Impact of Gender Inequality on Individuals in Organizations

Research Project

Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
P1 Produce a research proposal that clearly defines a research question or hypothesis supported by
a literature review..............................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW...................................................................................................................4
P2 Examine appropriate research methods and approaches to primary and secondary research........5
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................9

Title: To determine the impact of gender inequality on an individual working in an
organization. A study on ASDA.
INTRODUCTION
In a globalised world, majority of business organization focus on inviting diverse
workers with the aim of attaining competitive success at market place. While operating
business at global level, it is important for company to ensure that all the employees treated
equally. The main reason behind this is that inequality at working area create complexities
among staff members that put negative impact over the employee’s performance within the
company. As promoting equality and diversity is crucial for company because it help in
maintaining positive and healthy working environment wherein workers easily share healthy
relation with others (Watson, 2017). In this context, gender inequality is one of the major
concerns for business organization wherein male and female workers are treated differently in
which women get less pay and opportunities as compare to male employees. This will create
issues and complexities among employees that reduce the overall performance of the
company at market place. Current research is based on ASDA, is a famous British
supermarket retailer operate their business in over the world in order to capturing larger
market share from its competitors. Company also include diverse workforce to execute their
business activities. This is the reason that organization is responsible for maintaining equality
and diversity at working area in order to improve overall performance level.
P1 Produce a research proposal that clearly defines a research question or hypothesis
supported by a literature review.
Research aim:
“To determine the impact of gender inequality on an individual working in an
organization”. A study on ASDA
Research Objectives:
 To identify the impact of gender inequality at workplace.
 To access the challenges faced by company due to gender inequality within the
business organization.
 To evaluate the ways through which ASDA can maintain workplace equality in
business.
Research Questions: