Workplace Discrimination on the Basis of Gender

Research Proposal Form
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Proposed Title: Workplace discrimination on the basis of gender.
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a question, objective or hypothesis)
Title: Workplace discrimination on the basis of gender.
Aim:
To analyse the impact of workplace discrimination on employee turnover and performance.- A case
study on Marks & Spencer.
Research Questions:
• What does workplace discrimination mean?
• What are the issues arising from gender discrimination in Marks & Spencer?
• What are the benefits of implementing laws and policies related to discrimination?
• How can discrimination be reduced within the organisation?
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer? What do you want to learn how to do?
What do you want to find out?):
• To understand the meaning of workplace discrimination.
• To identify issues arising from gender discrimination in Marks & Spencer.
• To determine the benefits of implementing laws and policies related to discrimination.
• To suggest strategies this can reduce the discrimination in the organisation.
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):
Present report has been taken into consideration on workplace discrimination on the basis of gender in Marks & Spencer
Company and its main impact on employee performance. The learner conducts investigation on personal and professional context
(Antman, 2015). In relation to personal, learner wants to enhance its basic knowledge and understanding regarding specific subject
area. On the other hand, in professional context learner can able to deal with the arisen issues while conducting an investigation and
also to perform the research activities in future in a better manner.

Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
Workplace discrimination
On the basis of Sherrie Scott (2020) at the workplace, discrimination may be occurring among employer and employee or among
employees and third party. This is an unfair treatment of employee on the basis of different category such as age, gender, religion,
sexual orientation and others. It is not fair for company to arise the workplace discrimination as this enhances the employee turnover
as to reducing the employee’s performance and they leave the company. It is the responsibility of manager to protect workers from
the unfair treatment and discrimination at workplace.
The equality policy of Marks & Spencer stated that we committed to active Equal opportunities policy from the selection and
recruitment by training and development. This company promotes environment free from the harassment, victimisation and
discrimination where everyone will receive the equal treatment.
Issues arising from gender discrimination in Marks & Spencer
As per opinion of Katie Scott (2020) Workplace gender discrimination comes in several forms but this mainly mean that a candidate
is treated different due to gender or sex. In this, an employee that allege that manager only promotes the make employees and keep
the fame in the entry level positions. This kind of discrimination reduces the morale of female employees. Marks & Spencer firm has
admitted the average woman to pay 12.3% less than the average male worker, as a result of which a gender wage gap is still
dominant for the vast majority of the workers at the entry level. In context to this, Marks & Spencer is focus on the departments
where it can balance the gender gap.
Benefits of implementing laws and policies related to discrimination
According to Marie-Anne Valfort (2020) there are different legislations regarding preventing the workplace from discrimination
such as Equality Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and others. These legislations are helpful in treating the male and
female employees on equal basis. Discrimination can be eliminated by executing the discrimination laws to the workforce so
everybody in the business will perform better. The equal pay act, however, allows managers to offer fair compensation for fair work
for women and men. The staff members work similarly if they can do well under the same working environments, duties and actions.
Strategies which can reduce the discrimination in the organisation
On the basis of Tony Jeanetta (2019), Managers should give the workers with equal incentives to function
efficiently and focus on the relevant tasks. There are many strategies which Marks & Spencer adopt to reduce
discrimination at workplace. Company can provide the training to employees; educate them regarding the
discrimination issues, develop the policies regarding the discrimination and also tae the strict action against the
person that arise the discrimination in an organisation. These all strategies are helpful in reduce the
discrimination issues at workplace and also enhance employee’s performance.
REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Abadeer, A. S., 2015. Norms and gender discrimination in the Arab world. Springer.
Antman, F. M., 2015. Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources. Journal of
population economics.28(3). pp.565-592.
Cohn, S., 2019. Race, gender, and discrimination at work. Routledge.

De Marco, M., 2012. Audiovisual translation through a gender lens. Brill Rodopi.
De Paola, M. and Scoppa, V., 2015. Gender discrimination and evaluators’ gender: evidence from Italian
academia. Economica.82(325),.pp.162-188.
Delavande, A. and Zafar, B., 2013. Gender discrimination and social identity: experimental evidence from
urban Pakistan. FRB of New York Staff Report, (593)
Online
Jeanetta, T., 2019. 7 Ways to Reduce Gender Discrimination in Your Workplace. [Online]. Available through:
<https://theolsongroup.com/knock-down-gender-barriers/>.
Scott, K., 2020. Marks and Spencer reports a 12.3% mean gender pay gap. [Online]. Available through:
<https://employeebenefits.co.uk/issues/february-2018/marks-spencers-gender-pay-gap/>.
Scott, S., 2020. Discrimination at the Workplace. [Online]. Available through:
<https://smallbusiness.chron.com/discrimination-workplace-2855.html >.
Valfort, M. A., 2020. Do anti-discrimination policies work?. [Online]. Available through:
<https://wol.iza.org/articles/do-anti-discrimination-policies-work/long>.
Section Four: Activities and timescales