A Report on Gender Pay Gap Causes and Effects on Ford's Workforce

This report investigates the impact of the gender pay gap on workforce performance at Ford Motor Company. It outlines the aim and objectives of the study, including evaluating the understanding of the gender pay gap in the context of equality and diversity, assessing the negative consequences of not maintaining gender pay equity, analyzing the challenges Ford faces in managing the gender pay gap, and recommending best practices for mitigating its impact. The project management plan details the scope, budget, timeline, quality control measures, stakeholder communication, and potential risks. The literature review highlights the discriminatory nature of gender-based pay disparities and their detrimental effects on employee motivation and organizational performance. The research methodology employs a qualitative approach with an inductive design and interpretivism philosophy, utilizing both primary data collected through surveys and secondary data from journals and articles, analyzed through thematic analysis. The findings reveal a general awareness of the gender pay gap among Ford's workforce, its significant mental impact on employees, and mixed perceptions regarding Ford's policies to address the issue. The report concludes that conservative thinking poses a major challenge to managing the gender pay gap and emphasizes the potential for maintaining gender pay equity to reduce recruitment costs.

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INTRODUCTION
Background
In rapidly changing environment it gets very challenging for the Quoted firm to manage
the impact of gender pay gap. There are many variant type of aspect which run this sort of the
impact in the Ford. Ford Motor Quoted firm, is one of the biggest auto mobile Quoted firm is the
UK industry. Ford is also facing the same problem for the same reason report will assists the
Quoted firm in solving the issue. This report highlights Aim and objective and Project
management plan. Than report explain type of methodology to conduct the study (Taherdoost,
2016). After that report explain primary and secondary study and recommendation on grounding
of same,
Aim and Objective
Aim
“To ascertain the causes of Gender pay gap on work force performance at workplace. A study
ground on Ford”.
Objectives
 To evaluate understanding of Gender pay gap in context to Equality and Diversity
 To evaluate the negative cause of not maintaining Gender pay gap at workplace
 To analyse variant challenges occurs for ford in managing Gender pay gap
 To pass on best alternative through which impact of Gender pay gap can be manage in
the Ford.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
Scope: Conducting this project for the ford has ultimately create miscellanea of the
opportunity and scope of analysing the current situation which is prevailing in working place in
context of maintaining the gender pay gap. Also, assists the Quoted firm in seeing the variant
alternative and on the grounding of the same one alternative will be chosen in the Ford to reduce
the impact of gender pay gap.
Budget: Budget mostly define the amount of the money which need to be invested by
the Ford. For the current study ford will require minimum of 500 pounds to be invested in the
study.

Time: the time is the duration which is required for the completion of the whole project
in successful manner. For the current project the time undertaken is approximately 3 weeks and
the Gantt chart is made for the 3 week of time only.
Quality: All the resources and the data and information being used in the study is the of
good quality and all the data are reliable and valid. For managing the quality other companies
study have also been analysed and ensured that the current project is up to the mark with
comparison with other big companies as well (Wang, Ren and Liu, 2017).
Stakeholder and communication: The stakeholder of the project are the one who ae
interested in the success of the project and it is essential for the project owner to communicate all
the project outcomes with the identified stakeholder. The major stakeholder of project is studyer
themselves, LSEC, participants and many others. The communication with them is undertaken
with assists of verbal, written and email communication.
Risk: There are miscellanea of the risk associated with the project, one of the such risk is
selection of the wrong source through variant data has been gather in the project, another
important type of the risk is work force turnover in the process of carrying out study in the Ford.

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LITERATURE REVIEW
As per the views of Graf, Brown and Patten (2018) the pay gap on basis of gender is
referred to as the discrimination which takes place between the workforce on the grounds of
gender and the payment made to the employees. This is very common in most of the companies
that the male workers are earning more salary as compared to the female employees even what
women work with more efficiency.
In against of this Miller and Vagins (2018) claims that when pay gap on the basis gender
is high then the impact is negative over the operations of the business organization. This is
particularly due to the fact that when there is gap in the salary than in that case workers do not
work in good and effective manner as they are not getting the equivalent return for the work they
are performing. Thus, this demotivate the employees and their efficiency to perform the work
decreases and this result in the overall reduction in the performance of business organization.
Also, as per the views of Fortin, Bell and Böhm (2017) there are many different problems
that are being encountered by companies when they try to manage the pay gap on basis of
gender. The major challenge being confronted by the business organization is the conservative
thinking of the workforce. This is due to the fact that most of the people have the older or
traditional thinking that the female cannot work in better and effective manner in the corporate
world. Due to this reason that women employees get payment less in comparison with the male
employees within the corporate sector. In addition to this another major challenge being faced by
companies in managing gender pay gap is employee resistance. This is a major challenge for the
company as sometimes the employees also resist when the females are working in the company
or when the female employees are paid more of the salary or pay to the female employees.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Type: Conducting the miscellanea of the variant type of activity with the
purpose of finding out solution of concern of Quoted firm is known as study. Qualitative study
and Quantitative study are two broadly study (Snyder, 2019). Qualitative study looks at
information and outcome in non numerical form, on the same note time Quantitative study type
is the study which presents the outcome in the numerical form .For current study, scholar has
trusted qualitative study type.

Research Approaches: A step of the broad assumption in regards to the miscellanea of
the variant activity related to Data collection and Analysis. Inductive and Deductive are two
broadly recognized study Approach. Deductive one test the already made theory in the past, on
the same note time inductive approach looks at drafting the new theory on the grounding of
outcome derived. For this study scholar has trusted the inductive study type as it assists the type
of study selected.
Research philosophy: philosophy mostly consider at conducting the in-depth study in
context of the belief of conducting study. Positivism and interpretivism are two recognized
philosophies in the field of study. Positivism philosophy look at considering the actual fact and
universal truth behind the study, on the same note time interpretivism philosophy looks at
looking at human perspective involve in study. For the current study interpretivisim study
philosophy selected.
Data collection: Efficiency of outcome of the study is ground on the quality of the data
gathered in the study. Primary and Secondary are two data collection tool which are consumer at
the study. Primary is the one in which data gathered for very first time, on the same note time
secondary data is the one which is gathered in the past as well. In this study survey is the primary
collection tool. Secondary data will be gathered by the way of journal and article related to study.
Data analysis: In the study miscellanea of the variant data gathered will be analysed with
the assists of thematic data analysis. In which variant graph and theme will be made (Mousa,
2018).
Sampling: For the current study, probabilistic sampling will be select the sample size.
50 work force of Ford has been chosen as a sample size to conduct the study for the Ford.
DATA ANALYSIS
Theme 1: familiarity in regards to Gender pay gape
Particular Participant % of participant
Yes 48 96
No 4 8
Total 50 100