Skills for Higher Education: Literature Review on Equality

This report presents a literature review on the topic of equality in the workplace. It begins by defining the purpose and importance of literature reviews in academic research, emphasizing their role in establishing a theoretical foundation and guiding research direction. The report then focuses on the specific topic of workplace equality, examining various definitions and perspectives from different authors. It explores the concept of equal rights and opportunities for all employees, regardless of factors such as gender, religion, or culture. The review highlights the significance of equality in fostering a positive work environment, promoting employee motivation, and improving organizational outcomes. The report also discusses the role of legislation, such as the UK's Equality Act, in reducing discrimination and promoting equal opportunities. The review concludes by emphasizing the importance of organizational policies, leadership, and government support in maintaining workplace equality, ultimately leading to improved employee satisfaction, performance, and overall organizational success. The assignment aims to summarize and analyze existing research on workplace equality to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Skills for Higher Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................1
ASSESSMENT 2..................................................................................................................................1
1. Literature Review and its purpose...............................................................................................1
2. Literature review on the topic “Equality in the workplace”........................................................2
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Literature review is a part of research which help in explaining that what the research is all
about and what the research want to convey. It is a theoretical part which is used for detailing about
the specific topic on which research is all about. The role of literature review is very important in
research and dissertation, as it's approval make that the research or thesis is in right direction.
Equality at work place refers equal and same rights and opportunities provided by an organisation
to their employees, so that they do not feel like they are facing some type of discrimination in
organisation (Assiter, 2017). Following research will help in getting knowledge about the specific
issues explained by literature review, along with scope and appropriateness of it. Along with this,
different view point of authors will come in study.
ASSESSMENT 2
1. Literature Review and its purpose
Literature review is a describing paper that detail about the information about the field of
study along with related and authenticated findings. This also consist of theoretical description of
the research and data over specific topic. Literature review is a part in research which is build up of
data which is collected via secondary research method and this part do not have any type of
experimental or practical work. In general terms, this part is written by academic – oriented
literature and these articles are commonly found in academic books and journals. This help in
providing important and authenticated base to a research on a special topic. Literature review is one
of the most important part of academic work of graduation and post – graduation. It is also an
essential tool for making some articles for journals, thesis and dissertations. Literature review is one
the most important and necessary part of thesis, and dissertations, where research proposals get
created and it is needed to get approval of it. After getting this approval only the thesis and
dissertation get started. This also help in summarizing and explaining the current status of the
research on a specific topic ( Johnson and et. al, 2016). The main focus of Literature review is on
determining the main point and perceptions of author, that what are their intentions behind their
articles. At university level, there are two types of literature reviews which are asked by their
students for writing. First of these two is stand – alone assignment and the other one is written
descriptively, which is a part of introduction in a research project, dissertation or thesis. It is
important for researcher to identify different data sources which are used earlier by other
researchers, so that their research get better and more authenticated. It is very important for a
researcher to review their part of literature review, as this help them in knowing that what come
before and what will and what will not be help full for another individuals. Literature review is a
part which help in knowing the abilities and understanding of the researcher.

According to Randolph, J.J, Making a literature review is a process of briefing the
information which is given by an author over a specific field of study, and this can be done via
identifying it's key variables, methods and theories. The main intent of literature review is to make a
report on the informations and content which is given on a particular topic ( Moore and Morton,
2017). This also include their strengths and weaknesses in accordance to observe the agreed
academic viewpoint on the subject while at the same time letting organisation to ascertain the
disagreements on the same topic. Also, the main reason behind the literature review is to describe
and establish the information over the subject. Also it help in explaining each point, that what it
want to say. The main goal of literature review is to detail about the ground level information on a
particular topic. The main aim of the part of literature review is to identify the additional
requirements for research.
2. Literature review on the topic “Equality in the workplace”
A survey of books, articles and other sources which can give information or some data about
a specific topic is known as Literature review. It help in making description, summary and critical
evaluation of that study, and then related research questions get analysed. Also, there are some
problems which are associated with literature review, one of them that, it is a long, continuous and
huge time consuming process, which get compiled over the research work. Along with this, the
anther major problem is literature review has become one of the most common and prime method of
collecting data in the historical research. Along with this, the scope of literature review get vary and
fluctuates at every single point in the research which directly depends on the specific topic.
Literature review can be a piece of huge work or can be a single and alone article. Literature review
use to concentrates on themes, approaches, methodologies, theories and frames. That's why,
literature review is said to be the most important part of every research, thesis or dissertation.
According to the O'Flaherty and Phillips (2015), Equality refers to honest and fair treatment
which is given to people related to their gender, opportunities, rights, impairment, belief,
nationality, age and sexuality. At work place, equality refers to providing equal opportunities, and
chances to the employees of organisation and do not have any policy of differentiation among their
employees. This is very much required for superiors of organisation to treat every one equally,
without any discrimination. Equality at the place of working refers to provide equal rights to their
employees for satisfy the basic needs, along with their demands of development.
According to Laski, Equality means that, it is very much important for organisation that
they do not treat their employees according to their society and rituals or by their cast. It is also
important for them to to respect each and every employee according to their designations and must
get equal respect as other get along with rights in organisation which are necessary for them.
According to Barker, Equality at work place is known as giving equal rights to all the

