Unit 11 - Research Project (Equality and Diversity in the workplace)

Research Project
(Equality and Diversity
in the workplace)

Introduction
 workplace discrimination is consider as a major issue that
faced by majority of organisation.
 In this, discrimination in the working environment is based on
different prejudices and also occurs when an employee is
treated biased and unfavourably due to race, gender, religion,
disability and many more

Aim, Objectives and Research Questions
Research aim
“To investigate the importance of executing equality as well
as diversity practices within the workplace in order to
eliminate discrimination”. A study on (M&S) Marks and
Spencer

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Research objectives
• To understand the concept and importance of workplace
discrimination
• To examine different practices related to equality & diversity in
order to reduce discrimination from the workplace.
• To assess various benefits attain by M&S with the help of
reducing workplace discrimination by implementing equality
and diversity practices.

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Research Questions
• What is the meaning and importance of workplace
discrimination?
• What are the different practices related to equality & diversity
in order to reduce discrimination from the workplace?
• What are the various benefits attain by M&S with the help of
reducing workplace discrimination by implementing equality
and diversity practices?

Approaches and Methodologies
• It can be categorized as per of two types including qualitative
and quantitative research.
• In order to undertake current investigation, quantitative
research will be applied because it help in gathering collection
of information that is measurable in quality and also give
authentic results.

Findings
Theme 1: Awareness about the issue of workplace
discrimination.
Q1) Are you aware about the issue of workplace discrimination? Frequency
a) Yes 30
b) No 10

Theme 2: Workplace discrimination impact over
the employee performance at working area.
Q2) According to you, does workplace discrimination impact over the
employee performance at working area?
Frequency
a) Yes 35
b) No 5

Conclusion and Recommendations
• From the above discussed research it can be summarised that
maintaining as well as promoting equality at workplace is one of the
important activity as it help in eliminating workplace discrimination.
• As per preceding research it has been suggested that analysing
working proper working environment is crucial for every business
organisation as it help in determining overall performance at
workplace.