A Study on Equality and Diversity in the Workplace: Accor Hotel Report

This report analyzes equality and diversity within Accor Hotels, covering various aspects such as project aims, objectives, project management plans, and Gantt charts. The research employs both primary and secondary data collection methods, including questionnaires, to assess employee perspectives on workplace equality and diversity. The study investigates the benefits of diversity on employee performance and identifies strategies for enhancing equality. It also includes a literature review, research questions, and a detailed discussion of research methods, including quantitative approaches and sampling techniques. The report concludes with recommendations based on the findings and data analysis, reflecting on the overall project understanding and its implications for fostering an inclusive work environment within Accor Hotels.

Equality and Diversity at workplace: A
study on Accord Hotel

TOPIC:.............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
. Discuss the project related aims and objectives on the basis of opted scenario........................3
Project management plan.............................................................................................................5
P3. Illustrate the framework of Gantt chart to provide time frames and stages for completion..6
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................8
Applying Small Scale research....................................................................................................8
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................11
.Covered in PPT.........................................................................................................................11
Illustrate the optimum recommendation of findings and data analysation................................14
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................15
Highlight the research reflection on the basis of project understanding...................................15
CONCLUSION:............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

TOPIC:
“ To identify the Equality and Diversity in the workplace.” on based of Accor Hotels.
INTRODUCTION
In the perspective of organisation, the role of equality and diverse workforce it comprise
about the equal opportunity driven in the internal premises of an organisation, To attain certain
goals and objectives, for particular company they require to measure their performances and
implement different sort of strategies and policies which are under policies or compliances
oriented that leads to the successive planning and support to accomplish the proper gaols at
particular period of time (Polonsky and Waller, 2018). In this research report, the organisation is
considered Accor Hotels, It is French multinational hospitality venture that owns, and having
many franchise hotels and luxuries resort related properties. In this report the topic is covered
literature review with assuming the aims and objectives, elaborating project management plan,
explanation of Gantt Chart, research methods and reflection of research.
Task 1.
. Discuss the project related aims and objectives on the basis of opted scenario.
The role of Equality and Diversity is most essential part of the business aspect where it
needed to maintain and having regular practise could bring positive working environment. By
enhancing different traits of policies implement by the specific business which procure the work
specification improves along with employees productivity through which favourable outcomes
generates. From the influence of equality and diversity policies, business can increase their
accountability to accomplish their targets with high efficiency (Rowden, 2017). For further
aspect it requires the aims and objectives where little modification is incurred and it also provide
guidance to attain overall objectives which can be fulfil through research aims and objectives.
Aims:
“ To measure the different kind of policies that is assort by the organisation to enhance
the practise of Equality in the workplace activities.” This case is based on Accor Hotels.
Objectives:
 To identify the role of the equality and diversity in the workplace.

 To investigate the benefits of equality and diversity in employees performance.
 To highlight the strategies for enhancing the equality and diversity in the workplace.
Research Questions:
 What is the role played by equality and diversity in workplace?
 What are the benefits of equality and diversity which helps to increase the employee
performances?
 How strategies of equality and diversity could be identified by the organisation?
Literature review:
1. To identify the role of equality and diveristy in the workplace.
As per the opinion of Ruth Mayhew, 2017, The main existence of equality and diverse
workplace is ensure about to measure that each and every employee should get the equal
opportunities at the particular period of time, policies and principles are constructed for
enhancing the equal treatment where it will allows the positive environment (Halibozek and
Kovacich, 2017). As in context of Accor Hotels, the role of equality and diversity would play an
important aspect as it can improvised their working culture and comprises different form of
compliances which construct in the favour of performance and growth purpose.
2. To investigate the benefits of equality and diversity in employees performance.
According to the Louise Petty, 2016. By having the utilisation of Equality and Diversity
practises in the organisation where the positive impact in the business as per the aim to promote
the better accessibility and opportunity divided to the employees in a similar way of process and
get to promoted. It is been utilised to enhance new skills and attributes of employees for their
better performance productivity. Personal value or goodwill is also get promoted by deliverables
of high productive performances, Team work efficiency increases by supporting from other team
mates where it generates the positive outcomes (Bell and Harrison eds., 2018).
3. To highlight the strategies which enhancing and equality and diversity in the workplace.
On the perspective of Lynne Callister, 2019, As per the organisation perspective the
strategies can be implements for mapping the wise judgement and equal opportunity driven that
improves the performance. The strategies is constructed to commencing the regular practise of
equality and diversity, as per Accor Hotels their managers are use to instruct their culture to the
employees where they can easily understands and adpated the changes which would brings the
productivity in their performances (Nicholas and Steyn, 2017). Some of the rules such as

