Managing Cultural Diversity in Human Resource

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID:
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Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date:
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Proposed Title: Managing cultural diversity in human resource
management

Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a question, objective or
hypothesis)
Research Aim:
"To determine the role of Human Resource Management practices in promoting cultural
diversity at workplace" A case on TESCO PLC.
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?):
Research Objectives:
 To develop understanding on the concept of cultural diversity.
 To determine several benefits that TESCO PLC get by incorporating effective
Human Resource Management practices.
 To ascertain relation between effective Human Resource Management practices
and management of cultural diversity within TESCO PLC.
Research Questions
 What is cultural diversity?
 What are the several benefits that TESCO PLC get by incorporating effective
Human Resource Management practices?
 Explain relation between effective Human Resource Management practices and
management of cultural diversity within TESCO PLC?
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):
The first and foremost reason for selecting this topic is to develop my personal skills
which will contribute in conducting more effective research in near future.
Another reason for choosing this topic is my own self interest towards this topic and also
I wanted pursue career in Human resource department in the future. Also this research
will enhance my knowledge on different HRM practices. As a result, by adopting these
practices in the future I will be able to managing cultural diverse workforce.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or
hypothesis:
On the basis of views expressed by Cascio, (2015) it has been determined that human
resource department have to perform range of activities in order to manage workforce
effectively. The main responsibility of this department is to create effective working
environment for employees where they can work freely without facing any sort of issue.

It has been analyzed that HR professional plays key role in promoting diverse culture at
workplace. In order to execute this in rightful manner HR professional provides
equivalent opportunity to workforce where they can learn, develop and contribute in
the success of the company. Practices performed by HR manager also empowers diverse
culture at workplace because they prefers to hire employees from different backgrounds
in order to serve company more effective manner as these hired workplace will help
company in achieving its goals quickly with their organizational skills.
Equality and diversity is determined as the influential term which simply states that
businesses are providing equivalent opportunities to all its employees and values their
diversity in society. Business organizations are now a days taking numerous of initiatives
in promoting equality and diversity practices for the common motive of developing
effective working environment with the organizational premises.
Cultural diversity
According to views of Ozturk and Tatli, (2016), Every organization have numbers of
employees in there company, and they belong to different culture and class, and this
difference in culture is called as cultural diversity, cultural diversity in a firm is defined as
the deviation in cultural practices of employees in the working environment of
organization where all employees are working together with a common objective of
achieving firm's goals in order to enhance profitably. The respective author has further
define that cultural diversity is jointly working of employee of different races in an
organized environment for great cooperation and creativity. Concept of cultural diversity
have both positive as well as negative impacts on an organization performance. The
positive impacts are, Increase in social interaction of employees, as cultural diversity
enable the working environment, the employees will get a chance to interact with each
other that leads in social interaction of employees and increase productivity (Smith, ,
2018). Friendly relations is also an positive impact as social interaction leads in
establishing friendly relation. Cultural diversity also leads in establishing common goal of
different employees. This function also leads in motivation of employees, Because of
cultural diversity there is recruitment of local talent in organization which owes higher
quality of knowledge as well as skills. It has also been determined that diverse workforce
at workplace are more productive as they get several opportunities to learn from their
colleagues with different cultural background. Greater opportunity for personal and
professional growth in these type of firms. cultural diversity also have some negative
impacts on organisation like increase in number of conflicts, demotivation, language
barriers may arise because of change in culture, chance of discrimination between
employees which may leads in advantage to other company.
Several benefits that TESCO PLC get by incorporating effective Human Resource
Management practices
According to Bailey and et. al., (2018) Strategic management in Tesco is very necessary
for effective management of human resource as it has several benefits for overall
organisation. Tesco is a brand which is operating in a highly competitive market hence
there is requirement for proper management of human resource to prevent high cost of
employee turnover. There are several benefits associated with this process of human
resource management such as it helps in increasing the satisfaction level of employees
which leads to better contribution towards achievement of objectives. This process helps

in enhancement of core competencies of employees and overall organisation apart from
this it also leads to gaining of competitive advantage as compared to other competitors.
From future growth prospect also helps top management in having making operations
more flexible and understanding for employees. Effective human resource management
practises are very important for long term growth of employees. In addition this by
providing effective training and development practices performed by HR manager
support in developing a positive working culture within an organisation that further
support in prmoting equality among employees at workplace. This in turn further support
in keeping employees more satisfied toward their work and loyal to organisation which in
turn further contribute toward developing a positive image of brand in front of its
marketplace. This is also necessary for individual satisfaction and motivation level
which further assist whole organisation in achievement of objectives.
Relation between effective Human Resource Management practices and
management of cultural diversity within TESCO PLC
According to view points of Hollenbeck and Jamieson, (2015). Every business
organization has prevailing cultural diversity at the workplace as every employee is
different in their own way in terms of culture and background to which they belong.
There are wide diversity in organizations such as Tesco which are operating at large scale.
Diversity in organization is associated with how different a person is from other in terms
of their way of thinking and doing work. Human resource practices play a very crucial
role in managing this type of cultural diversity in organizations. Various HR practices
such as record keeping, recruiting of employees, providing incentives for employee
motivation are related to managing of diversity in Tesco . HR expertise in organization
make detail evaluation whether employees from diverse background can be hired in the
organization for making their significant contribution towards achievement of
employment objectives. If there are effective human resource practices such as in terms of
providing equal opportunities of growth to every individual, no discriminatory policies
and there is equality then all these practices lead to effective management of cultural
diversity in Tesco. Human resource department also performs the function of providing
diversity training and counseling to employees in order to create effective learning. These
initiation from the management support TESCO in developing a culture of equality
among its workforce by making them respect and provide equal importance to employees
belong to different background. With respect to all employee decision human resource
managers help in reinforcement of appropriate & timely decisions.
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
Literature review
Research methodology
Submission of proposal
Data collection
Result of finding
How long this will
take:
3 days
17days
15 days
1 days