Research Proposal Form

=Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID: ______________________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date: ___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: ______________________________________________
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a question, objective or hypothesis)
Title- “To investigate the strategies for reducing the workplace discrimination in order to manage equality and diversity. A study on Arcadia
group.”
Objectives
 To understand the concept of workplace discrimination.
 To evaluate the different strategies used by Arcadia group to manage workplace discrimination.
 To examine the challenges faced by Arcadia group in reducing workplace discrimination within company.
 To recommend some better measures which will help Arcadia group in overcoming the challenges.
Research questions
1. What do you understand by workplace discrimination?
2. What are the strategies used in order to reduce workplace discrimination?
3. What are the challenges being faced by company in implementing the strategies to manage the workplace discrimination?

4. What are some measures recommended to company to improve the equality and diversity within workplace?
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):
The major reason for the selection of the topic workplace discrimination is that the this is the major issue which is faced by companies
in these days. Hence, it is very necessary for the companies to solve this issue as this has impact over the working of the company. Thus, the
research on workplace discrimination will help companies in identifying the ways which can reduce the workplace discrimination. Another
reason is the personal and academic interest of the researcher themselves as they want to gain knowledge relating to the research topic.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
In the words of Dhanani, Beus and Joseph (2018) workplace discrimination is referred to as the differentiation which is taking place
within the company on different basis. These bases can be many like gender, age, income status, position within the company, experience of the
person, personal position of employees, family background and many other different discriminating factors. If the workplace discrimination
will be high, then this will impact the productivity and profitability of company and employees to a great extent. This is majorly because of the
reason that if there will be discrimination then motivation and morale of employees will be low and they will not perform to their maximum
potential.
In against of this Kalev (2019) argues that there are many different strategies for reducing workplace discrimination. The major strategy
is to abide by all the laws which are related with the equality and related laws and legislation. This abiding by laws will help the company in
following all the necessary aspect of removing discrimination.
But as per the views of Marchiondo, Ran and Cortina (2018) there are also many challenges being faced by company when they apply
strategies to reduce the workplace discrimination. The major challenge is the cultural difference because in different culture same thing or

concept have different meaning. Thus, the same thing is different for employee of one culture and other. Hence, this can develop a feeling of
differentiation among the employees.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the research project (e.g research, development and analysis of
ideas, writing, data collection, numerical analysis, tutor meetings, production of final outcome,
evaluation, writing the report):
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