Analysis of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at the BBC

This report analyzes the issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion within the BBC, specifically addressing the gender pay gap. The report highlights the challenges faced by the organization, including instances of unequal pay between male and female employees, and a culture of discrimination. It examines the company's responses to these issues, such as apologies, commitments to equal pay, and legal considerations. The analysis covers the impact of these issues on the company and the strategies employed to overcome the challenges. The report concludes that equality and diversity are crucial for organizational success and that the BBC has faced leadership and management challenges in effectively addressing these issues. The report references several sources to support its findings, providing a comprehensive overview of the situation and the efforts to improve equality and diversity within the BBC.

Equality, diversity and
inclusion in society
and organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Equality is explained as the quality or state of being equal with each and every person. It
is necessary because it allows people to work freely working within the organisation. In context
of the company, if they want to accomplish the targets then they are required to ensure that each
and every employees are being treated equally. The chosen organisation in this respective file is
BBC which is one of multinational company. The main discrimination which is mostly found in
this company is gender pay gap.
MAIN BODY
The issues which is being faced within organisation like BBC is Gender pay gap where
female employees are not being paid equal amount of salary as compare to male employees. It is
one of the problem which is being faced since longer period of time. In one of the past case, 170
female employees demanded that company should apologies for salary differences and culture of
differences (BBC gender pay gap: 170 female employees demand apology over salary differences
and 'culture of discrimination', 2018.). Also, it was found that the male employee who have
joined recently but working on the same post have higher amount of salary as compared to male
employees. It is one of the problem which has been reducing the value of female employees
within the company.
As, it was one of the problem which has been creating serious problem for the company
but still they were unable to solve it out. They had different reasons for resolving the issues such
as in first instance company deal with some of the individual female employees where they
convenience them that they will increase their salary. It was the problem which was found in each
and every position in the company which has been creating more problems. As it has become one
of the national issues so in order to overcome the problem company have decided to do
commitment that in future each and every employees will be paid equally. In order to overcome
the problem, they have given the statement that company doesn't comply with equality act as they
just want to promote female employees by giving them the opportunity to achieve different
milestones. In some of the cases, even BBC paid female employees back pay amount to sort out
the issues which they were facing within the company (Klarsfeld and et. al., 2016). Even in
current situation, they have been suffering from this problem because they have the concept that
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male employees can be connected with the company for longer period of time but female
employees required number of leaves in different situations.
It was one of the problem which was faced by BBC where they could have taken different
steps to solve it out as they have the policies that there will not be equality for distributing the
salary (Coe, Wiley and Bekker, 2019). So, in this case company should have decided that they
will address and clear out each and every staff that their will be inequality in salary of employees
and that can be in case of both male and female employees. While in second situation company
also have the option that they can take the help of regulation to solve out the problem. In law
gender pay gap has been not discussed in detail due to which company have the option to take
decisions of own.
In order to resolve the problem, they could have given the condition to female employees
to attain some of the targets through which company can also be benefited and even their pay
scale also increase at a greater speed (The BBC has a gender pay gap problem. Here's how to fix
it, 2018). The situation was out of control where question were raised on the company but
company had the option to prove that they work on the policy where pay scale will not be same
as even they are also involved in the work of freelancing in which pay scale is much higher then
normal pay scale. By looking at the decision which were taken by the company, it can be easily
said that they were unable to tackle the problem in effective manner due to which they have to
suffer from different issues and problem. They could have used different strategies to overcome
from the problem such as they had the option to do discussion with different department that how
they overcome the gender pay gap issues without decreasing the value of a company.
While talking about the current situation of the company they have mostly overcome from
the problem which they are facing by increasing the pay scale of female employees where it was
necessary. In some of the situations they have given the justification where were valid an
according to that inequality in pay scale was valid and by looking at all of this things it can be
understood that in some of the cases company have recovered (Bendl and et. al., 2015). But, they
had they option to give more justification to their statements so that problem could have been
sorted out easily. While talking about the crisis or issues, it is one of the leadership and
management problem because they are the one who have the responsibility to take each and every
decision and here they were unable to deal with the situation which were raised in front of them.
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CONCLUSION
From the above file it can be concluded that equality and diversity plays the crucial role in
each of the business organisation. As per the terms and condition of laws and regulation, it is not
allowed to any of the company to discriminate their employees. If any of the business
organisation wants to attain the target of a company then they are required to be equal with each
and every employees whether they are male or female. There are number of situation where
company have to face different issues but in order to resolve them, they are required to use
different strategies so that situation doesn't get worst as compared to previous one.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Bendl, R. and et. al., 2015. The Oxford handbook of diversity in organizations. Oxford University
Press.
Coe, I. R., Wiley, R. and Bekker, L. G., 2019. Organisational best practices towards gender
equality in science and medicine. The Lancet, 393(10171), pp.587-593.
Klarsfeld, A. and et. al., 2016. Understanding religious diversity: implications from Lebanon and
France. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management.
Online
BBC gender pay gap: 170 female employees demand apology over salary differences and 'culture
of discrimination'. 2018. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-gender-pay-gap-employees-
apology-bbc-women-nuj-tony-hall-select-committee-a8184306.html>
The BBC has a gender pay gap problem. Here's how to fix it. 2018. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-gender-pay-gap-salaries-diversity-report>
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