Behaviours that support equality and diversity in the workplace

Research Project

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)
“ Behaviours that support equality and diversity in the workplace” - Case Study on
McDonald
Aim:
“ To investigate the behavior that influence equality and diversity at workplace” - Case
Study on McDonald
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 understand the impact of practicing equality and diversity within organization.
 To ascertain the behavior which company can imply to create a balance between
equality and diversity in functional unit.
 To identify the issues which organization face during managing equality and diversity
at workplace.
Research questions
 What is the impact of practicing equality and diversity within organization?
 What are the behavior which company can imply to create a balance between equality
and diversity in functional unit?
 What are the issues which organization face during managing equality and diversity at
workplace?
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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 main rationale behind preferring this topic for present research study is that, in current
era of globalized and competitive world, the aspect of equality and diversity becomes the
major concern for majority of the organization. This is because, it help employers to build a
healthy and strong relationship among each other and also lead them to improve the overall
productivity of company in an improved manner. Along with this, by conducting such
research study, it assist researcher to acquire the information regarding the influence of
equality and diversity at workplace as well as over workers performance towards
organizational goal. Moreover, by this report, investigator will also be able to identify several
behavior which empower employers to manage equality and diversity inside business
function. In addition to this, current research report also assist researcher to examine different
sort of challenges that an establishments undergoes while supporting equality and diversity at
workplace. Apart from this, by organization this study, investigator will also be enable to
know about various types of research methodology in order to produce accurate and reliable
report within prescribed time duration.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
To understand the impact of practicing equality and diversity within organization.
According to Angel Sharma, 2016, In the present generation of marketplace, the concept of
equality and diversity is one of the essential elements in every form of organization as it is
believes that such working culture helps them to accomplish their goal in an efficacious
manner. However, as per the overall analysis of company's productivity, it has been stated that
the aspect of equality and diversity impact positively over their capability to attain sustainable
growth and development (Managing diversity and equality in the workplace, 2016). However,
the term equality means assuring that each and every manpower are getting fair treatment
whereas diversity is termed as acquiring and respecting diverse culture, language, religion,
caste, gender, values, norms and many more. In addition to this, by managing equality and
diversity it empower organization to grab several growth opportunity which lead them to gain
competitive advantage among competitors or rivalries. Furthermore, with the implication of
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