Impact of Pay Gap on Employee Performance in Beauty Industry

RESEARCH PROJECT

Contents
Research Proposal Form........................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX.........................................................................................................................................11
Research Ethics approval form........................................................................................................11

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID: ____________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date: ___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: “To investigate the impact of pay gap in respect of affecting the employee’s
interest and their performances in context of beauty industry.”
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a question, objective or
hypothesis)
INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity refers to maintaining equal relation with the employees
regarding assigning equal task to every employees by viewing their capacity and skills.
Present research is based upon the topic relating to the examining the pay gaps between the
employees which affecting their interest and performances to provide productive results
(Syed, Ali and Hennekam, 2018). Pay gaps refers to paying remuneration to different
employees by viewing their skills and experienced to accomplish the task in better way.
Present report is based upon the study of the L’Oreal Company which was founded in 1909
by Eugene Schueller dealing in wider range of beauty products. At present they are engaged
with around 86,000 employees carrying the business worldwide.
Aim and objectives:
Aim: To examine the impact of how the pay gap affects the integrity of employees and their
performances in the organization- A study on L’Oreal beauty Company.
Objectives:
 To understand the concept of pay gap in equality and diversity
 To identify the impact of pay gap on employees and their performances in the
organization
 To assess the strategies that helps in reducing the impact of pay gap on employees and
their performances at work place.
 To provide recommendation to L’Oreal company regarding adapting the best
strategies to reduce the impact of pay gap on employees and their performances.
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer? What do you want to
learn how to do? What do you want to find out?):
Research Question

1. What is the meaning of the pay gap in context of equality and diversity?
2. How the impact of pay gap affects the interest of employees and their performances in
the organization?
3. What are the strategies that helps in reducing the impact of pay gap on employees and
their performances at work place?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project (e.g links to other subjects you are studying, personal
interest, future plans, knowledge/skills you want to improve, why the topic is
important):
Rational:
The reason behind choosing this topic is that researcher carry the interest on the
beauty products and thus it’s interesting to examine the working style of L’Oreal Company
and also the strategies which the HR uses to retain the employees interest. Another reason of
selecting this topic is that lot of authors had already conduct the research relevant to this
topic, thus it requires less resources and time to gather the information relevant to this topic.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
Sultan and Wong (2019) stated that pay gap refers to paying different amount to the
employees who are working at the same scale. Thus, through this manner, the crises raised
regarding employees turnover and also low productivity in the organization. Bravo and et.al.,
(2017) argued that pay gap is mainly undertaken by the owners regarding differentiating the
capability and skills of the person and also the person is recruited by their knowledge and
experiences and accordingly remuneration is decided and allotted.