Impact of Gender Equality in Leadership and Management on success and productivity of an organisation

Research Project

Table of Contents

Research Topic: “Impact of Gender Equality in Leadership and Management
on success and productivity of an organisation.” a case study on John
Lewis & Partners
Chapter 1: Introduction
Background of project
Gender equality is essential and vital for a firm as it is intrinsically linked with the
sustainable development the main objective of which is to providing same opportunities, rights
and obligations to women as well as the men in all spheres of work life (Burkinshaw and White,
2019). John Lewis & Partners is a high end departmental stores operating across various location
of Great Britain headquartered at London, England. Thus, this particular research work is
conducted on this organisation to evaluate the importance of Gender Equality in Leadership and
Management to achieve better success and growth.
Research aims & objectives
Aim
The aim of this research is, “To evaluate about the importance of Gender Equality in
Leadership and Management in success of an organisation”.
Research Objectives
The main objective behind conducting this investigation on John Lewis & Partners is as
follows:
 To have insight in the concept of Gender Equality and its need.
 To evaluate about the impact of Gender Equality in Leadership and Management on
success and productivity of an organisation (Williamson, Carson and Foley, 2019).
 To determine the ways that can be adopted by John Lewis & Partners to ensure better
implication of Gender Equality in its Leadership and Management.
Rationale for the research
The selection of current research topic is rationale as it meets the professional aspects of
investigator through leading better information about Gender Equality in Leadership and
Management and the crucial role lead by it success of an organisation. Further it also meets
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personal aspects of researcher through leading improvement in working experience and skills of
investigator.
Research questions
 What concept of gender equality is needed within an orgnisation?
 Why Gender Equality in Leadership and Management is important for an orgnisation for
its success?
 Why is it essential for John Lewis & Partners t adopt better strategies to ensure better
implication of Gender Equality in its Leadership and Management?
Chapter 2: Literature Review
A concept of literature review is type of reviewing or analysation of an particular topic. It is
scrutinize from article book or scholar paper that consists the current knowledge include
along with optimum facts and findings of topic related data information. The literature
review of importance of Gender Equality in leadership in management.
A) To making the understand the role of Gender Equality necessity.
As per the opinion of Rossa Brown, 2017. The main conceptual aspect of related topic pf
gender equality where it allows the opportunity driven as per the equality in the workforce
distribution as well as it regulates through some sort of compliances or regulation which involves
rules and norms to working procedure as per the undertaken in that boundaries of rules. In
organization the gender equality brings the first improvement is to making the environment
positive as where the employees can get rid to work peacefully and gently in another words they
get work satisfaction that will positive effect in their productivity. Second, allows to sharing the
views and thoughts of the assignment of individual where it helps to making the decision
effectively, Third by enhancing to promotes the high potential employees and allocate the
training program to non productive employees where they can get some kind of learning skills.
Somehow it get excessively divert in another side of employees development skills and
knowledge to elaborate the positivity aspects into performance benefits (Foster, 2019). Gender
equality agenda is to not having any discrimination within males and females workforce. The
organization have to understand the capability and higher competencies can be having in a male
and females as per the work should be divided in into both males and females where the salary
also propounded into similar factor.
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