harassment, bullying, discrimination and other grievances eliminated with the influence of
equality and diversity. Polices and guidelines are encourage to improvising the decision making
process of Accor Hotel's Manger.
Project management plan
It is basically a formal hand written document that provides and facilitates all needed
information associated with conduction and leading a project work. The main elements and
factors of project management plan that defines and evaluate the main aspects on going project is
provided below:
Cost- It represent the amount of expanses and actual cast incurred for carrying out various
expenses and activities associated with a research work. Basically it represent the total amount of
finance and monetary funds needed to carry out and complete a research project. For this
particular project lead out on Accor hotels following estimated budget is prepared (Mirakyan and
Golomejic, 2019).
The estimated cost of current investigation on Accor hotels is around £68000 which
comprises of cost of research tools, training and development and other miscellaneous expense.
Time: This element of project management plan depicts about the time period and
duration of conducting a research project. It has been estimated that a time period of around 3-5
weeks re required to complete current investigation in an efficient and accurate manner
(Kolachi , 2019).
Scope- It basically represent the future aspect of an current investigation which reflects
the extent of a work. The scope of current investigation on Accor hotels is wide enough which
comprises of in-depth analysis and evaluation of concept of equality and diversity.

Quality- It is basically a representatives of level of effectiveness and reliability of data
collected for completion of a project and leading out a study. To maintain the quality level of
investigation and to ensures reliability and authenticity of collected data, use and implication of
viable and suitable research method is made.
Communication- This element consists of information regarding the modes and channels
of communication that are adopted by a researcher to ensures an effective and efficient
connection and interaction with respondents and team members (Young, 2016). With respect to
current investigation use and implication of online modes of communication would be made
which consists of social media, e-mails and digital forms of technology to set a fact and efficient
interaction and connection with respondents.
Risk- This factors indicates the main issues and barriers that are encountered by a
researcher during the course of investigation. The main barrier and risk faced by research during
current investigation on Accor hotels is associated with lack of sufficient amount of resources
and limited time period (Artto, Ahola and Vartiainen, 2016). Thus, to overcome these issues use
and implication of Gantt chart and Work break down structure is made to ensure better
bifurcation of resources in efficient way along with better management of time duration for
completion of project in efficient way.
Resources- There are a set of viable resources and assets which are used and applied by a
researcher to conduct and lead out a project. With regard to current investigation on Accor hotels
use and application of financial resources, human resources and other statistical tools and
techniques are made along with use of internet and computer to ensure and lead valid collection
and analysis of data to achieve desired and set objectives (Morozov, Kalnichenko and Liubyma,
2017).
P3. Illustrate the framework of Gantt chart to provide time frames and stages for completion.
Gantt Chart: It is the framework of the bar chart that represented illustrates as per the
project schedule that shows the relationship between the current research project time duration
along with highlight the complete days or week spend during the collected the data of research
which is essential for the specific research project that fulfil the objectives (Troutman, 2019).

Work Breakdown Structure: According to this structure, it helps to instruct the
researcher which divide the overall project into different segmentation or position where all task
whose having the high dependency is implement in effective procedure (Archibald and
Archibald, 2016). Therefore, the more research clarity is commenced by better analysation of
overall project or task that help to reduces the unwanted errors for attain positive outcome.
Task 2.
Applying Small Scale research.
It is usually optimise work through proper procedure manner by certain methods of
inquiry and demonstrate the strength and weakness of different approaches for better
understanding to gaining the expected outcomes for more knowledge of specific report.

Quantitative Method: According to this method, the information of data is been
gathered in form of numeric form such statistical formulation, arithmetic representation through
this support to identify the proper facts and finding of research.
Qualitative Method: In this method, the data information is formulated and collected in
theoretical based to form up the questionnaire, formulation of feedback that supports to make the
optimum knowledge on the basis of related research topic (Butler, Vijayasarathy and Roberts,
2020).
In this research the method is determined the Quantitative Method, as the researcher is
seeking for arithmetic form of data information to framing the questionnaire while uses of
qualitative method is not to be selected as it optimise the detailed information.
Sources of data Collection:
It reflect the idea about the data from where it collected or the origin of the data from
where it obtain.
 Primary Sources: In this source of data information is gathered by the researcher in the
form of questionnaire, survey, group discussion or feedback to generates the productive
outcomes.
 Secondary Source: On the basis of this source of data is been collected from where the
data is having already existence in the market in other sources like articles books, novels,
newspaper, internet etc. through these resources it helps to the researcher for generating the
outcomes as in proper manner (Cooke-Davies, 2016).
From the sources of data collection the researcher has selected both primary and
secondary, as primary is used for framing questionnaire and attain the information from own
efforts while secondary source is managing the facts and findings of data information of primary
data.
Sampling: In this sampling, the researcher opted for a target from the particular group
that influence through wide population size to fulfil the research. By considering the simple
random sampling, which stats about the simple subset of individual selected from a larger set.
The selection of each individual is chosen as randomly on the basis of probability (Gama, Sjödin
and Frishammar., 2017).
Sample Size: To selects the 30 respondent of Employees of Accor Hotels as sample size
Questionnaire

