Equality and Diversity within the organisation

Research Project

Table of Contents
Title of the Project...........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................4
Research Methodology....................................................................................................................6
Costs, access and ethical issues.......................................................................................................8
Data Analysis and Findings.............................................................................................................9
Research Outcome.........................................................................................................................12
Conclusion and Recommendation.................................................................................................20
Reflection of the Project................................................................................................................22
References......................................................................................................................................23
Appendix........................................................................................................................................25

Title
Equality and Diversity within the organisation.
Introduction
Overview of the Project
The potential intention behind present scrutiny is to analyse business case related with
equality along with diversity in Enterprises. Therefore, this also initiates to, ways in which
business managers or owners will manage challenges related with equality & diversity in the
organisation (Benn, Edwards and Williams, 2014). This research will furnish other researchers
with an analysis and assessment of ways through which businesses are managing diversity
among their working premises. In the UK, businesses are officially needed to implement specific
policies and practices which are imperative to ensure discrimination is eliminated and outlook of
equality are constantly met within the organisation. Thus, it also entails that employees within an
organisations needs to be treated equally and be in the queue of gaining similar set of
possibilities instead of race, age, disabilities, gender, culture, sexuality or anything else that
might be discriminated against. In this existing analysis the study has been executed over
GlaxoSmithKline, a British multinational pharmaceutical firm that possess major concern that
are liable for rapidly management of concerns in context of practices related with equality &
diversity with an intention for improvising operations of the business effectively. This is a public
Ltd firm that is headquartered in Brentford, England UK. Company mainly deals in
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer goods; therefore, the firm possess near about
99437 workforce who puts their strength and skills for the intention of developing the operations
of the business (Berry, 2011). The company mainly offers variety of products like vaccines,
pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter medicines, oral healthcare and nutritional products,. However,
the overall income of the firm is around 33.754 billion which represents a good position within
market. The net income of the business is around 4.645 billion which also helps in determining
the position of the business. As a large business, GlaxoSmithKline is focuses over maintaining
equality and diversity practices for reducing the chances of issues and perform business
operations effectively (Daim and et. al., 2012).
Rationale of the Project
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The existing assessment is incorporates over determining the need for management of
cultural diversity within the working premises for improvising the overall organisational
productivity and performance. Therefore, here are assorted reasons for that investigation over the
area of diversity has been executed. Thus, cultural diversity acts like a key challenge within
modern business era, as businesses are widely concern over enhancing operations at global level
and for this diversity within workforce is imperative to perform business operations effectively
(Dozier, Grunig and Grunig, 2013). This study also providing detailed analysis over the area of
determining the need for a business to manage diversity and how this influences the operations
and productivity of the business. The another key intention of this particular assessment is
interest of researcher in this subject however, analyst is concern over exploring own personal as
well as professional recognition about the particular subject and performing effective job in
academic records. The study has its own significance in expansion of knowledge about the
critical areas associated with cultural diversity that may be effectual for the business who are
dealing at wider level.
Research Aim
Potential aim of the study is “To investigate the need for a enterprise to manage cultural
diversity at workplace for improvising overall organisational productivity and performance”. A
case study on GlaxoSmithKline.
Research Objectives
The objectives related with this study are specified beneath:
 To understand the conceptual framework regarding equality and diversity in the context
of business.
 To critically access the need for a business to manage cultural diversity at workplace.
 To determine the interrelationship between cultural diversity and the increasing
performance of GlaxoSmithKline. To articulate the measures that can be enacted by GlaxoSmithKline for developing
business performance through managing diversity at workplace.
Research Questions
The suitable questions that are interlinked with the aim and objectives of the study are
associated as below:
 Define equality and diversity in context of business?
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 Specify potential requirement of business to manage cultural diversity within working
premises.
 Illustrate interrelationship between cultural diversity and increasing performance of
GlaxoSmithKline.
 What measures can be enacted by GlaxoSmithKline for developing business performance
through managing cultural diversity at working premises.
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