Equality & Diversity Practices in Sainsbury's

Managing a Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
Chapter 1..........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aims & objectives..................................................................................................................3
Project management plan.......................................................................................................4
Chapter 2..........................................................................................................................................5
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5
Understanding concept of Equality & diversity.....................................................................5
Impact of equality & diversity practices on employee regular performance.........................6
Role of strategy formulation in order to manage the diverse workforce................................6
Chapter 3..........................................................................................................................................7
Research Methodology...........................................................................................................7
Chapter 3........................................................................................................................................11
Data Analysis and Interpretation..........................................................................................11
Research outcomes ..............................................................................................................16
Chapter 5........................................................................................................................................16
Recommendations................................................................................................................16
Conclusion............................................................................................................................17
Chapter 6........................................................................................................................................17
Reflection.............................................................................................................................17
Alternative methodology......................................................................................................18
REFERNCES.................................................................................................................................20

Title: Equality & diversity practices part of employee's daily activities. A case
study on Sainsbury's.
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
There are many changes that are part of the external environment impact the way internal
functioning of organisations. Equality & diversity practices are part of different organisations. It
is related with the way how creativity & innovation activities are practised in a organisation.
Sainsbury Plc is a second largest chain of supermarket that is having presence in UK. It was
founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury's and then in 1922 it became one of large grocery
outlets of London. (Basu, 2017). Present report is aimed at the discussion of the basic equality &
diversity concept as it is part of each organisations. There is discussion of the role played by
equality and diversity practices & its effect on the way employees are performing their daily
functions. There is need of formulating strategies that has to be adopted by organisation to ensure
that they are able to manage their diverse workforce. According to the information collected
from primary & secondary sources for collecting the information related to research topic. There
is further evaluation of this collected information and interpreted to draw certain
recommendations for proper management of diverse workforce.
Aims & objectives
Research overview: Research work is on a retail organization of UK that is Sainsbury's
to interpret the effect of equality & diversity practises on employees functioning & performance.
Research Aim: Aim of research is “Create a detail overview of concept of Equality &
Diversity that affects employee daily performance” Case study on Siansbury's.
Research objectives: Objectives of present research are:
 Understanding the concept of Equality & diversity in organisations
 Effect of equality & diversity practices on employee regular performance
 Role of strategy formulation for managing the diverse workforce.
Questions:
 What is the basic concept of Equality & Diversity?
 How does equality & diversity practices affect employee daily performance?
 What is basic role of strategy formulation for managing the diverse workforce ?

Project management plan
Project management plan is a basic tool that is used for developing a detail overview of
various phases that are part of a research work. It is adopted for facilitation of research work and
providing guidance so that different activities of research can be managed. Different components
of research project includes cost, scope, quality, communication and many such related elements.
This management plan is very helpful in development of the value of proposition according to
way the project has to be executed by the researcher. The Project management plan for this
research is given below:
Cost: This is related to the financial requirement of the research report. In this there is
need to arrange all financial resources so that whole project can be efficiently completed (Natha,
2020). There is need of some financial resources for conducting the survey, travelling and
incurring cost for managing all the petty expenses that take place all through research.
Scope: The scope of research project is to make a depth analysis and then further draw
recommendation to the HR manager for the purpose of ensuring smooth management of their
diverse workforce (Erickson, and et. al., 2014). The results obtained from this research and
various recommendations that have been made by the researcher can be used for the purpose of
managing the high amount of diversity that is prevailing in the organisation like Sainsburys
because of diverse workforce.
Quality: Quality is used for ensuring that overall outcomes are achieved according to
some predetermined standards that are to be set in the initial stages of a research (Klein, 2016).
Such as there has to be some specific standards that are to be set by researcher in the beginning
of the report to ensure that these standards help in achievement of higher quality outcomes.
There is use of monitoring techniques like key performance indicators, correcting defects and
using Gantt chart to ensue timely completion of the research report.

Resources: There are some resources that are required in order to conduct the research.
Such as secondary available sources like journals, newspapers, websites etc. these are very
important to procure information required to collection of the needed information related to
research topic and further analyse it to draw reliable outcomes (Jammaers, Zanoni and Hardonk,
2016).
Risk: there is always situation of high risk that can be faced by researcher because of
non timely completion of research, deficiency of resources, non achievement of laid objectives.
These have to be dealt by researcher in order to avoid such type of pre determined risks (Vickers,
2017). For this there is use of techniques like Gantt chart & WBS to divide the work and allocate
the activities according to available time period.
Communication: In the whole research project there is need to make proper
communication to project manager so that there can tracking of progress. There will be use of
telecommunication and use of mails for making direct communication with all the other
teammates.
Chapter 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
Understanding concept of Equality & diversity
According to views of Give A Grad A Go, Workplace diversity is a very common topic
that is commonly observed among employees, employers, professionals and managers Business
Leaders are willing to promote workplace diversity as it helps their organisation to have a
creative approach towards the process of decision making. Diversity is not just related to diverse
individuals but also making sure that there is equal employee participation. In recent times the
inclusion of workplace has extended to ensure that there is proper performance, participation and
compensation that is provided to minorities and is not just a symbol of hiring a diverse
workforce, companies have started recognizing that there is a very high value that is added by a
diverse workforce in every organisation. Equality is the fair attention & treatment to employees
irrespective of the race, gender religion, nationality or age, equality means to ensure that there is
equal pay, equal opportunities for each individual without any sort of discrimination

Impact of equality & diversity practices on employee regular performance
According to Louise petty, 2016 Equality & diversity practises are very relevant in all
workplaces as it helps in employing a higher workforce. The aim is to ensure that there is
accessing of equal opportunities and providing fair treatment to all employees. If the workplace
environment is free from any type of harassment, discrimination, bullying or victimisation then it
will help in enhancing employee morale. It has several benefits at workplace such as people from
diverse backgrounds and cultures help in developing a fresh array. It helps in timely problem
solving and enhancing overall productivity of employees. It creates a wider talent pool when
there is embracing of diversity of thought, ethnicity, background. There is more innovation that
leads to proper problem solving and development of Creative solutions.
Role of strategy formulation in order to manage the diverse workforce.
According to Sophia Lee, there is need of proper strategy formulation to deal with the
challenges of managing a diverse workforce. It ensure that employees are able to understand
overall goals of organisation. The management of organisation has to focus on a Strategy of
logical decision making where there has to be decisions that are based on use of facts and logic
only. So there has to be more investment on training to overcome the situation of biasses. There
are a number of challenges brought in an organisation when they are to manage a diverse
workforce. It is necessary that human resource department is effectively identifying this problem,
and taking various steps that are necessary to fulfil all the required needs in order to make sure
that diverse workforce is effectively working for the organisation. There are a number of
strategies that could be adopted by organisations to do so like prioritizing the communication in
workplace. They need to make sure that communication is given utmost importance and effective
communication is taking place in organisation. It is necessary that training and development
program for employed are encouraging them to work in various diverse groups this will also help
to manage a diverse workforce in organisation. It is necessary that the policies and procedures in
organisations are also focused upon diverse groups. Strategies help in proper management of a
huge workforce as it helps in improving the efficiency of employees contribution towards their
assigned roles & responsibilities.