Managing a Successful Business Project

This presentation discusses the importance of diversity and equality in the workplace, focusing on the issues and challenges that arise due to gender pay gap. It also explores strategies that can be used to resolve these issues. The case study is based on Next Plc.

Managing a Successful Business
Project

Table of content
 Introduction
 Project aims
 Project Objective
 Research questions
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Diversity and equality both components are concerned as internal factors of an organisation
and they affiliate with it in direct form of attain high extent of profit and productivity in all
effective manner. Equality refers to similarity like when all the people of a firm are treated
in same manner on the basis of values, ethics, culture and religion in the workplace.
Diversity indicates to the accumulation of different languages, beliefs, culture, religion,
ethnicity and others on the basis of sameness

Project aims
Research aim
“To monitor the issues and challenges that arise out workplace due to gender pay gap.
A case study on Next Plc.”

Research objectives
 To study the concept of equality and diversity and its importance for the company.
 To analyses the challenges that are arisen at workplace due to gender pay gap.
 To determine the measures and strategies that can be used by the company to resolve
the issues.
Project Objectives

Research Questions
Q1. Do you have
awareness about the
development of
conception of equality
and diversity at
workplace?
Frequenc
y
(a) Yes 16
(b) No 14
(a) Yes (b) No
13
13.5
14
14.5
15
15.5
16
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14
Frequency

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Q2. What are the challenges
that are occurred in the
workplace of Nest Plc due to
gender pay gap?
Frequency
(a) Ineffective working culture 11
(b) Unequal pay 9
(c) Lack of flexibility 10 (a) Ineffective working culture
(b) Unequal pay
(c) Lack of flexibility
0
2
4
6
8
10
12 11
9
10
Frequency

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Q3. What are the
strategies that can be
implement by Nest Plc to
overcome the issues of
gender pay gap?
Frequency
(a) Promoting female
entrepreneurs 13
(b) Transparency in salary 9
(c) Mentoring programs 7 (a) Promoting female entrepreneurs
(b) Transparency in salary
(c) Mentoring programs
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14 13
9
7
Frequency

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Q4. What are the reason
of arising gender pay
gap at workplace?
Frequency
(a) Lack of flexibility 12
(b) Stereotypes at
workplace 8
(c) Discrimination at
workplace 10
(a) Lack of flexibility
(b) Stereotypes at workplace
(c) Discrimination at workplace
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
12
8
10
Frequency

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Q5. What the
advantages that can be
gain by Next Plc by
maintaining gender pay
gap at workplace?
Frequency
(a) Fairer growth options 14
(b) Raise staff morale 7
(c) Recruiting best talent 9
(a) Fairer growth options
(b) Raise staff morale
(c) Recruiting best talent
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
14
7
9
Frequency

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Q6. What are the
difficulties that Nest Plc
suffer while imposing the
equality at workplace?
Frequency
(a) Lack of employee
engagement 10
(b) Unfavourable employee
attitude 9
(c) Employee turnover 11 (a) Lack of employee engagement
(b) Unfavourable employee attitude
(c) Employee turnover
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
10
9
11
Frequency

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Q7. What can be potential
reasons that facilitate
development of equality
and diversity at workplace
of a company?
Frequency
(a) Accessibility of cheap
labours in some other
country
7
(b) Worldwide operations of
company 10
(c) Better interactions of
economies and culture 13
(a) Accessibility of cheap labours in some other country
(b) Worldwide operations of company
(c) Better interactions of economies and culture
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
7
10
13
Frequency

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Q8. Why it is crucial for
Next Plc to reduce the
issues of gender pay gap
from workplace?
Frequency
(a) Improve employee
retention 8
(b) Enrich personnel
engagement 9
(c) Enhance productivity 13 (a) Improve employee retention
(b) Enrich personnel engagement
(c) Enhance productivity
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
8
9
13
Frequency

Conclusion
This has been summarised that from the preceding defined information that equality
devise an crucial role in an organisation because it help to increase profit in an
amended way. Along with it, one of the main issue is gender pay gap that is
currently suffered by most of organisations. The outcome of this problem is that is
totally affect the work process of company in negative way.

References
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business and technology. Taylor & Francis.
 Pandya, P., 2017. Managing complex R&D projects-strategies from project
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117.
 Polonsky, M.J. and Waller, D.S., 2018. Designing and managing a research
project: A business student's guide. Sage publications.

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