Research Project: Impact of Cultural Diversity on Tesla's Workplace

This research project investigates the impact of managing cultural diversity and diversity training on racial discrimination within Tesla, a highly diverse organization. The report begins with an introduction outlining the aim, objectives, research question, and rationale for the study, emphasizing the significance of diversity training in improving employee performance and reducing workplace conflicts. A literature review explores existing research on diversity training methods and their effectiveness in managing cultural diversity. The methodology section details the research design, including the exploratory design, inductive approach, and interpretivism philosophy, along with sampling techniques and data collection methods using both primary and secondary data sources. The research employs thematic analysis to analyze the collected data. Ethical considerations and the use of qualitative research are also addressed. The report also includes a research approval and ethics form, outlining the research objectives, methodologies, participant involvement, and ethical considerations. The findings of this research will provide insights into the benefits of cultural diversity training and recommend practices for organizations to improve cultural diversity and reduce race discrimination.

RESEARCH PROJECT
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Table of Contents
TITLE-.............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aim and Objective..................................................................................................................3
Research Question..................................................................................................................3
Significance............................................................................................................................3
Rationale.................................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................4
Managing Cultural Diversity through Diversity Training......................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................5
Research Design.....................................................................................................................6
Research Approach.................................................................................................................6
Research Philosophy..............................................................................................................6
Sampling.................................................................................................................................6
Data Collection ......................................................................................................................6
Data Analysis..........................................................................................................................6
Ethical Considerations............................................................................................................6
Research Type .......................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

TITLE-
“Impact of managing cultural diversity effecting racial discrimination in the work place.”
A case study of Tesla
INTRODUCTION
Aim and Objective
Aim-
Impact of managing cultural diversity effecting racial discrimination in the work place to
reduce 50% of conflicts within the workplace.- A case study on Tesla.
Objectives-
1. To develop different effective methods of diversity training to reduce the race
discrimination in organization.
2. To evaluate the impact of Diversity training on performance of organization in high
diverse organization to prevent race discrimination between employees.
3. To explore the Benefits of cultural diversity training to avoid race discrimination to
maintain cultural Diversity in organization.
4. To recommend various practices for the organization to improve cultural diversity.
Research Question
 What is the impact of Diversity training on performance of organization in high diverse
organization to prevent race discrimination between employees?
 What are effective methods of diversity training to reduce the race discrimination in
organization?
 What are Benefits of cultural diversity training to avoid race discrimination to maintain
cultural Diversity in organization?
Rationale
For the large size and highly diverse organization it is important to train their new
employees to make them comfortable within work place to motivate and encourage them to
perform efficiently (Fujimoto and Härtel, 2017). This topic is selected for research cause it can
help the organization to gain high performance in target market using skills of new hired
employees. I have chosen this topic because this will help me in my professional career as well
as assist me to understand cultural diversity in deep. Besides this, another reason for choosing
this topic is that I have personal interest in it.

LITERATURE REVIEW
Managing Cultural Diversity through Diversity Training
As per Gilbert (2017), This is important for a business organization to provide better
training to new employees in order to make them aware of work culture of organization. Race
discrimination is one of the most typical issue for organization. As illustrated by Otaye-Ebede
(2019), It is important for the organization to reduce address issues regarding race discrimination
in order to prevent conflicts between employees. According to Rowlands and Iles (2017), This is
also important for them train employees for different processes that are used by the organization
to maintain performance of organization with high diversity. According to Noon, (2018) this is
very important for company to provide training of diverse culture ton the employees to help them
to get adjusted in work place of company. According to Shemla and Wegge (2019), There are
different processes of training are used by organization to make people aware company culture.
This is also a beneficiary process for organization.
As per view of Jyoti and Kour (2017), Diversity training is basically the training program
which is being carried out by organization to make the employees aware about diversity issues at
workplace like belies, perception of people. According to Scott and Wildman (2017), Initially,
diversity training was not much popular among organizations but since the emergence of people
from varying culture in organization, issues relating to culture, conflicts of interest, contrasting
views has arisen and this has shifted the focus of organizations from normal training to diversity
training. According to Goold and Campbell (2019), This research will enlighten the diversity
training given by Tesla to its recruit and the extent to which it is effective. The main aim of
choosing this organization is that it is a diversified organization which has large number of
employees of different culture, background, state, country thus studying this organization will
help to better understand importance of diversity training.
Timescale

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Saunder's research onion
Saunder's research onion mainly illustrates the various stages which are involved within
development of the research work. In short, this model mainly gives the detailed description of
numerous stages within research process. The main stages within Saunders onion stage are
research philosophy, research approach, research strategies, research choice and research time
zone.
Research Design
In this research process exploratory design will be used to because it will help to develop
information on particular topic that is selected in report. This approach is selected because it can
help to analyse collected data effectively.
Research Approach
For this research process inductive approach will be used. This research approach will
help the researcher to evaluate data based on primary research. This research approach is
selected to develop new theories based on collected data.
Research Philosophy
The research philosophy that is used in this research is interpretivism which is effective
to explain the data that is collected in the research process. This approach is used to effectively
evaluate data collected form primary sources.

