Analyzing Gender Diversity Impact on M&S Performance and Turnover

This research proposal examines the impact of gender diversity on employee turnover and overall performance at Marks and Spencer (M&S). It aims to identify the ratio of male and female employees, analyze employee turnover, sales, and profitability data over the last five years using secondary data sources like M&S annual reports and news articles. The study poses research questions about gender diversity's influence on employee turnover and performance, utilizing variables such as gender diversity, employee turnover, sales, and profitability. The proposal outlines data collection methods, literature search terms, and relevant references, focusing on the importance of gender diversity in multinational organizations, particularly in senior management roles. The research seeks to determine whether gender diversity positively or negatively impacts employee turnover and company performance, addressing a significant challenge for organizational management.

Running head: IMPACT OF GENDER DIVERSITY ON EMPLOYEE TURNOVER
AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF THE MARKS AND SPENCER.
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IMPACT OF GENDER DIVERSITY ON EMPLOYEE TURNOVER AND OVERALL
PERFORMANCE OF THE MARKS AND SPENCER.
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IMPACT OF GENDER DIVERSITY ON EMPLOYEE TURNOVER AND
OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF THE MARKS AND SPENCER.
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Research Proposal Outline
Field of Research
Gender diversity means an equal presentation between genders and offer an equal
opportunity to men and women. It is one of the major challenge for multinational organization.
Specifically, in the senior management teams gender diversity has become very high issue in
current scenario (Peretz, Levi and Fried, 2015). There are number of organizations that don’t
follow the employment Act in effective manner and create discrimination among employees on
the basis of gender, race, color, religion. All these issues may influence the performance of
employees as well and performance of company also. Sometimes, employee discrimination
increases the job dissatisfaction which may increase the employee turnover and decline the sales
and profitability of the firm. So, gender diversity is one of the major challenge for management
of the organizations. Marks and Spencer focuses on maintaining Gender Diversity at workplace
and allow female employees in board of directors also. So, author has decided to determine the
impact of gender diversity on performance and employee turnover of the Marks and Spencer in
last five years (Kakabadse and et al, 2015).
Aim
Impact Gender diversity on employee turnover and performance of the Marks and Spencer.
Objectives
 To identify the ratio of male and female employees of the Marks and Spencer.
 To collect and analyze the data about the employee turnover, sales and profitability of the
Marks and Spencer.
 To critically analyze impact of gender diversity on employee turnover, sales and
profitability of Marks and Spencer.
Research Question
1. What is the major difference between number of male and female employees of Marks
and Spencer?
2. Whether gender diversity will increase or decrease the employee turnover and
performance of Marks and Spencer?
Variables: Gender Diversity, employee turnover, sales and profitability.
Secondary Data
For analyzing the last five year’s gender diversity, employee turnover and sales and
profitability of Marks and Spencer Author needs to collect the past data of the company. So, for
obtaining the relative information author will use the secondary data collection method (Rao and
Tilt, 2016). Regarding this, author will use the different sources such as website of the company,
annual report, news articles and literature review. This data will be appropriate because it will
help in analyzing the impact of gender diversity on employee turnover and performance of the
Marks and Spencer. Author will collect the numerical information of all the variables by which
study can easily apply statistical analysis method for analyzing the secondary data (Ntim, 2015).
Major source for collecting the secondary data will be last five years annual report of the Marks
and Spencer. Data source:
http://annualreport.marksandspencer.com/M&S_AR2017.pdf
http://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/OTC_MAKSF_2016.pdf

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https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/documents/reports-results-and-publications/annual-
reports/annual-report-x2015.pdf
https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/documents/reports-results-and-publications/annual-
reports/annual-report-2014.pdf
https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/documents/reports-results-and-publications/annual-
reports/annual-report-2013.pdf
Literature Search Term
Gender Diversity, Employee turnover, Sales, Profitability, Marks and Spencer, male and
female employee.
Merged Articles and Reference List
Kakabadse, N. K., Figueira, C., Nicolopoulou, K., Hong Yang, J., Kakabadse, A. P., & Özbilgin,
M. F. (2015). Gender diversity and board performance: Women's experiences and
perspectives. Human Resource Management, 54(2), 265-281.
Ntim, C. G. (2015). Board diversity and organizational valuation: unravelling the effects of
ethnicity and gender. Journal of Management & Governance, 19(1), 167-195.
Peretz, H., Levi, A., & Fried, Y. (2015). Organizational diversity programs across cultures:
effects on absenteeism, turnover, performance and innovation. The International Journal
of Human Resource Management, 26(6), 875-903.
Rao, K., & Tilt, C. (2016). Board composition and corporate social responsibility: The role of
diversity, gender, strategy and decision making. Journal of Business Ethics, 138(2), 327-
347.