Investigating Disadvantages of Gender Inequality at Atlas Hotels

This research proposal investigates the disadvantages of gender inequality within Atlas Hotels, a hospitality organization operating 48 properties in the United Kingdom. The study aims to identify issues and challenges arising from gender inequality in the workplace, focusing on the impact on employees and the quality of services provided. The research objectives include defining gender inequality, identifying its disadvantages within Atlas Hotels (such as mental health issues, stress, and reduced job satisfaction), and recommending solutions. The methodology involves a questionnaire survey to collect primary data. The literature review covers gender inequality and its negative impacts. The report includes a Gantt chart, a risk register, and references to support the findings and recommendations. The scope is limited to the 48 properties of Atlas Hotels, with the primary limitation being the potential for inaccurate questionnaire responses. The research seeks to provide actionable insights for Atlas Hotels management to address gender inequality and improve workplace conditions.

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Executive Summary
The major aim of this research proposal is to discuss about the gender inequality in Atlas
Hotels. The topic will focus on the issues and challenges that may arise out of equality in the
workplace in all these hotel properties and what should be the measures that could be taken to
resolve them. Only questionnaire survey will be used as the method of collecting primary
data from all these hotel properties to find out the issues, so that necessary actions could be
designed to overcome the raised issues by the management of Atlas Hotels, which is a
hospitality organization that operates 48 properties in the market place of the United
Kingdom.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background............................................................................................................................3
Research Aim.............................................................................................................................3
Research Objective.....................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................4
Gender Inequality...................................................................................................................4
Disadvantages faced due to Gender Inequality......................................................................4
Research Methodology...............................................................................................................5
Data Collection.......................................................................................................................5
Scope and Limitations................................................................................................................5
Scope......................................................................................................................................5
Limitations.............................................................................................................................5
Resources and Cost Considerations...........................................................................................5
Gantt Chart.................................................................................................................................6
Table 1: Table showing the timeframe of the entire research.............................................6
Risk Register..............................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Background
The primary purpose of this research proposal is to discuss about the gender
inequality in Atlas Hotels, which is a hospitality organization that operates 48 properties in
the overall market place of the United Kingdom. The topic will focus on the issues and
challenges that may arise out of this gender inequality in the workplace in all these hotel
properties and what should be the measures that could be taken to resolve them. Only
questionnaire survey will be used as the method of collecting primary data from all these
hotel properties to find out the issues, so that necessary actions could be designed to
overcome the raised issues by the management of Atlas Hotels.
Research Aim
As discussed already, the aim of this research proposal will be to identify the
disadvantages of inequality of gender in the organization of Atlas Hotels, which are
delivering quality services through their 48 properties in the region of the United Kingdom.
The company started their journey in the year 1996 (User 2020). As the management have to
manage a healthy amount of hotel properties, they need to deal with a diversified work
culture through their properties. The issues need to be identified where the management along
with the employees are facing issues and hampering the quality of the services that are
usually provided to their guests and customers and due to which the hospitality company is
widely known as.

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Research Objective
The research objectives that will help to identify the disadvantages that have been
faced by the management of Atlas Hotels are given as follows:
1. To know about the meaning of gender inequality in workplace of Atlas Hotels
2. To identify the disadvantages that may arise out of gender inequality in the
workplace of Atlas Hotels
3. To find out the recommended steps that will help to overcome the identified issues
in the workplace of Atlas hotels
Literature Review
Gender Inequality
The term gender inequality focuses on the inequality between women and men and
helps to understand that gender impacts the overall living experience of an individual. These
differences are raised from distinctions in psychology, biology and cultural norms. Gender
inequality also includes differences between a woman and a man in the field of education,
health, political and economic. Thus, in one word, it can be said that the term gender
inequality is the receipt of unequal treatment based only on gender (Ponthieux and Meurs
2015).
Disadvantages faced due to Gender Inequality
One of the main disadvantages that may arise out of gender inequality in Atlas Hotels
is the mental health of the employees, who may face harassment which can lead to anxiety
and depression and lower the level of productivity of that particular employee. Another
disadvantage that is faced by the employees is stress, which is increased due to unfair
treatment on the affected employees (Garawi et al 2014). Level of job satisfaction can also be

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decreased, which may hamper the productivity of that employee and that of the organization
of Atlas Hotels.
Research Methodology
Data Collection
Questionnaires will be used as the primary data collection to gather the data from the
employees of Atlas Hotels. Questionnaires will include close-ended questions (Singh 2017).
Scope and Limitations
Scope
The scope of doing this research will be to find out the disadvantages of inequality in
gender in the organization of Atlas Hotels, which are delivering quality services through their
48 properties in the overall market place of the United Kingdom.
Limitations
One of the major limitations of doing this research is avoidance of filling up the
questionnaire correctly or ethically by the employees who are selected as sample of this
research. It will, thus become difficult to collect the data, which will hamper the process of
overall data collection and adversely affect the research procedure (Chan, Fung and Chien
2013).
Resources and Cost Considerations
Resources like paper along with time and money need to be incurred to carry on this
research on the employees of the organization of Atlas Hotels.

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Gantt Chart
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Selection of topic
Constructing the
Literature Review
Selection of
Appropriate
Methods
Collection of Data
Data Analysis and
Representation
Review of the
derived outcomes
Recommendations
and Conclusion
Project Draft
Submission
Final Submission
Table 1: Table showing the timeframe of the entire research
(Source: Created by the Author)

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Risk Register
The risks along with its size are given as follows:
1. Data collection process – Huge
2. Sample identification – Moderate
3. Technique used - Low

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References
Chan, Z.C., Fung, Y.L. and Chien, W.T., 2013. Bracketing in phenomenology: Only
undertaken in the data collection and analysis process?. The qualitative report, 18(30), p.1.
Garawi, F., Devries, K., Thorogood, N. and Uauy, R., 2014. Global differences between
women and men in the prevalence of obesity: is there an association with gender
inequality?. European journal of clinical nutrition, 68(10), pp.1101-1106.
Ponthieux, S. and Meurs, D., 2015. Gender inequality. In Handbook of income
distribution (Vol. 2, pp. 981-1146). Elsevier.
Singh, A.S., 2017. Common procedures for development, validity and reliability of a
questionnaire. International Journal of Economic, Commerce and Management, 5, pp.790-
801.
User, S. (2020). About Us. [online] Atlashotels.co.uk. Available at:
https://www.atlashotels.co.uk/index.php/about-us [Accessed 29 Jan. 2020].

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