Managing Equality and Diversity at Workplace: A Case Study on ThirdWay Group

Managing a successful
Business Project

TOPIC
“To examine the issues that organisation face in managing equality and diversity at
workplace. A case study on ThirdWay Group.”
INTRODUCTION
Diversity states to the collection of different religion, culture, values, languages,
ethnicity, beliefs and others on the basis of similarity. Equality and diversity in working
environment mean a lot of things. They are in context of staff and individual, age, gender, race,
cultural, skills, beliefs etc. Diversity incorporates all of the components that make individuals
unique from one another and while there are infinite differences in humans (Adamson and et. al.,
2016). Equality indicates to the sameness like when all the workers are treated equally on the
basis of values, ethics, race, culture and others. Diversity and equality both components are
considered as internal factors of an organisation and they affiliate with it in direct manner in term
of achieving high level of profit and productivity in an effective manner. This written document
is supported to ThirdWay Group which is a private limited company and operate its business in
real estate industry. This firm was incorporated in 2009 and headquarters in London and
England. The report will discuss about report aims & objectives and project management plan
are developed to analyse the requirements of the task in an effective way. Further will, define
about different research methodologies and data collection methods to gather accurate
information in context of specific area of examination. The interpretation of the data and
information will also define by using and applying different methods and techniques. Finally,
providing appropriate recommendation for developing the quality of the project and performance
of the organisation (Altman, 2018). Furthermore, reflection will also describe which is based on
researcher experiences at the time of proceeding all the actions of project.
TASK 1
P1. Project aims and objectives
Overview of the company
ThirdWay Group is a best property specialists and this firm was established in 2009 and
headquartered in London and England. There are 200 employees make their contribution in
running the business of the company in most crucial manner in term of accomplish the desired
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success and growth (Polonsky and Waller, 2018). It is private sector company which deals in
commercial real estate industries.
Research aim
“The aim of this research project is “To identify the impact of gender pay gap on
employees performance. A case study on ThirdWay Group.”
Research objectives
 To analyse the consequences of gender, pay gap in ThirdWay Group within a 1 month of
time period.
 To identify the strategies that could be employ by the company to deal with issue of
gender pay gap in 2 months.
 To study the challenges which company face in implementing equality and diversity at
workplace in 3 months.
 To find out the impact of gender pay gap upon organisation's performance due to
inequality within 1 month.
Research questions
 What are the consequences of gender pay gap in ThirdWay Group within a 1 month of
time period.?
 What are the strategies that could be employ by the company to deal with issue of gender
pay gap in 2 months?
 What is the challenges which company face in implementing equality and diversity at
workplace in 3 months?
 What is the impact of gender pay gap upon organisation's performance due to inequality
within 1 month?
P2. Project management plan that covers different aspects
Project management plan
It is described as a written document which is utilised by a company in context of
facilitating brief and clear guidelines to execute and perform all the activities and operation
connected to the research project. This plan consists different activities like framing, creating,
implementing, performing and controlling affiliated with the project (Bass and Haxby, 2019).
The project management plan is utilized and implemented to investigation about the different
aspects that are needed for appropriate preparation in order to accomplish aims of the company
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within a specific time frame. This considers different aspects like cost, quality, resource, scope,
time, risk, communication and others which are explained as beneath:
Cost- This factor is an essential component to organise a particular written report as it
help in getting needed equipment, instruments and sources in adequate way. In context of this
research work, the investigator needed finance and monetary value for the accomplishment of
this investigation report so that accurate and appropriate results can gain by it. For this, the
researcher required overall cost to attain the task is estimated £500.
Quality- It consider as an crucial aspect because it is connected with project productivity
and sustainability in direct manner in term of different industries and population. The research
determine the existing marketplace that assist in collecting all revenant and effective data related
to investigation topic in direct way (Beaman, 2017). It helps other surveyors to conduct their
investigation study in crucial way. To administrate the quality of the project, researcher can
utilise diverse tools and techniques in form of various methodologies of research like qualitative
and quantitative methodology of investigation. It will help in maintaining relevancy and
credibility of the information and the quality of investigation.
Time- It indicates to the time frame which is needed to accomplish a task and work in an
effective manner. It is needed to execute the research actions and activities in effective manner
through research group and its members. Therefore, the investigator has analysed that this
research project requires 4 months of time for completing effective and accurate project report.
Scope-It is another effective aspect of project management plan and in context of current
research, it has large scope because this project is supported to a common problem of equality
and diversity in working environment in terms of gender pay gap (Taran, Goduscheit and Boer,
2015). It is outlined that it is one of the main issue in an organisation and with the help of it,
investigator identify appropriate solution for minimising complexity of gender pay gap that also
be efficacious for various other researchers.
Communication- Efficacious communication networks are needed to assure that
information and data which is offering to group members in appropriate manner by utilising
formal and informal methods and easy of communication in context of delivering information to
team. In this research, the investigator will use both formal and informal method with effective
communication channels like message, email, notice board, meeting and by making direct
communication.
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Resources- This aspect is affiliated to diverse components like finance, technology,
software, human resource and others. In this research project, surveyor determines the necessities
to conduct research and on the basis of that they devise effort to allocate resources properly (Bell
and Harrison, 2018). For performing research activities and operations, the investigator have
requirement of finance, human resource, internet, laptop and equipment etc. The investigator
frame plan in context of needs of human resources so that aims an objectives of research project
can be accomplish in effective manner.
Risk- It is obsessed with those components that each researcher come across at the time
of performing research and report effectively and efficiently (Thompson, 2016). Thus, the
surveyor has taken an initiative in authorising the work as per the potentiality of each
individualism who perform in the research to reduce the issues and complexities by using their
efforts in more adequate way. To minimise the risk the research can use effective methods of
data collection to minimise the risk. In this research project the investigator can face risk
regarding accuracy of information which is collected by the person for completing project.
Another risk can be in context of time and monetary value which is given to the individual for
completing research.
P3. Work break down structure and Gantt chart to provide time frames
To develop the project in systematic manner, it is needed to utilise tools and techniques to
allot the work, task and activities in systematic manner (Hass, 2017). In context of ThirdWay
Group by implementing Gantt chart and work breakdown structure, they can set different
strategies for completion of project and allotment each in proper time duration also as described
below:
Gantt chart- It is a horizontal bar chart that accepted by project administrator to
segregate the entire project in two small parts and kinds of works or activities in order to
accomplish the desired aims and goals. In addition to this, it is rarely utilised tool in project
management plan as it offers the visual or graphical presentation of the schedules that lead
regarding the plan by empowering the responsibilities to accomplish desirable outcomes. With
the assistance of this, surveyor can analyse the time limit for each and every activity so that the
project report can be completed on time (Healy, 2015). It is very useful for the researchers as it
displays the beginning and completion time of all components in order to accomplish them as
well as it minimise the cost by reducing waste.
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