Impact of Religious Discrimination on Organizational Productivity

RESEARCH PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................................................6
METHODOLOGY AND DATA COLLECTION...................................................................................9
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION....................................................................................12
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS...................................................................................24
REFLECTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY...........25
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................26

Title: To determine impact of religious discrimination on the organisational productivity.
INTRODUCTION
Background of Research
Religious discrimination is linked to the disparity in the care of a person because of their
religious beliefs. In this case, because of practices and beliefs, people work differently. At work
religion can contribute to the difficulties managers in particular. It is against the law and
develops the negative working environment at workplace. There are number of the actions
manager should not be engage in context to assure they are mainly complying with legislations
(Bell, 2017). McDonald's is a US-based fast-food company, founded by Richard and Maurice
McDonald in 1940 as a restaurant.The religious discrimination impacts on productivity of an
organization. Religious discrimination arise the communication barrier stemming from the
religion is persons lack of the information or knowledge regarding religion as well as the belief
system. In regards to this, these beliefs or the discrepancy among the beliefs and this impact on
how the people interact with each other.
Rationale of Research
Current investigation is related to impact of religious discrimination on the organizational
productivity. Throughout research area, person differentiate against both their religion
and influence on performance and their organizational productivity because of their religion and
this influence. Such religious discrimination is differentiated between people of diverse
ethnicities as well as cultures (Cantone and Wiener, 2017). There is a personal and professional
context to conduct of research. Investigator needs to ensure his personal understanding of
religious discrimination. The investigator is able to pursue the research study for personal
interest. In a professional regards, an investigator can determine how to conduct a research.
Researcher will be undertake same types of investigation in the future.
Aim
To determine impact of religious discrimination on the organisational productivity. A
study on McDonald's harrow, station Road.
Objectives
 To examine impact of religious discrimination organisational productivity.

 To determine issues arising from the religious discrimination in McDonald's organisation.
 To identify the various ways McDonald's should use to manage the religious
discrimination at workplace.
Questions
 In which manner, discrimination based on religion effect on organisational productivity?
 What are different complexities faced by McDonald's from religious discrimination?
 What are the strategies McDonald's need to be used for manage religious discrimination?

LITERATURE REVIEW
This part of current study described secondary information on Impact of religious
discrimination, including issues, through various external sources like books, published research
articles, newspapers, and more. In addition, various ways needs to be used for managing the
religious based discrimination was also explored by summary opinions of different experts.
Impact of religious discrimination on organisational productivity
Leila Canaan Messarra (2020) stated that Religious discrimination is a distinct treatment
of person or a group due to various their special religious beliefs. It covers situations in which
members of various religions, religious sects or non-religions, before either law or in institutional
circles like work are treated unequally because of specific beliefs. The most serious examples of
religious persecution are cases where individuals have been performed for beliefs that are
considered to be heretical. Laws that only have light penalties are characterized as mild forms or
forms of religious persecution. The constitution prevents, in addition to people who are members
of traditional organized faiths such as Christians, Muslims, Jews or other religions, persons who
hold religious, moral and ethical beliefs sincerely. A person could have experienced unfair
religious discrimination if it is refused work, shot, threatened or otherwise affected in jobs
because of faith, religious convictions and practices or request to change religious convictions
and practices. Other than this, if company does not treat the employees of different religion in a
better manner, then this arisen the complexities and develop the negative impact on performance
of staff and organisational productivity. Providing equal opportunities to different culture or
background people is helpful in enhancing their motivation level and also sustains them at
workplace for longer time period.
The religious discrimination impacts on the organisational productivity in a negative
manner. If in an organisation, person discriminated on the basis of religion then this impact on
their performance and also productivity. This kind of discrimination minimizes the performance
as well as the productivity. In order to reduce it, company should implement the Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Equal Employment opportunity. This helps in treat all religion
employees on equal basis.
Issues arising from the religious discrimination in McDonald's organisation

As per viewpoint of Jonathan Fox (2020) Workers are engaged in religious diversity may
be more vulnerable, attributable to a religious identity, to increased confusion and relationship
conflict. As a result, several issues such as increased absenteeism, decreased employee morale,
created a hostile work environment and decreased organizational efficiency. The religious belief
throughout the workplace will affect how people view work and influence productivity. The
inability to understand or recognize other cultures and religions is one of the key barriers to
contact arising from religion. These convictions or contradictions can affect the interaction of
people. On the other hand, religious discrimination arise the issues about reducing employees
performance and also minimizing the organizational productivity. Treating the different culture
people differently reduces their motivational level and fro this they leave the organization. In
addition to this, not to work effectively or not focus on attaining aim and objectives develops
negative impact on the organizational productivity. The issues arising from the religious
discrimination at workplace consist reducing employee’s performance, not attaining the
organizational goals on given time period, impact on company goodwill, reduce organizational
productivity and others. Through all these issues, employees will not sustain at workplace for
long time and this will enhance employee turnover rate.
For part-time maintenance man at McDonald's in Longwood, practicing Hasidic Jew has
been applied. The recruit manager told candidate he was being recruited all through his interview
but he had to pick up his barrel to adhere to McDonald's clothing policy (Colella and King,
2018). The candidate advised manager that he would not shave his beard as his religious beliefs.
Nevertheless, applicant suggested a compromise to wear the beard cover but was not permitted
to do so. This behaviour violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids
discrimination on grounds of faith and obliges employers to properly respect the religious views
of an individual or employee if they are disproportionately kept.
Various ways McDonald's should use to manage the religious discrimination at workplace
As per opinion of James Tamm (2020) Company can decrease risk of discrimination in
jobs by setting out written objective requirements for assessing and applying these requirements
to all applicants consistently. Employers may have non - discrimination treatment in process of
performing work interviews through asking all candidates the very same questions regarding a
specific job or occupation and examining matters specifically relevant to the role in question. By