Sampling
In this research project simple random sampling is used. As sample there are 30
employees of Tesla’s will be included in research process for data collection. Simple random
sampling is used in this research to avoid biased data.
Data Collection
For this research both primary and secondary data collection will be used and these
approaches will help researcher to collect precise and accurate data related to the topic. Primary
data will help to find the benefits of training process and secondary data collection will help to
find various process to provide training to employees.
Data Analysis
The major data analysis method which has been used in this research is thematic analysis.
The main of choosing this analysis method is that breaking down the research into themes helps
to draw conclusion easier.
Ethical Considerations
While carrying out the research, participants were not forced or pressurized for providing
their feedback and response. Besides this, the privacy of each and every participant were highly
ensured.
Research Type
For conducting this research, qualitative research type has been used. The major objective
of selecting qualitative research is to provide the complete description of research topic.
Qualitative data is collected in research to develop information about cultural diversity of
organization.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Fujimoto, Y. and Härtel, C.E., 2017. Organizational diversity learning framework: going beyond
diversity training programs. Personnel Review.
Gilbert, J.A., 2017. Managing Surface-Level Diversity as a Business Imperative. In Oxford
Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management.
Goold, M. and Campbell, A., 2019. Managing Diversity: Strategy and. Management Control
Theory.p.161.
Jyoti, J. and Kour, S., 2017. Factors affecting cultural intelligence and its impact on job
performance. Personnel Review.
Noon, M., 2018. Pointless diversity training: Unconscious bias, new racism and agency. Work,
employment and society. 32(1). pp.198-209.
Otaye-Ebede, L., 2019. Antecedents and outcomes of managing diversity in a UK context: test of
a mediation model. The International Journal of Human Resource Management.30(18).
pp.2605-2627.
Rowlands, K.E. and Iles, P., 2017. MANAGING IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT. Strategic Human
Resource Management: An International Perspective.466.
Scott, C.P. and Wildman, J.L., 2017. Developing and managing teams. The Wiley Blackwell
Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes.pp.503-
529.
Shemla, M. and Wegge, J., 2019. Managing diverse teams by enhancing team identification: The
mediating role of perceived diversity. Human Relations.72(4), pp.755-777.

Research Approval & Ethics Form
*Students must ensure that this form is attached with their final submission. Failure to do
this will result in your assignment been refused for grading.
Section 1: Basic Details
Project title: Research Project
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
School:
Intended research start date: Intended research end date:
Section 1: Proposal
You must complete all parts of Section 1 & 2 and present to your lecturer for a brief discussion
and approval of your topic before embarking on writing a full proposal.
One: Objectives
Research project objectives (e.g. what is the question you want to answer? What do you
want to learn how to do? What do you want to find out?):
1. To develop different effective methods of diversity training to reduce the race
discrimination in organization.
2. To evaluate the impact of Diversity training on performance of organization in high
diverse organization to prevent race discrimination between employees.
3. To explore the Benefits of cultural diversity training to avoid race discrimination to
maintain cultural Diversity in organization.
4. To recommend various practices for the organization to improve cultural diversity.
Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
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Reasons for choosing the project (e.g. links to other subjects you are studying,
personal interest, future plans, why the topic is important):
1. This topic is selected because managing cultural diversity is most important for global
organization.
2. Knowledge of managing cultural diversity will be effective for professional career.
Three: Research approach and methodologies
What type of research approach and methodologies are you
likely to use and why?
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as part of
your project:
 Interviews:
 Questionnaires: Yes
 Observations:
 Use of Personal Records:
 Data Analysis: Yes
 Action Research:
 Focus Groups:
 Other (please specify):
In this research work questionnaire will be used to collect primary data from randomly
selected respondents. The data analysis process is used to develop knowledge and theories to
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address particular research topic.
I confirm that the project is not work which has been or will be submitted for another
qualification.
Student signature: ....................................................................................................................................................................... date) ......................................................
Section 2: Participants
Please answer the following questions, giving full details where necessary. Will your
research involve human participants?
Who are the participants? Tick all that apply:
-Participants are employees of Tesla
How will participants be involved (identified and approached)?
The participants are provided with questionnaire to provide their opinion in form of qualitative
data.
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what you are doing:
Ethical form will be provided to the participants along with questionnaire to make them
aware of research work.
How will you obtain consent from participants? Will this be written? How will it be
made clear to participants that they may withdraw consent to participate at any
time?
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1. By providing participation form to participant and maintaining high transparency in
research process,
Studies involving questionnaires: Will participants be given the option of omitting
questions they do not wish to answer?
Yes
If No, please explain why below and ensure that you cover any ethical issues arising from
this’
Studies involving observation: Confirm whether participants will be asked for their
informed consent to be observed.
No
Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e. give them a brief
explanation of the study)?
Yes
Will participants be given information about the findings of your study? (This could be
a brief summary of your findings in general)
Yes. Participant will be provided with information related to research project.
Section 3: Approval (To be completed by the lecturer)
Checklist Yes No
1. Is the proposed research title related to the theme?
2. Is the research scope realistic? (i.e. not too broad)
3. Is the research feasible? (i.e. could be done)
4. Is there a research question or hypothesis?
5. Is there a rationale or clear reason for choosing the research
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title?
6. Has the student considered how the data will be collected?
7. Has the student considered where the data will be collected?
8. Will the ?
Comment (If any)
Agreement from project proposal checker (if applicable)
I confirm the learner has met and discuss their topic with me and is appropriate to the theme
provided.
Name & signature:
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