Investigating Equality and Diversity at Workplace: A Case Study on Aston Martin

Managing a Successful Business Project
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Contents
INTRRODUCTION........................................................................................................................3
P1 Devise project aims, objectives for chosen topic as specified................................................3
P2 Produce the project management plan that covers different aspects of scope, time, quality,
risk, resources and communication..............................................................................................4
P3 Design a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to provide timeframes.........................6
P4 Research Methodology.........................................................................................................10
P5 Analyse the research and data by using appropriate tools and techniques...........................12
P6 Conclusion and recommendation.........................................................................................19
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................20
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21
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Title: To investigate the current issues of equality and diversity at workplace on the basis of
sexual harassment, gender pay gap and gender divided in leadership. A case study on Aston
Martin.
INTRRODUCTION
Equality and diversity are important part of organization that provide equal right of each
employee and deals with at one point during their career. It may be positive aspects of diversity
at workplace where employee can share their idea, thoughts in business development. it also
helpful for creating diverse environment where employee build a good relationship without any
discrimination (Hawkins, 2017). Aston Martin firm workplace become more diverse but
increases issues accordingly such as sexual harassment, gender pay gap culture differences.
These are automatically affecting on the performance of employee within organization. In this
way, it considered the equality as an important concept which help for providing more
opportunities of people without discrimination. On the other hand, Diversity may take into
account differences between group of people, by placing the positive values on these issues or
differences. So as Aston Martin firm always supporting the equality and diversity at workplace
in which increasing the productivity or profitability in marketplace.
P1 Devise project aims, objectives for chosen topic as specified.
Aim: To investigate the current issues of equality and diversity at workplace on the basis of
sexual harassment, gender pay gap and gender divided in leadership. A case study on Aston
Martin.
Objective:
 To identify the impact current issues equality and diversity at workplace.
 To demonstrate the evolution of workforce diversity and equality at workplace.
 To analyse the benefits and limitations of workplace diversity within organization.
 To recommendation for improve the issues of equality and diversity at workplace.
Research Questions
Q1. How can identify the impact current issues equality and diversity at workplace?
Q2. How can be generated evolution of workforce diversity and equality at workplace?
Q3. What are different types of benefits and limitations of workplace diversity within
organization?
Q4. How can be recommendation for improve the issues of equality and diversity at workplace?
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Significance
The Primary purpose of research study is to examine the equality and diversity at
workplace because there are various types of issues arise which increases discrimination between
employee. In this way, the research study will help for identifying resources practises, policies
where how these are perceived by employee. It will contribute to reader for building a good
understanding towards the managing culture diversity. In context of policies and strategies that
always supports for employee in workplace.
Rationale
The rationale of research project is to identify the benefits and advantage in workplace
where it mainly focused on the diversity and equality that are able articulate the entire
organization. Researcher will easily express their opinion behind diversity and equality issues
that occurs within organization. As per study, researcher will easily find the equality and
diversity as an integral part that may lead values or simply equal treated at workplace. The
purpose of research is to analyse the contribution within society where how employee improve
business profitability.
P2 Produce the project management plan that covers different aspects of scope, time, quality,
risk, resources and communication.
Project management plan
It indicates to a formal document which is formulated by the management of the
company to guide the control and execution of a project. It is a document which can be used by
the administration of the firm to explain each and every stage of a task. It considers various
aspects such as cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and resources etc. The
explanation of all these components are as following:
 Cost- It refers to the value of fund which is needed for manufacturing and delivery of the
goods and commodities (Ashe and Nazroo, 2017). For investigation of the information,
monetary fund is required and important in a specific amount so that the management of
the firm can complete the enquiry in effective and appropriate manner. It has been
monitored that budget of the investigation is based on its resources so the budget is as
following:
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Activities Amount
Investigation instruments 58
Travelling 37
Investigation substantial 55
Total 150
Table: 1 Scope- It refers to investigation areas that in which areas the management of the
organization can collect and gather information to complete the research project. It also
consists those filed in which are beneficial for the company in term of growth by
increasing profit margins and enhancing productivity of the company. In this project, the
researcher can utilize appropriate resources with the help of them the person can
effectively attain the objective of research project. Time- It indicates to a particular time under which the administration of the organization
can achieve the set objectives (Milner, 2017). It is necessary for every firm ton set a time
period regarding their task because there are various actions in research are based on time
period. In this research project for the effective completion of it, the investigator required
4 months Quality- It is important for the company because when they manufacture good quality
products and service then it is beneficial to make development in the productivity and
sales of the firm and make increment in the customer base. In this research task, the
investigator can use effective and appropriate data and information for the completion of
the project. Communication- It refers to the procedure to make communication with the customers
who provide information about the products in term of feedbacks and reviews. The
management of the company can use different tools and methods of communication like
social media, company websites, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others. In this
research project, the investigator can use various modes of communication like Mail,
message, chat box, phone call and other to provide any information regarding project to
its team members.
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 Risk- There are various kind of problems face by a company in its business. Major issues
are affiliated to the quality, quantity, prices and packaging of products and services. In
this investigation task, there are various kind of problems and threats can be suffering by
researcher regarding time, finance and required resources etc.
 Resources- It is very crucial aspect which include several components and elements
which are highly required for the production of the goods and services (Franci, Barr and
McIntyre, 2017). In context of it, the management of the company required various
resources like raw material, human resources, labor, equipment’s, finance and others.
required for the production of the goods and services. To meet the objective of this
research project, the investigator will need instruments, equipment’s, fund, time and
others.
P3 Design a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to provide timeframes.
Gantt Chart
It refers to a bar chart which represent the schedule of a task. It was formulated by Henry
L. Gantt in 1917 to provide the visual information about schedule which is helpful to plan,
administrate, organize, coordinate and lead specific work in a task. Within this geographical
chart activities and actions of the project are defined on x axis and performance of these actions
are explained on y axis. It is essential for research project because with the help of it the
investigator can mentioned project actions and activities and their performance on bar chart
(Milner, Demilly and Pochic, 2019). It is beneficial because it assists in finding out information
to each and every action and the research can efficiently use to defined research activities and
find out effective outcomes.
Time Frame:
Activities/Week W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8
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