Understanding Equality and Diversity: Challenges and Strategies - A Case Study on Carter and Ward

Managing a Successful
Business Project
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Project management plan.......................................................................................................4
Literature Review...........................................................................................................................11
Concept of Equality and Diversity.......................................................................................11
Issues and challenges in implementation of pratices for promoting equality and diversity at
workplace.............................................................................................................................13
Strategy and policies for effective implementation..............................................................14
Research Methodology..................................................................................................................15
Discussion and analysis.................................................................................................................17
Reflection:............................................................................................................................18
Evaluation and limitation of the research......................................................................................19
Recommendations:.........................................................................................................................19
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................20
Reference.......................................................................................................................................22
APPENDIX I.................................................................................................................................24
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Title: “To understand concept of Equality and diversity and a range of challenges & strategies
connected to it.” A case study on Carter and Ward
Introduction
Equality & Diversity the concept of treating all the employees equally in a organisation
irrespective of the diverse background to which they belong. This is regarded as the concept that
is practiced in every organisation related with management of employees. Present report is based
on Carter and ward organisation. It is an organisation part of estate industry that is dealing in
browsing of properties and using application based services with appointments according to
requirements of their customers. They also provide properties services and high quality of
materials used in construction. Present report is based on understanding the basic meaning of
equality and Diversity that is supplied in organisations and various issues that arise because of
implementation of all policies related with this concept. Further, there is discussion of strategies
that can be adopted for the purpose of dealing with challenges that are associated with
implementation of equality and Diversity practices in the organisation. In order to deal with all
the challenges and issues that are related with adopting of equality and Diversity practices there
is requirement of certain strategies (Gay, 2018). The strategies are used for the purpose of
dealing with challenges arising result of issues of equality and diversity. It is not possible to
conduct a detailed research by use of primary sources because of the prevailing situation of
covid-19 virus there has been use of available secondary sources of information that is views
provided by various authors and existing publications that will help in understanding how to deal
with such challenges.
With the help of such research there is a detailed analysis that is being conducted and further
some of the practices have been recommended to deal with the strategic issues that are arising
because of certain practices related with equality and diversity (Managing diversity and equality
in the workplace, 2016 ).
Aim: “To understand the implementation of Equality and diversity in Carter and ward to deal
with challenges with proper strategic management practises”
Objectives:
1) To recognize of the meaning of Equality & diversity.
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2) To understand the challenges related with adoption of practises of equality & diversity in
organisations.
3) To form some strategies to in order to with challenges arising because of practises of equality
& diversity.
Questions:
1) What do you understand by concept of Equality & Diversity?
2) What are challenges associated with practises of equality & diversity in organisations?
3) How can issues of equality and diversity be dealt with proper strategy formulation and
implementation?
Rationale of the Research:
The present research report is on the research or investigation that is conducted by the researcher
accordance with the set objectives of the research. This research work is based on understanding
the concept of equality and diversity which will help in understanding its implementation in
practices of a organisation. It will for the lead to understanding of various challenges that arise in
the course of implementing such practices. In every organisation there are employees who
belong to diverse background so it becomes very important for organisation to manage these
employees and the diversity to which they belong. These issues have to be dealt in the most
strategic manner. so that it is not going to impact the functioning of Organisation in the long run.
There are various available literature sources and views of authors that have been used for the
purpose of developing a detailed understanding and drawing some relevance conclusions.
Further there is also recommendations to deal with the negative impact of such practices and
maintaining the productivity of employees.
Project management plan
Project management plan can be defined as a document that is acting as a blueprint for the
investigator the researcher and is associated with a particular research work. It is used for the
purpose of understanding knowledge of various activities that are required for performing the
research (Ravazzani, 2016). Project management plan consists of various strategies that can be
supported in implementation of all the activities of project. In the present search work there is
development of a project management plan for the purpose of executing the research. Different
elements of search research are explained below:
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Cost:
For the purpose of conducting research investigator requires some financial resources so
that there is smooth functioning of all activities that are associated with the research. So there is a
total allocation of task for various activities that are part of the whole research activity (Amans,
2017). For this purpose there is allocation of available funds in different activities and there is
discussion of such a location in the mention table below:
Scope:
Scope is very important element of every project management plan as it helps in understanding a
detailed description about the overall scope of a particular research for a business organisation.
The scope of present search is very wide as it will help the organisation similar factors in
understanding what can be various measures to deal with all the issues and different types of
challenges that arise in the course of formulation of practices related with the equality and
diversity (Thompson, 2017). Will help Organisation in getting various inside related with how to
maintain a competitive advantage in comparison with other competitors.
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Time:
There a specific time period that is required for each activity that has to be carried on in order to
conduct the research and achieve all the laid down objective. The investigator has to decide a
particular time period associated with each step of the research so that there can be completion of
each activity according to the specified deadline. In the present search work there are basically
for activities that is project initiation, planning of project execution of project and finally project
closure after they have been achievement of objectives and recommendations have been drawn.
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