal Research and Research Methods for Gender Discrimination and Equality Act 2010 in UK Retail Industry

Unit 06 Legal Research and
Research Methods

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1: DEVELOPING THE CRITERIA AND APPROACHES TO CONDUCT A LEGAL
RESEARCH.....................................................................................................................................3
Identify the criteria to conduct a legal research......................................................................3
Outline key issues in the proposed research...........................................................................3
Recognise the implications of the tension between different research methodologies..........4
Assess the diversity of research methods used in socio-legal studies....................................4
Critically identify ethical dimensions, strengths and criticisms of socio-legal approaches...4
Critically assess features of the black-letter approaches to doctrinal legal research..............5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Literature review....................................................................................................................6
Suitable research technique....................................................................................................9
Research tools.......................................................................................................................10
Conclusion............................................................................................................................11
Task 3: Analysing the quality issues associated with data handling.............................................11
Assess the legal and ethical consideration of data management, copy right, reciprocity and
trust and conflict of interest while conducting research.......................................................11
Analyse the use of bibliography and referencing systems to assure quality of data handling12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
The research depicts about the role of equality act 2010 in reducing the gender
discrimination within UK retail industry. Equality act 2010 is created for protecting people from
harassment, discrimination and victimisation. In this act people of Britain are protected against
discrimination. The few characteristics related to this act are age, gender reassignment, race,
religion, disability, sex and religion. There are three main purpose of Equality Act 2010 such as
fostering good relations, eliminating discrimination and offering equal opportunity. This act
replaces the anti-discrimination laws. Equality Act 2010 helps in removing inconsistencies and
also make easier for the people to learn the act. It is important for the companies and other
professional bodies to implement Equality Act 2010 in order to protect people from
discrimination. When this act is implemented within workplace it helps in creating positive
working relationship and also increases the performance of employees. The act increases the
productivity within team as they get equal opportunity to share their perspective and opinion. By
offering equal opportunities to employees, organisation can attract and retain the highly skilled
employees due to which the profitability and productivity of business increases. Equality act
2010 helps in making employees happier and motivated. It also better serve a diverse range of
customers and prevent legal issues arises.
Gender discrimination is another term which defines the unequal behaviour of individuals
based on gender. There are various issues of gender discrimination such as unequal pay, sexual
harassment, women are promoted less and fear of asking to be paid according to their worth. In
an organistaion, gender discrimination influences the business operation and performance which
leads to loss. It is of different types such as direct discrimination, indirect discrimination,
harassment and victimisation. The UK retail industry faces various challenges due to gender
discrimination which creates an impact on the performance of organisation. The different
negative impacts of workplace discrimination over retail industry are effect on organisational
performance, high employee turnover, disputes and communication gap. The existence of gender
discrimination creates a negative impact on the performance of company due to which it
becomes difficult for employees to give their productive outcomes in achieving the goals and
objective of business. Thus, if there is gender discrimination, it can affect the activities of
business and also employees will not contribute in achieving the business objectives. The
presence of gender discrimination leads to high turnover. In retail industry, employees are treated
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as an asset. If company faces high turnover it can influence the profitability and productivity of
business. It becomes challenging for the organistaion to attain competitive advantage in market
when there is high employee turnover. Equality Act 2010 plays an important role in minimising
the gender discrimination within workplace. By implementing this act, company can protect the
unfair treatment of employees on the basis of age, disability, gender and religion. Thus, this
research provides a detailed information related to Gender discrimination and Equality Act 2010.
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