Role of Equality and Diversity in Reducing Gender Pay Gap

Managing a Successful
Business Project

Contents
Title: Role of Equality and Diversity within the workplace to reduce the impact of gender pay
gap. A case study on Sollatek..........................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1) Aims and objectives of the research......................................................................................4
P2) Project management plan for the research............................................................................5
P3) Work breakdown Structure and Gantt Chart.........................................................................7
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................10
P4) Small scale research with the help of qualitative and quantitative research.......................10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................13
P5) Analysis of the data with the help of various tools and techniques....................................13
P6) Recommendations on the basis of the research and the data analysis..................................1
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................1
P7) Reflection on the values of undertaking the research...........................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
Logbook...........................................................................................................................................2

Title: Role of Equality and Diversity within the workplace to reduce the impact of
gender pay gap. A case study on Sollatek.
INTRODUCTION
For the organisation it is important to manage the workplace environment in order to keep their
employees motivated. This can be done by way of treating the employees in the organisation
equal and fair. Due to globalisation the organisations are facing stiff competition and to manage
them they need to make their workforce competent. The workforce in the organisation is diverse
due to which the managers need to consider the concept of equality and diversity as with this
they can ensure that the issues such as gender pay gap, discrimination at different do not affect
the business operations. For this report a medium sized company Sollatek is taken into
consideration, which is manufacturer of various innovation products which are used for
controlling power, temperature etc. The company aims to maintain balanced workforce for which
they are conducting a research with the help of which various strategies can be identified and the
changes in the existing policies can also be analysed.
TASK 1
P1) Aims and objectives of the research
Overview of the Research: The research is undertaken for the Sollatek which is
manufacturer of innovative products that provides energy saving products. With the help of this
research they can determine the changes in the strategies and new strategies which they need to
formulate so that they can overcome with the issues related to the gender pay gap, gender and
promotion etc. For conducting the research the data will be collected with the help of various
sources and on the basis of which recommendations will be provided to the human resource
managers of the Sollatek (PMP, 2016).
Aim of the research: The aim of the research is “ to identify the role of equality and diversity in
reducing impact of gender pay gap issue within the organisation.” A case study on Sollatek.
Objectives of the research: The objectives of the research are:
 To analyse the role of equality act in managing the gender pay gap issue at the
workplace.

 To analyse the existing policies of the Sollatek for ensuring equality and diversity within
the organisation.
 To identify suitable policies, strategies and techniques that can help the organisation in
dealing with this issue.
 To examine various benefits of incorporating the concept of equality and diversity in the
organisation.
Questions: The questions which are to be answered on the basis of this research are:
 What role does the Equality Act plays in managing the equality and diversity within the
workplace?
 What are the existing policies that have been adopted by the organisation for equality and
diversity?
 What strategy can be adopted by the organisation to deal with the issue of gender pay gap
effectively?
 What are the benefits to the Sollatek of incorporating equality and diversity at
workplace?
P2) Project management plan for the research
Project management plan is a plan in which various phases of the project are defined and
with the help of which the activities of the project are guided and controlled (Quinlan, 2019).
The plan includes various components such as cost, quality, resources, communication etc. that
facilitates the researcher to plan for various aspects. Such as they determine the cost which they
will incur in undertaking the research. The objective of formulating the plan is that it helps the
investigator and the project team in analysing the scope of the project. A project plan answers to
various questions such as why the project is undertaken and the value propositions of the project,
what are the activities that are to be performed, who all need to be involved in undertaking the
project and their responsibilities, lastly the timeline in which the project can be completed
(Nicholas and Steyn, 2017).
A project management plan for undertaking the research includes the discussion of
various components of plan.
 Cost: For undertaking a research an investigator need to identify the cost which they will
incur as with the help of this they can provide the quotations to the company. The
investigator has to gather a lot of information from various sources and for that they have

to procure the resources (Nardi, 2018). The researcher need to prepare budget for the
same in which they will include all the activities such as the cost of survey which they
will conduct, equipments that they have to purchase, stipend to be paid to the trainees
working under him etc. The total cost which the researcher will incur is 200£ and the
allocation of the total cost is given below:
Description Cost
Survey 50£
Equipment for the project 40£
Travel cost 35£
Management cost 75£
Total 200£
 Scope: This component of the project management plan defines the boundaries of the
projects. It defines the cause of undertaking the project. Further it also defines, develops,
monitor and control how the project needs to be undertaken by the researcher. The scope
statement of the project describes the major deliverables to the client, assumptions which
are taken by them. The scope of this research is that the organisation Sollatek can
efficiently meet up with the issue of the gender pay gap. While the knowledge and
understanding of the investigator regarding the topic will improve and with this they
undertake research efficiently in future (Myers, 2019).
 Time: Time component of the project management plan helps to define the duration
within which the project will be completed. In this component the time is allocated to
different activities by the researcher with the help of work breakdown structure and Gantt
chart. For this research, two months time will be taken by them as they have to gather
data about the existing policies and then have to suggest them one. With the help of this
component scheduling of the activity is also possible which enables the investigator to
allocate responsibilities among all (Li and Lu, 2017).
 Quality: With the help of this component, the quality of the data and information which
is to be gathered by the researcher is determined. The researcher identifies various tools,
techniques, methods with the help of which they collect the data. For this research, the