Identifying Equality and Diversity in the Workplace: A Business Report

This report examines the crucial roles of equality and diversity in the workplace, focusing on how companies address related issues. The report begins with an introduction that defines equality and diversity and highlights their importance in fostering a positive and productive work environment. The first task outlines the aims and objectives of the report, including an evaluation of equality and diversity's significance, an investigation of common issues, and an analysis of their impact on organizational culture. A project management plan is presented, detailing costs, timelines, and risk assessments. The report also includes a discussion of project management tools, such as WBS structures and Gantt charts. The research methodology involves both qualitative and quantitative methods, with data collected through primary and secondary sources. A case study of Air France is used to analyze the participation of women in top management, success achievements, and perceptions of feminism in relation to gender equality. The analysis of the data reveals insights into the challenges and successes of promoting equality and diversity in a real-world business context.

Business Management

Topic- “To identify the way in which companies have responded to current issues of equality
and diversity in the workplace
INTRODUCTION
Equality refers to keep equal behaviour and opportunity to individual person while
diversity refers to keep such kind peoples who belongs to different culture and region. Equality
and diversity are crucial factors which supports to understand their behaviour and their thinking
regarding culture. Diversity leads different peoples from different region while equality supports
peoples to get fair behaviour. It plays important role at workplace because organization gets
different type of peoples who possess different talent. Employee gets opportunity to understand
each other and learns new talent. Beside of this organization enables to give values each type of
customers in market. To promote diversity at job place equality requires because it offers equal
opportunity to each type of employees to show their talent at workplace. Equality maintains
well-being of each employee at workplace which promotes employees to give the best
performance at workplace. It also gives values to each culture which boost employee’s self-
esteem regarding their jobs. Both factors support company to take competitive advantage
because different culture or different region has different taste regrading product and services, in
that state organization enables to give values to their customer by offering desired products. It
leads satisfaction of customer and enhance employee’s confidence. Thus, equality and diversity
is important tool at workplace.
TASK 1
P1. Aims and Objectives
Background
For every organisation it is necessary to maintain a positive workplace environment so
that business efficiency is maintained. It is also useful in increasing employee performance as
well. Equality refers to treating all employees within firm in fair and equal way. Diversity refers
to recruiting people without any discrimination. This is because any issue that occur in equality
or diversity highly impact on organisational culture. Moreover, employee performance is also
impacted due to it. Their perception towards organisation becomes negative. However, an
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organisation with high diversity is able to gain competitive advantage in the market. They are
able to promote equality.
But in recent times, many issues related to equality and diversity has emerged. They are
racism, discrimination, gender pay gap, etc. so, these all have resulted in impacting on work
force of airline sector. Beside this, females are highly suffering from that issues as well. Thus,
firms need to focus on solving these issues so that equality is maintained.
Aim
To identify how companies are solving issues of equality and diversity at workplace. A
case study of Air France KLM.
Objectives
 To evaluate importance of equality and diversity at workplace.
 To investigate issues related to equality and diversity
 To analyse impact of issues on organisational culture and workplace
 To investigate strategies that is been used in solving that issues
Questions
 What is importance of equality and diversity at workplace?
 What type of issues occur in equality and diversity?
 How issues impact on organisational culture?
P2. Project Management Plan
Project management plan can be defined as a document that can be used for elaborating
each project phase. It includes planning, execution, implementation, monitoring and controlling
of a project. This plan is used by an organisation to execute a project in an effective manner by
planning all the things in advance. It consists of cost, time, quality, risk, communication, scope
and resource that are associated with a specific project (Brunswicker and Chesbrough, 2018).
Cost- It is the amount of money or budget that is required to meet the objectives
of a specific project. It is the responsibility of a researcher to work within a budget and resources
provided. The cost which is required for executing this project is £2700 and its distribution is
elaborated as follows in total forecasted budget-
Total Forecasted Budget
Particulars Amount
Advertising Expenditure £ 800
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Promotional Expenditure £ 700
Technology Implementing Cost £ 1170
Personal research £ 30
Total Cost £ 2700
Time- It can be defined as a duration within which a specific project is required to be
finished in an appropriate manner. The time set up for establishment and execution of this project
is 12 weeks.
Quality- The quality of a research is good as it is based upon relevant data and all the
necessary information which is required is included in the research report.
Risk- These are the barriers that are associated with a specific project which affects the
overall quality of a research. The risks that are associated with this project is limited period of
time for the completion of this project. (Chirumalla, 2018).
Communication- There should be adequate communication between project manager and
team members for the generation of various ideas and opinions in an organisation. For this
purpose, in this research two way communication is utilised that gave equal opportunity to both
project manager and team members to share their views and opinions.
Scope- The project manager and team members while conducting this research can result
in opening up various opportunities for future. It will help them grow their certain analytical and
research skills which they can use for future job opportunities related. It will also enhance their
time management skills which can help them in doing work on time in future. It will also
