Research Proposal of Diversity and Productivity

Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Research Aim.......................................................................................................... 2
Research Question.................................................................................................. 2
Literature Review....................................................................................................... 3
Diversity and organizational performance..............................................................3
Diversity and Productivity.................................................................................... 3
Dynamics of diversity management.....................................................................4
Challenges of diversity in organizations and how to overcome them.....................5
Diversity Management Issues.............................................................................. 5
Literature Gap............................................................................................................ 8
Methodology............................................................................................................... 8
Purpose of the study and type of investigation.......................................................8
Data Collection...................................................................................................... 10
Sample design....................................................................................................... 10
Sample Size........................................................................................................... 11
The questionnaire survey...................................................................................... 11
The interview survey............................................................................................. 11
Data Analysis Method............................................................................................ 12
GANTT CHART.......................................................................................................... 12

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Introduction
Research Aim
Diversity is an important factor in an organic society in the contemporary world. Diverse
cultural perspectives can encourage creativity and drive innovation (Korzilius, Bücker &
Beerlage, 2017). A heterogeneous society encourages diversity in an organization. The
contemporary and cosmopolitan organizations are diverse and assorted, economic globalization
being a reason for such phenomenon (Fitzsimmons, 2013). The aim of the research is to find out
the scope and limitations of diversity in the business aspects.
Research Question
1- How culture diversity can improve productivity and innovativeness in an organisation?
2- What are the difficulties and advantages related with an assorted workforce and by what
means would managers be able to utilize their administration to amplify the capability of
decent variety in the association?
The business concerns and organizations have been witnessing a massive intercultural
amalgamation due to globalization and cross cultural communication, a recent phenomenon
happening across the globe (Kymlicka, 2015). Therefore, the respective research question is
applicable in order to research the statics and dynamics of diversity in an organizational context.
The respective paper is a research proposal that exhibits the importance of research in the field of
diversity in the business associations and organizations. The respective paper is in a report
format describing the necessity of the research in the respective field.

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Literature Review
The respective research proposal is intrinsically as well as instrumentally based on the
significance and importance of diversity in an organizational context. The diversity in the
organizational sectors have been an important factor for the growth and efficiency of the
business concerns. The respective paper provides a literature review of ten scholarly articles that
intensely introspects the scope, limits and hypothesis of diversity in the world of business and
enterprises.
Diversity and organizational performance
Diversity and Productivity
According to the article “Workplace diversity: A key to improve productivity” by Saxena
(2014), the importance of workplace diversity has been highlighted throughout the article. The
article mentions the positive aspects of heterogeneous workforce. The paper highlights that in the
current scenario, workplace diversity has become a matter of utmost importance which has also
proved to be a factor of increased productivity in the enterprises. As different people bring
different perspectives and approaches, they contribute to enrich the organization, thereby,
providing the organization with a different leverage resulting in increased productivity, as stated
by Saxena in the article. On the other hand, in the respective article by Guillaume et al. (2017),
the importance of harnessing and managing different population in the organization for its
productivity has been discussed. The article has described about the significance of
heterogeneous population in the organizational context. Democratic workplace diversity is
always expected from an enterprise. The paper has utilized Categorization- Elaboration model
with the help of various theories in order to understand the implications of the connection among
democratic diversification and performance of the organization. The variables in the given essay