How Companies Respond to Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

HOW HAVE COMPANIES
RESPONDED TO
CURRENT ISSUES OF
EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY IN THE
WORKPLACE?

Table of Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
P1 Aims and objectives...............................................................................................................3
P2 Producing the project management plan................................................................................4
P3 WBS and Gantt Chart.............................................................................................................6
P4 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods....................................................................8
P5 Data Analysis........................................................................................................................11
P6 Recommendations................................................................................................................19
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................19
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................20
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
APPENDIX 1...................................................................................................................................2
APPENDIX 2...................................................................................................................................4

TOPIC
How companies are responding to current issues of equality and diversity in the workplace? A
case study on Aston Martin Lagonda.
INTRODUCTION
The concept of equality and diversity in the workplace is associated with the norms and
rules that are implied at the workplace upon the employees and how equivalent are the
opportunities for growth and promotion that is given to the employees of the company (Palinkas
and et. al., 2015). This concept encourages the employees to achieve their full potential by
making the work culture unprejudiced and free from bias. Aston Martin, which is a global
manufacturer of luxury cars is a British company and has been operating in the industry for more
than 100 years (Aston Martin, 2019). Throughout this period, they have tried to maintain the
work place ethics and culture where they have hired people from all backgrounds and classes and
given them equal opportunities to grow and prosper. There are a variety of issues that are
covered under the term equality and diversity such as the gender pay gap, cultural background
etc. and these need to be regularly evaluated at the work place. In order to study how well Aston
martin incorporates these factors, a small scale research can be conducted and this project will
highlight the role of equality and diversity in the company.
MAIN BODY
P1 Aims and objectives
Project Aim: The research carried out in this report will mainly aim at determining what are the
issues that are currently rising in the workplace of Aston Martin, such as, the gap in the salary of
male and female employees, the growth opportunities given to employees with different cultural
backgrounds etc. The research will then identify what are the possible solutions or strategies that
can be used to manage the workplace equality and diversity.
Project Objectives:
 To analyse the concept of equality and diversity in the workplace understanding the
current environment in Aston Martin.
 To identify the different issues under quality and diversity implementation in workplace.
 To determine the challenges arising in integration of equality and diversity in Aston
Marin.
 To recommend appropriate solutions for implementing equality and diversity practices.

P2 Producing the project management plan
The project management plan is that representation which is utilized by the project
manager in state to describe every phase of the project (Heagney, 2016). Such that it includes
range, plan, cost, attribute, human resource, communication, risk and procurement etc. in the
same way, in order to attain the aim i.e. to determine the issues which are raise in Aston martin,
researcher uses all the key elements which are as mention below:
Scope: When researcher perform this study, then it will be more beneficial to determine
the issues which is faced by Aston martin. Therefore, by study on this particular topic will help
to provide ways through which the company may easily overcome the issues such that gap in the
salary of male and female employees, the growth opportunities given to their employees who
belongs to different cultural background etc (Lientz and Rea, 2016). Further, another scope of
this study is such that researcher may gain knowledge related to the topic and as a result, it will
be helpful to apply the same in their future project as well.
Project cost: It is another important element of project management plan in which,
project manager describe how the money is assigned to complete the entire plan. Further,
researcher is also responsible for scatter all the material within their team in effective way.
Therefore, to attain the defined aim, the budget allocation is as mention below:
Cost breakdown Amount in GBP (£)
Expenditure of information
assemblage
25
Expenditure of travelling 36
Expenditure of information analysis
resources
80
Expenditure of communication of
results with stakeholders
90
Other cost 69
Total 300

Time: Every project is conjugate to a specific time limit and that is why, in order to
complete the task, the investigator requires 10 weeks to complete the project and it is further
elaborated in the Gantt chart in which every task is describe in detailed manner.
Quality: It plays an essential part in the success because when the task produces a
deliverable there are always a quality standards and also have a several aspect of quality
management (Wroblewski and De Micheli, 2017). Further, researcher should make sure that the
selected resources should be good in quality so that it will be easily meet the standards and helps
to attain the defined aim and objectives as well. Further, to measure the standard of quality,
researcher may also use the quality control techniques so that they will easily measure the
progress of the project too.
Communication: Another important part of the project management plan in which
researcher should make sure that there should be proper communication with the stakeholder so
that they also provide suggestion ti improve the quality of resources which are used in the
research. While on the other side, due to having poor communication with the stakeholder, it
makes the situation worse and lack of communication is consider the biggest reason to arise
issues (Chen, Kang and Lee, 2017). For instance, researcher may involve all the stakeholder in
order to check the progress report in every month by using email as a communication method in
which the entire description of the aim and research is written in detail manner. Moreover, every
project has a regular communication needs and it is further address within a project management
plan and the communication method involves project updates, investor circulars, progress report
and many more.
Risk: while performing a research, project manager may faces different types of risk and
they should make sure that risk register should be properly maintained in order to attain defined
aim and objectives. Further, for the current project, lack of funding is consider a risk, not having
efficient human resources and as a result, the project got affected In opposite way. That is why,
ensure that risk register should be updated in order to identify the ways through which the risk in
minimized.
Resources: It is another key element which is consider an important part of the project
management plan such that having a good resources will help the investigation to fitting the
defined aim and goal (Harding, Nelson and Glover, 2016). In the same way, for the current
project, researcher opt human resource who have good potential to complete the project and

leads it towards further level of success. Also, fire those person who have enough knowledge and
through their expertise, risk are minimized On the other side, resources also includes the
equipment which are linked with advance technology that helps the researcher to complete the
project and also uses financial resources and without it, project is next to be possible.
P3 WBS and Gantt Chart
Work Breakdown Structure can be defined as a tool that helps in segregating the entire
project into smaller tasks that are grouped under different classifications so that the task becomes
more manageable and process gets simplified (Mohammad and et. al., 2016).
Gantt Chart specifies the time that it will take to complete the different activities and the
stipulated time that will be taken for the completion of that activity.
Task/ Weeks Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week