enhance their leadership skills which can help them in future.
Resource- For conducting this research, different resources are utilised such as technical,
human, physical and financial resources (Crammond and et. al., 2018).
P3. Tools of Project Management
Project management tools are defined as a tools and techniques which is utilised by
project manager for planning and delegating complete work in one place. These tools are used by
a business to manage a project in an effective manner. There are various tools that can be used in
this research such as Gantt chart and WBS Structure.
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WBS Structure- It is an important project management tool which helps in organising team
work in managerial actions. It is used by project manager to determine the scope of a project in
managerial actions which can be easily understood by each members of a project management
team. This structure is utilised by project manager for properly organising the project work in an
appropriate manner. It also helps in identifying problem areas of the project and the potential
risks which is associated with each project (Graupp and Wrona, 2018).
Gantt Chart- It is a type of bar chart which illustrates a schedule of a project that helps in
showcasing activities between current status of schedule and activities (Gantt Chart, 2019). It is
adjusted on frequent basis for reflecting the real status of tasks of a project.
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TASK 2
P4. Small scale research
Research methodologies are used by researcher to analyse the observed phenomenon.
Such methods helps in showing various tools and techniques that are required for conducting a
research of a specific project and helps in determining various problems that takes place when
research is being conducted (Harmon, 2019). There are basically two methods for conducting a
research which is quantitative and qualitative. In this research, both qualitative and quantitative
method is utilised.
Qualitative Method: This method of conducting a research is used for understanding
motivations, opinions and underlying reasons. It provides insights of a specific problem and
helps in generation and creation of ideas for conducting quantitative research. It consists of
various methods such as interviews, observations and group discussions (Kasim, Haracic, and
Haracic, 2018).
Quantitative Method: This methodology used to conduct a research helps in generating
numerical data which is easily transformable into statistics that can be used. It also uses data
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which is measurable to formulate facts and uncover patter in research. It includes various surveys
like online, mobile, paper,interviews, system observations, online polls and so on.
In this research, both these method are utilised as qualitative method is utilised to
generate ideas for quantitative research. On the other hand, quantitate research generates
numerical data that can be easily transformed into statistics.
Data Collection Sources
Primary Data- It is collected by the project manager from the first hand resources such as
interviews, surveys, etc. . Such kind of data is raw which is gathered by project manager from
primary resources.
Secondary resources- Such data is already gathered by other person and is used by
researcher for conducting a specific research. It saves time by getting high quality data without
doing much research.
In this research, primary resources are utilised to collect data for making it more relevant and
specific.
Sampling- It can be defined as a procedure that is utilised in statistical analysis in which
a specific number of observations are taken from a large population. In order to conduct this
research ,random sampling is taken into action (Mrass, Peters and Leimeister, 2018).
In order to conduct this research, 20 respondents are selected among the stakeholders of
Air France and their views are recorded. For this purpose, a questionnaire is prepared that pays
attention over objectives and aims of a report.
TASK 3
P5 Analysis
Theme 1 Role of equality and diversity in organizational and global requirements
Q-1 Do you think that promoting diversity and equality at Air France can
help in meeting the international and organisational
requirements?
Frequency
Yes 15
No 5
Total 20
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Interpretation:
From the above graph it has been interpreted that 20 out of 15 employees think that
promoting equality and diversity at Air France can help them in meeting both organizational and
international requirements but 5 of them do not agree with the statement. So, it can be said that
promotion of equality and diversity can help organization like Air France in meeting their
requirements, this is because meeting of equality and diversity can help Air France in promoting
excellence, it can also help in increasing employee satisfaction. Other than this it also helps in
developing global opportunity for employees which motivates them to enhance their
performance.
Theme 2 Participation of women in top management
Q-2 What percentage of your top management is women? Frequency
Less than 10% 6
10-30% 5
More than 30% 9
Total 20
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Interpretation:
From the above graph it has been interpreted that 20 out of 9 employees think that More
than 30 percent of Air France top management is Women whereas 5 of them thinks that thinks
that Women at top management of Air France are only between 10-30 percent. But rest of the 6
employees says that women at top management are less than 30 percent. So, from the above
interpretation it cannot be said that what percentage of top management are women. But if
answers of maximum respondents are considered then it can be said that more than 30 percent of
top management if Air France are Women.
Theme 3 Success achievement by men and women
Q-3 Do you believe men and women achieve success at work
differently?
Frequency
Yes 12
No 6
Not sure 2
9
Less than 10%
10-30%
More than 30%
Total

Total 20
Interpretation:
From the above graph it has been interpreted that 20 out of 12 employees think that men
and women achieve success at work differently but answers of all the respondents are not same
in fact 6 of them disagrees with the statement and 2 of them are not even sure whether men and
women achieve success at work differently or in similar manner. So, from the above responses of
the employees it can be analysed that it is true that both men and women at workplace achieve
success in a different manner this is mainly because workplace challenges for men and women
are not always equal.
Theme 4 Feminism movement for gender equality
Q-4 Do you believe feminism is the best movement for gender equality? Frequency
Yes 4
No 12
10
Yes
No
Not sure
Total