employees and also the termination of special rights. After reading and understanding the different
perceptions of various authors, the researcher came to a conclusion where they find that, the
definitions of different authors over “Equality at work place” are almost similar and they are just
want to say that equality at work place means providing equal rights and respect to each and every
employees working in organisation. They do not have to make any type of discrimination among
them due to any cause like, their religion, culture or any other. Providing equal rights and
opportunities help an organisation in making effective environment for each and every employee
and also for employer. It required for superiors that they provide proper respect to their
subordinates, and do not attain some unwanted benefits of their position in organisation and if some
one do so, then employees must have some rights so that they can fight against it. Equality act of
UK helped many employees by keeping themselves safe as this reduces the unlawful and
discrimination-al activities and help them in providing more and equal opportunities so that they
can grow ( Kucel and et.al, 2016). Equality in work place is very important as it increase the respect
of individual's beliefs, backgrounds or practices, and also analyse the importance of a diversity
approaches to a problem. This help an organisation to increase the flexibility at work place, so that
their employees can give their best and perform better. It also help in knowing the roles and
responsibilities which each and every employees which they has to play for achieving the goals and
objectives.
According to D.D Raphall, It is required for organisation to have a clear process which use
to deal with complaints and issues faced by their stakeholder regarding to equality. It is also very
essential for them to have equality policies so that they can easily make proper and same rights.
Making equality in business environment help employees in creating a peaceful environment, which
lead them to create proper opportunities for them, which can help in growing and developing
themselves. While on other hand, still now it is not very easy for any organisation] to make a proper
set of quality at their work place, where each and every employee have equal right. Also, due to
internal and external factors also it is not easy for any organisation to have proper and complete
equality in their organisation ( Lai and Hong, 2015). Literature review is also known as study of
research, and the main purpose of this is to analyse the relationship and connection between
different works and functions. Along with this, literature review is a detailed part of the
bibliography, which have details about the different authors and their definitions, which they have
provided over a specific topic. Making a proper analysis in this part of research help in reducing the
errors and also help in identifying the issues and problems that will come during research. When it
come to the scope of literature review it is very vast in nature, but it is needed to get evaluated by
principle work, which is important in the field. An organisation need to face some limitations and
issues only because of lack in equality in work place. These problem include, unsolved conflicts,

different culture, different thinkings and opinions. This all can create huge problem for organisation
if they have discrimination in their premisses.
For an organisation, it is not only their duty or it is not the duty of their leaders and
managers to maintain the equality in their organisation for employees, it is very important for them
to have support from government of nation along with a strong structure of equality management.
Making equality in organisation, increases the clarity among employees about the roles and
responsibilities, which help employees in improving their performance. Lack in agreements of
equality can decrease the interest of employees with in the organisation. By providing proper set of
equality in an organisation, employees get equal and same opportunities for growing and
developing themselves, which help them in improving their job satisfaction. It also help employees
in getting motivated and also help them in knowing that how other employees are getting motivated
( Ding, Wei and Mollohan, 2016). It is very important for an organisation to have leaders and
managers who can follow the set of equality in organisation in proper manner, so that the reputation
of organisation get improved in market. All this help in improving the sales of organisation and also
applying concept of equality can help them in showing their beliefs and compliance to the public.
Therefore, it is important for organisation to have equality at work place, as it help in making
employees happy, which can lead to introducing many positive outcomes in the organisation ( Tran,
2015). This also help in achieving the desired goals and objectives for employees as well as for
organisation as well.
CONCLUSION
From the above research, it has been concluded that literature review is very important part
of a research as well as for dissertations and for thesis also. It is required for a researcher to make a
proper literature review on their topic, so that the research get completed in effective manner. Along
with this, it is theoretical part what is made up by the study of different articles published over
inline sources, newspapers, blogs and etc. Literature review is the part which can be said as article
of research or dissertations, which are required to be get approval, so that the direction of research
do goes wrong. The above research is about “Equality at work place”, and equality refers to
providing same and equal opportunities and respect to their employees. This increase the
satisfaction of employees and also help in making a peaceful environment in organisation.

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