Quantitative Questions:
Q1. Do you know about the Equality inside at the workplace?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2. Do you agree that there is a practise of Equality and Diversity in Accor Hotel
premises?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3.Does employees are satisfied with the working diverse culture in Accor Hotel?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4. Which of the regular process opted by Accor Hotel that shows the practise of
Equality and Diversity activity?
a) Unbaisness of Hiring process.
b) Conducting of miscellaneous work.
Q5. What are the initiative that is taken by Accor Hotels while inducing equality in the
business?
a) Enhancing of Employee Engagement activities

b) Communicate with employees for their issues
c) providing the optimum values or business related information to employees.
Q6. What is the positive impacts of equality and diversity within the employees of
business?
a) Advancement of innovation.
b) Improvise the image.
c) Enhance advantages of competition.
Task 3.
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Yes No
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Response

Advancement of Innovation
Improvise the image
Enhance advantages of competitions
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Illustrate the optimum recommendation of findings and data analysation.
On the basis of predicting the research outcomes and the implication or challenges which
is been faced during the research process of Equality and Diversity within the presence of
business under this existence in Accor Hotels (Rahman, Wittman and Thabet, 2016). The issues
and challenges is to manage and analysation in the large time duration for not getting negative

influence. As per the outcomes which generates through conducting several research methods
which procure the better understanding about the positive and negative impact of Equality and
Diversity in Accor hotels , as many of employees are satisfied and agree with the activities of
Equality but there are other workers who are satisfied as well as they are having their own
grievances are unsolved. There are few recommendations for Accor hotels management team as
elaborated below:
 The most important part of equality and diversity activity implements in similar platform.
The managers of Accor hotel need to analyse each and every aspect of issues of all employees
and provide them a optimum solutions as well as enhance their skills and other abilities that
reflects their transparency in their working abilities.
 By having a clarity of goals, objectives and communication aspect to easily presumes the
business opportunities driven. Provides them effective training and development to make them
understand about the new learning factor of business which influence towards their targets for
successful accomplish purpose.
 To making engage of employees involvement is more essential through this more
participation could help to generate better coordination among with peers and develop to
accommodate for pursuing work as individually and team work to achieve all the goals which
incurred in organisation perspective (Kassel, 2016.).
Targeted Audience
In this report eth target audience are highlighted the Accor company employees and
superiors who are facing Equality and diversity in their workplace organisation. Meanwhile,
some of employees and superiors are full satisfied with the situation that enhance better equality
and diversity infrastructure.
Facts and Findings:
Through above graphs shown the data related on specific questions which having
involvement of Equality and Diversity. As after realisation in upper graphs structure in there 80%
employees are standing with the point of having Equality and Diversity in Accor Hotels and rest
20% are not concerned about the situation.

Task 4.
Highlight the research reflection on the basis of project understanding.
At the time of conducting the research, I have gain and scrutinize more knowledge and
information related with equality and diversity as its impact on the business. It is the basic
understanding of organisation culture which they opted for better equality and diversity enables
in their positive workplace for enhance skills and other competency attributes of individual
employees as they retain motivated and accomplish the targets which would generates positive
outcomes. When I collected data information related to the my research topic it makes obsessed
and found very interesting agenda to study about equality and diversity practise in Accor Hotel
venture, as this organisation comes under Hospitality industry (Butler, Vijayasarathy and
Roberts, 2020). By applying different research method to deeply analysation through which I
have gained many learning knowledge and faces challenges when I implies Quantitative research
Method for basic framing of questionnaire to measure and collects the actual facts and findings
apart from it I implemented both primary and secondary source of data collection for collecting
the data information and manage to fit in questionnaires to highlight the respondents perspective
about equality and diversity in Accor hotel. By approaching of Gantt chart representation it
shows the total timing consumption for conducting the research. I have faces many sort of
challenges while making with interaction with the employees as their behaviour get fluctuates
when they get assigned the high work pressure in different situation. Therefore, it was very hard
to understand and interpret as per their perception that implies certain changes. But it is
formulated that the company induces different strategies and take adequate and needed initiative
in order to make certain modification (Baker and Burga, 2016). At the moment of research
project completion it have generates the essentials factor that improves project as valuable as I
have worked on project management that depicts about the overall expenses incurred in research
that support to the flexibility of services to indicates the implementation of resources, quality,
cost, time and scope etc. that modified the changes in systematic manner. I get the support from
questionnaire and with the help of it able to collect the appropriate information which is needed
to conclude the impact of equality and assortment within the business (Whyte, Stasis and
Lindkvist, 2016). Through this I had tried to remain more composed and calm as per the
dependency of work with this make specific decision making along with the support of academic
skills through which perfect result is attained on timely basis.

CONCLUSION:
As per the above research report, as comes to conclude by highlight and explains about
the topics which implies different strategies that distributed the time and making ensure for the
outcomes should generates in the positives that brings the development of business. Through the
data information get collected from various implies of research methods and sources of data
collection for framing questionnaire. Quantitative and Primary as well as Secondary sources of
data collection has been selected and analysation of further details according to the similar
procedure. At Last the framing of questionnaires supported to collection the data information and
reaching to the outcomes along with the reflection of research.

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