Impact of Ethical Behavior on Equality and Diversity at Sainsbury's

This report delves into the critical role of ethical behavior in managing equality and diversity within the workplace, using Sainsbury's as a case study. It begins by defining equality and diversity, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct by employees and management. The report outlines the aim to identify the impact of ethical behavior on improving company performance, with objectives including understanding ethical behavior, evaluating its influence on equality and diversity, outlining challenges faced by Sainsbury's, and recommending strategies for improvement. The literature review explores the impact of ethical behavior on equality and diversity, the research methodology includes qualitative research, an inductive approach, and the interpretivism philosophy. Data collection involves primary and secondary sources, with a sample of 20 respondents. The report's timeline and references are also included. The report is structured to provide a comprehensive analysis of ethical behavior's impact on fostering a fair and inclusive workplace environment, identifying challenges and offering strategies for improvement within Sainsbury's.

EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY IN THE
WORKPLACE

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background.................................................................................................................................3
Aim and objectives......................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................4
TIMELINE.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Background
Managing equality and diversity is the essential need for the company to get successful in
managing business. Hence, the equality is referred to as the act of treating all the employees
working within the company on same level according to their capacity and capability. On the
other side the diversity is defined as recruiting the employees form the different cultural
background so that there are a wide variety of cultures within the company (Wright, Hassan and
Park, 2016). In managing the equality and diversity the major important thing is that the
employees behave in the ethical manner. This is because if the employees and management will
not work on moral principles and carry on their working with ethical behaviour then the
company will not be able to manage equality and diversity.
The present report is based on company Sainsbury which is a large chain of retail stores
and supermarket within the company. The company is headquartered in London in UK and was
founded by John James Sainsbury in the year 1869. The company is a large chain of stores which
deals in different superstore, hyper store, forecourt shop, convenience stores and many others.
The current research will outline the fact that how the ethical behaviour of the employees assist
the company in managing the equality and diversity within the workplace.
Aim and objectives
Aim
“To identify the impact of ethical behaviour in managing equality and diversity for improving
performance of company. A study on Sainsbury.”
Objectives
 To understand the concept of ethical behaviour.
 To evaluate the influence of ethical behaviour on managing equality and diversity with
respect to Sainsbury.
 To outline the challenges being faced by Sainsbury in managing the ethical behaviour
within the company.
 To recommend some strategies for improvising the ethical behaviour of employees
within Sainsbury.
Research questions

1. What is the concept of ethical behaviour?
2. What is the influence of ethical behaviour in managing equality and diversity?
3. What are the challenges being faced by company in managing ethical behaviour within
company?
Rationale
The major reason for selecting the research topic is that many companies are suffering from the
problems of equality and diversity and ethical behaviour will help the company in managing
these problems. Also, another major reason is the academic and personal interest of researcher as
they want to learn how to deal with the problem of equality and diversity with help of behaviour
of the employees.
LITERATURE REVIEW
In the views of Papadimitri, Pasiouras and Tasiou, (2020) ethical behaviour includes the
way a person must behave within the company. This is majorly pertaining to the fact that if the
employees will not behave in the ethical manner then company will not be able to manage
equality and diversity. Hence, for the minimization of the equality and diversity the only option
is working and behaving in better and morally correct manner.
But as per the opinion of Hunt, (2019) articulates that the most important influence of
ethical behaviour in managing equality and diversity is positive. This is majorly due to the fact
that when it comes to managing equality then it is very essential for the employees to work in
proper and effective manner. If the employees will work in more effective manner then the
company will manage the working style and environment.
In against of this Trentesaux and Karnouskos (2019) argues that the major challenge in
managing ethical behaviour is the thinking and mentality of the employees working in the
company. This is due to the fact that many of the people think that the preference of the some
people will make the environment of the company in biasness.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Methods Meaning
Research types The research type that will be used in this
research is qualitative because the researcher
wants to gain theoretical knowledge relating to

the research topic.
Research approach The approach for research will be inductive as
the researcher want to develop aim and
objective and then to reach to some conclusion.
Research philosophy The interpretivism philosophy will be used as
this integrates the human effort in the study
and is more suitable for the company.
Data collection Both primary and secondary sources will be
used as this will assist researcher in collecting
more reliable and valid data.
Sampling The sample of 20 respondent of the company
will be selected in order to conduct the
research in good and effective manner.
Data analysis For this thematic analysis of the data will take
place as this includes the use of tables, graphs
and charts.
TIMELINE
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Selection of
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Formulation of
aim and
objectives
Literature
Review
Research
methodology
Data analysis

Recommendatio
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Conclusion

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hunt, M., 2019. Parliament and ethical behaviour. In Ethics in public service for the new
millennium (pp. 23-34). Routledge.
Papadimitri, P., Pasiouras, F. and Tasiou, M., 2020. Do national differences in social capital and
corporate ethical behaviour perceptions influence the use of collateral? Cross-country
evidence. Journal of Business Ethics, pp.1-20.
Trentesaux, D. and Karnouskos, S., 2019, October. Ethical Behaviour Aspects of Autonomous
Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems. In International Workshop on Service Orientation
in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing (pp. 55-71). Springer, Cham.
Wright, B.E., Hassan, S. and Park, J., 2016. Does a public service ethic encourage ethical
behaviour? Public service motivation, ethical leadership and the willingness to report
ethical problems. Public Administration. 94(3). pp.647-663.