Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

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: Equality and Diversity in the workplace.
Aim: To study the significance of Gender Equality in Leadership and Management for success of an
organisation. A case study on Next plc.
Research Questions:
 What are the possible needs and importance of managing equality for an organization?
 What are the main negative impacts that are lead by Gender inequality in context of an organisation?
 How Next plc can ensure creation and maintenance of gender equality in its leadership and
management in order to facilitates a more positive and efficient workplace?
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 study the significance of managing equality for an organisation.
 To determine various issues that an organisation face due to gender inequality.
 To determine various strategies that could be adopt by Next plc to maintain gender equality in
leadership and management.

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):
One of the main reason behind choosing this topic for study is to identify the importance of managing equality for an organisation to
achieve success. Another reason is to improve my research skills and knowledge in this field.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
Neugebauer, J., 2014. Equality and diversity in the workplace. Strategic Human Resource Management: An
International Perspective, p.306.
Celikdemir, D.Z. and Katrinli, A., 2020. Efficient Diversity Management for Workplace Well-Being. The Palgrave
Handbook of Workplace Well-Being, pp.1-22.
Fine, C., Sojo, V. and Lawford‐Smith, H., 2020. Why does workplace gender diversity matter? Justice, organizational
benefits, and policy. Social Issues and Policy Review.
Chang, E.H. and Milkman, K.L., 2020. Improving decisions that affect gender equality in the workplace. Organizational
Dynamics. 49(1). p.100709.
Coron, C., 2020. What does “gender equality” mean? Social representations of gender equality in the workplace among
French workers. HAL.

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):
Aims and objective
Research methodology
Literature review
Data collection
Data analysis
Conclusion and recommendations
Final submission
How long this
will take:
2 days
5 days
7 days
10 days
13 days
8 days
3 days