Impact of Gender Pay Gap on Equality and Diversity at Nisa

This project investigates the impact of the gender pay gap on equality and diversity within the workplace, using Nisa as a case study. The research explores the concept of equality and diversity, analyzes the effects of the pay gap on employee morale, conflict, and the overall working environment. The methodology includes qualitative research with thematic data analysis, employing surveys to gather primary data from 20 Nisa employees. The findings reveal that while a majority of employees understand the gender pay gap, it negatively impacts mental health and creates challenges related to employee confidence. The study identifies cultural differences and conservative thinking as primary drivers of the pay gap and suggests salary transparency, training, and mentoring as potential strategies for improvement. The project concludes with recommendations for Nisa to reduce the pay gap and foster a more inclusive workforce, supported by a comprehensive literature review and data analysis presented through tables and graphs.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
LO2................................................................................................................................................10
Research methodology.........................................................................................................10
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................12
Data analysis.........................................................................................................................12
Recommendation and conclusion.........................................................................................21
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................22
Reflection.............................................................................................................................22
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................24
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................25

INTRODUCTION
TOPIC
To investigate the impact of gender paying gap in regards to equality & diversity at work
area.
Research background
In rapidly chasing environment, it is extremely difficult for different organizations to
develop a better sort of human resource in Nisa, as there are many different type of challenges
which has to be faced in an organization. Equality & diversity is one of the such challenge. As it
gets difficult for every organization to provide adequate and equivalent opportunities to different
employees to showcase different skill set possess by them. Gender pay gap is a major reason in
the same which used to create variety of the difficulty for the organization to promote equality in
cited firm (Villareal, 2018). Gender pay gap is the average difference existing between the wages
of employee belonging to different gender in cited firm. Nisa, retail organization also facing
same issue in Nisa.
Rationale
The main reason behind choosing this topic is to make a detailed analysis of the factor
which used to promote gender pay gap at the workplace. This is been counted as the major
problem which has been faced by the organization in UK as with the change in the all the
employee in Nisa always look to have the organization which does not discriminate employee on
the gender in Nisa (Quintana-Garcia and Elvira, 2017). This study will provide good hand
support the researcher in finding out the solution of different issue which is faced by
organization due to gender pay gap (Polachek, 2019).
Aim-
The aim of this research is to determine the impact of gender pay gap in context of
equality and diversity in the workplace. A case study of: Nisa.
Objectives-
 To understand the concept of equality and diversity at workplace.
 To analyse the impact of gender pay gap in context of equality and diversity at
workplace.

 To identify the challenges faced by company while reducing gender pay gap.
 To recommend possible suggestions to reduce gender pay gap at work place within Nisa.
LO1

LO2
Research methodology
Research Type: Research is the systematic study which is conducted by the researcher
to find out the solution of issue which is being faced by organization in the market. (Kumar,
2019). In the field of research, researcher generally used to use two type of research i.e.
qualitative research type and Quantitative research type. Qualitative research relates to

observation of non-numerical data to present the outcome of research in non-numeric form.
Quantitative research at the other end looks at presenting the outcome in numeric form.
researcher has gone with the qualitative research to carry out the result of of this research,
reason behind the same was that it was creating variety of issue for researcher to present the
data in numeric form.
Research Philosophy: Research philosophy is phenomenon which used to dealt with the
source, nature and development of knowledge. In simple words it generally includes different
type of belief through which data can be gather. Positivism and interpretivism are philosophy out
of which one philosophy can be taken by researcher for this research. Positivism philosophy is
the philosophy in which knowledge is certainly based on natural phenomenon. Interpretivism
philosophy generally study the human interest also which is involves in the study. researcher has
used interpretivism philosophy to carry out the outcome of research as it has provided good
support to qualitative research type and also had helped the researcher in understanding human
interest as well.
Research Approach: Research approach is different type of assumption which is made
by the researcher in the process of data collection, data analysis and interpretation (Bresler and
Stake, 2017). researcher was having the choice of choosing any one out of inductive and
deductive approach. Deductive approach tests the already pronounced theory where as inductive
approach looks at generating the new theory on the basis of current study. To achieve the Aim
of the research researcher has taken inductive research approach in consideration, as this
research is the one who suits well for qualitative research type.
Data Collection: Data collection is the process in which researcher try to gather
different sort of information to carry out the outcome of the research. Primary and secondary
areare two data collection tool which can be used by the scholar to have a good quantity of data
to conduct study. Primary data collection is the tool in which organization used to collect the
data for very first time from the occurrence. Secondary data is data collection source in which
data is collected from the source who has already collected information from primary source.
Researcher has used both the tool to collect the data. In which primary data was collected with
help of survey where as secondary was copllected by going through variety of different journal
and article related to the topic.

Sampling: Sampling is a process in which researcher try to figure out number of
respondent which will be targeted by survey to gather required information (Ledford and Gast,
2018). Probabilistic and non-probabilistic are two type of sampling method which is used by
researcher to decide the sample size. Probabilistic sampling method is the method, which looks
at providing every respondent a chance to get selected in sample size. Researcher has selected
same sampling size in the organization. Selected sample size for the research is 20 employees of
Nisa.
Data Analysis: Data analysis is the process of presenting the outcome of research in such
a way that it helps viewer in understanding the result in better ways (Silverman,, 2016).
researcher has chosen thematic data analysis tool to interpret different data. researcher has
presented the data in different graph and table, so that it gets easier for the viewer in interpreting
the data in better ways.
LO 3
Data analysis
Theme 1: “familiarity with the concept of Gender pay gap”
Particular Number of respondents percentage of respondent
Yes 19 95
No 1 5
Total 20 100