Role of Equality and Diversity Practices in Minimizing Gender Pay Gap - ASDA

This presentation focuses on the role of equality and diversity practices in minimizing the gender pay gap issues at ASDA. It includes the research aim, objectives, literature review, research methodology, research findings, recommendations, reflection, conclusion, and references.

Research Project

Content
 Topic of Research Project
 Research Aim
 Research Objectives
 Literature review
 Research Methodology
 Research findings
 Recommendations
 Reflection
 Conclusion
 References

Research Aim
“To ascertain the role of equality and diversity practices toward
minimising the gender pay gap issues” - A study on ASDA.

Research Objectives
• To develop understanding regarding the concept of gender pay gap within an organisation.
• To determine several ways that can be used by ASDA for incorporating equality and diversity practices at
workplace.
• To ascertain the relation between managing equality & diversity and reduction in gender pay gap issues within
ASDA

Literature Methodology
Literature review is an important part of study because it helps
researcher in identification of research gap in previous investigation.
In this study, research gap is the impact of equality and diversity
practices in reduction of gender pay gap issue.

Research Methodology
Research methodology is a process that has been followed within an investigation
for collecting and analysing of information or data from different methods and
techniques. This part of the research project is important because without this,
investigator cannot gather reliable information.

Research findings
What is the concept of gender pay within an organisation?
This information is related with the secondary information that
are collected by researcher from different sources i.e. books,
articles etc. for literature review. Authors have idea as gender
wage gap is the standard difference between the salary or
wages for men and women employees who are working
(Gupta and et. al., 2019).

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How can ASDA implement equality and diversity practices
within the organisation?
This data is related with the secondary data collected for
literature review. Some authors have opinion as development
of equality policies and training is most effective and essential
ways for ASDA to use and incorporate equality and diversity
practices at workplace

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What is the nexus between managing equality & diversity and reduction
in gender pay issues in ASDA?
This information is also related with the secondary data that was collected by
investigator for literature review. Some authors have opinion as equality
and diversity at workplace has different benefits in which reduction of
gender pay gap is main advantage (Ali and Konrad, 2017).

Recommendations
For an organization as well as individual it is very much important
to always find out opportunities and scope to improve the outcomes in
potential manner. It is recommended that in today’s fierce competitive
world it is very important for organization to imply the equality and
diversity within the organization as it improve the productivity and
level of motivation of employees.

Reflection
Firstly, I feel very much grateful that I gain the opportunity for
conducting the respective research project in effective manner on
the subject matter of “To ascertain the role of equality and diversity
practices toward minimising the gender pay gap issues”. With the
help of respective research project I can be able to amend my level
of understanding as it helps me in taking crucial kind of decisions.

Conclusion
From the above mentioned data analysis and findings it has been
concluded importance of diversity and equality practices in reduction
of the issue of gender pay gap in the workplace. for this, most of the
participants have idea about the equality and diversity and its role in
eliminating of gender pay gap at workplace.

References
Ali, M. and Konrad, A. M., 2017. Antecedents and consequences of
diversity and equality management systems: The importance of gender
diversity in the TMT and lower to middle management. European
Management Journal. 35(4). pp.440-453.
Al-Shaer, H. and Harakeh, M., 2020. Gender differences in executive
compensation on British corporate boards: The role of conditional
conservatism. The International Journal of Accounting, p.2050002.

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