Research Ethics Approval Form: HR and Cultural Diversity Study

This document is a completed research ethics approval form for a research project titled "To analyse the effectiveness of Managing cultural diversity and its impact over human resource management of an organisation. A case study on Sainsbury". The form details various aspects of the research, including the research methods (interviews, questionnaires, observations, and data analysis), participant recruitment, consent procedures (written consent, participant withdrawal rights), and data storage and security measures. The study involves human participants, and the form addresses ethical considerations such as informed consent, potential risks to participants, confidentiality, and data protection in compliance with the Data Protection Act (1998). The researcher confirms adherence to the institution's Research and Ethics Policy and discusses ethical issues with their Unit Tutor. The form emphasizes the importance of maintaining data security and participant confidentiality throughout the research process. The researcher plans to store data on a password-protected laptop and outlines the retention and access protocols for the data after the study's completion.

Research Ethics approval form

Research Ethics approval form
Section 1: Basic details:
Project title:
To analyse the effectiveness of Managing cultural diversity and its impact over human
resource management of an organisation. A case study on Sainsbury
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
College Name:
Intended research start date:
Intended research end date:
Section 2 Project summary
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as a part of your project:
 Interviews Yes No
 Questionnaires Yes No
 Observations Yes No
 Use of personal records Yes No
 Data Analysis Yes No
 Action Research Yes No
 Focus Groups Yes No
 Others (Please specify) :
Section 3: Participants
Please answer the following questions, giving full details where necessary.
Will your research involve human participants?
Yes this research involves human participants while collecting data and information about the
research. Human participants is used for gathering information in order to conduct
investigation in effective manner.
Who are the participants? Tick all that apply:
Ages 12-16: Young people aged: 17-18 Adults: above 18
How will participants be recruited (identified an approached)?

For this research participants are recruited by seeking their permission for answering survey
questions. In this researcher is communicating with participant in order to collect their point
of view and information for conducting research activities.
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what you are doing:
In this process researcher is communicating with participants in order to seek their
permission for their participation in research survey. In this researcher will explain the motive
of conducting this investigation as well as importance for seeking participants.
How will you obtain consent from participants? Will this be written? How will it be made
clear to participants that they may withdraw consent to participate at any time?
In order to take consent of participant investigator is explaining importance of their view
point in analysing the results of survey. Information that is collected through survey question
will be only use for analysing data for this research topic. Information and data for survey
research will be used only for research purpose. Yes this research will be written. In order to
make participants more clear about their consent a proper documentation is provided. In this
each and every detail in mention that will help participant. In this information about withdraw
of participate consent is explain which includes that participants can withdraw their consent
any time.
Studies involving questionnaires: will participants be given the option of omitting questions
that do not wish to answer?
Yes No
If no please explain why below and ensure that you cover any ethical issues arising from this
Studies involving observation: Confirm whether participants will be asked for their
informed consent to be observed.
Yes No
Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e give them a brief
explanation of the study)?

Yes No
Will participants be given information about the findings of your study?(This could be a brief
summary of your findings in general)
Yes No
Section 4: Data Storage and Security
Confirm that all personal data will be stored and processed in compliance with the Data
Protection Act (1998)
Yes No
Who will have access to the data and personal information?
Research will only access that data as well as personal information that is collected while
conducting investigation.
During the research:
Where will the data be stored?
During the research data will be stored in that laptop or computer that is used only for the
purpose of research. Investigator has right to access information and its is responsibility to
keep data safe and secure
Will mobile devices such as USB storage and laptops be used
Yes No
If Yes, please provide further details: Investigator has use laptop for storing data and
information about the researcher. This laptop is only used for the purpose of research and
data storing.
After the research:
Where will the data be stored?
After completion data will be stored in laptop of researcher and further access will be
provided to concern person.

How long will the data and records be kept for and in what format?
Data and records of research will be kept safe in laptop of investigator and word format.
Will data be kept for use by other researchers? Yes No
Section 5 : Ethical Issues
Are there any particular features of your proposed work, which may raise ethical
concerns? If so, please outline how you will deal with these:
It is important that you demonstrate your awareness of potential risks that may arise
because of your research. Please consider/address all issues that may apply. Ethical
concerns may include, but are not limited to the following :
The major ethical issues that occur while conducting this researcher is related to risk to
participants as well as confidentiality of data. It is very important to keep data safe and
secure. This will support in conducting research task in ethical manner. In order to deal with
this different measures is used for keeping data confidential with the researcher. A proper
document is provided to participant that includes each and every detail about their
participation as well as helps in seeking consent of participants. This helps in keeping data
safe and secure with research and information is used only for investigation purpose.
 Informed consent.
 Potentially vulnerable participants.
 Sensitive topics
 Risk to participants and /or researchers
 Confidentiality/anonymity
 Disclosures/ limits to confidentiality
 Data storage and security, both during and after the research (including
transfer, sharing, encryption, protection).
 Reporting
 Dissemination and use of your findings.
Section 6: Declaration
I have read, understood and will abide by the institution’s Research and Ethics Policy:
Yes No
I have discussed the ethical issues relating to my research with my Unit Tutor:
Yes No
I confirm that to the best of my knowledge:
The above information is correct, and this is a full description of the ethical issues that
may arise in the course of my research

Name: Date:
Please submit your completed form to your supervisor and also attach to the Research
Proposal when submitting to Turnitin.