An Analysis of Equality and Diversity in the Airdri Group Project

This report examines equality and diversity practices within the Airdri Group, a UK-based technology company. The study explores the significance of the Equality Act 2010 in addressing gender pay gaps, assessing Airdri's policies, and evaluating the benefits of equality and diversity practices. It includes a project establishment plan detailing costs, scope, time, quality, communication, risk, and resources. A work breakdown structure and Gantt chart are presented for project management. The research employs primary and secondary data collection methods to achieve its aims, focusing on improving balance among subordinates and fostering an inclusive workplace environment. The report aims to offer recommendations to the company for promoting equality and diversity, ultimately contributing to a more equitable and diverse workforce.

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INTRODUCTION
In every company it is necessary to generate inclusive as well as diverse workforce which
assists in improvement of positive ambience at workplace. It is essential for manager of company
to bring equality and diversity within organisation that helps in accomplishing goal and objective
in pre-decided time period. The current assignment is depending upon company named as Airdri
group technology which is located in UK. It is depend upon various kinds of objective that are
connected to various practices prevailed within company and how company focuses on adopting
various practices that increases efforts or contribution of employees. Equality and Diversity is
directly connected to equality act 2010 that assists in increasing opportunities related to
employment and whole fairness for staff member in organisation. The current assignment is
depend upon improving balance among subordinates in order to bring equality & diversity within
organisation. It has been analysed that quantitative as well as qualitative kinds of data is useful in
understanding whole results of investigation and primary data is important for gathering reliable
source of data or information. In addition to this, there are various kinds of analysis tool that is
adopted for interpreting information and improvement of recommendation & conclusion that
must be as per gathered data by respondent which assists formulation of various tactics which is
connected to equality and diversity. It is also useful in resolving overall issues in order manage
different activities and function in an appropriate manner (Polonsky and Waller, 2018).
TASK 1
P1 Objectives/ aim of research
Overview of research
The current research is depending upon company named as Airdri which deal with
various kinds of equipment around various locations at UK. The current research is depending
upon improvement of various strategies which is used by organisation. Depend upon innovative
policy improvement and strategies for providing recommendation to company as per equality act
2010. In addition to this, there are several recommendations in order to resolves issues that are
connected to equality and diversity prevailed within company.
Aim of research

The aim of assignment is “To consider the role which is played by equality as well as
diversity practices in order to eliminate whole influence of gender pay gap within organisation”.
A case study is based on company named as Airdri.
Objective of research
The current search is depending upon several objectives which is going to be mentioned
below:
To know the significance of equality act 2010 in handling whole issues which is
connected to gender pay gap within company.
For assessing various policies that is adopted by Airdri for aim of handling equality and
diversity.
To know the advantages of execution of practices related to equality as well as diversity
in company.
To consider various strategies which is adopted by organisation in order to handle whole
influence of gender pay gap ( Buttrick, 2018).
Questions
 Explain the significance of equality act 2010 in understanding issues related to gender
pay gap?
 Explain different policies adopted for handling equality as well as diversity in
organisation?
 Explain advantages which is connected with equality and diversity practices in Airdri?
 Define various strategies adopted by company for administration of impact of gender pay
gap?
To know the significance of equality act 2010 in handling whole issues which is connected to
gender pay gap within company.
As per viewpoint of (Bititci, 2016) , it has been analysed that for every company it is
significant to determine various issues connected to equality as well as diversity like gender pay
gap is considered as a main issues which must be taken into account by higher authority.
Equality act 2010 signifies various kinds of regulations that must be executed by company in
order to avoid legal proceeding by government. It is useful in favourable contribution made by
subordinates in order to increase satisfaction in relation to equal practices.

For assessing various policies that is adopted by Airdri for aim of handling equality and
diversity.
As per viewpoint of (Bartlett, 2017), there are various policies which is used by
company to make sure that there is appropriate equality as well as diversity between staff
members. It is connected to policies adopted by subordinates in order to reduce conflicts as well
as grievances at workplace. There are different types of policies which is connected to better
recruitment is also adopted by organisation for increasing potential level of subordinates.
To know the advantages of execution of practices related to equality as well as diversity in
company.
As per viewpoint of (Nguyen, Mollik and Chih, 2018), the aim of equality as well as
diversity practices in every company helps in make sure that every subordinates has equal
opportunities and give fair treatment to its staff. It is connected with formation of various
concepts which is beneficial for organisation in order to hire capable employees. It is also useful
in provide cost efficient training to its subordinates for reducing turnover rate of staff member
and bring favourable positive ambience within company that assists in providing comfort to its
employees at workplace.
To consider various strategies which is adopted by organisation in order to handle whole
influence of gender pay gap
As per point of view of (Won and Lee, 2016) , there are various qualities which is formed
by business organisation in order to handle issues that is connected with gender pay gap. There
are various policies used by company that is connected to medical leaves that helps subordinates
in providing proper care of their family. It is necessary to bring positive culture within business
organisation (Kerzner, 2018).
P2 Project establishment plan for research
Project administration plan is considered as a plan that assists business organisation in
order to assess various level of project. It aid assistance in considering various controlling and
monitoring activities that is connected to project (Bryan, 2018). There are various elements that
are determined as a part of project administration plan and it signifies cost, resources,

communication, quality and many more. This plan is depend upon various value proposition of
overall project that must be assessed with project. These functions must be executed for ascertain
role as well as responsibilities which is assigned to various individual person that assists in
improving research finding. The project administration plan for current research which is going
to be mentioned below:
Cost: The cost consist value of organising overall research in an appropriate way. Thus,
it is important for researcher to build proper budget for assessing overall cost require to complete
research in an appropriate manner. In context of Airdri, the researcher emphasised on building
proper research is required to be organised that needed 50000 pounds to create positive
outcomes.
Task to execute Expenses
Issue related to examination 5000
Improvement of plans 6000
Research analysis 11000
Salary of investigator 14000
Other expenditure 9000
Implementation cost 5000
Total 50000
Scope: There are a broader scope of present research in connection of equality and
diversity. In addition to this, it has been analysed that types of research assists in offering
opportunities prevailing at marketplace for enhancing sales in upcoming time period.
Time: The investigator emphasised on time duration which is needed for completing
whole project in better way. In assistance of this, it is significant for investigator to analyse the
time duration for finishing whole project in timely manner. Hence, for completing present
research in a proper way they require 3 months to achieve positive outcomes. In reference of
Airdri, they emphasised on finishing project in short span of time ( Zwikael, Chih and Meredith,
2018).

Quality: The quality is determined as an important element which is ascertained by
researcher for organising research in an appropriate way. Hence, the researcher emphasised on
managing quality of information gathered by them for achieving positive outcomes. In addition
to this, it is important for researcher to analyse the whole external environment for collecting
required information in order to finish project in an appropriate way and also assists in
accomplishing positive results. In context of Airdri, they focus on managing quality of data
gathered for finishing project in short span of time.
Communication: Communication is significant for communicating information which is
required for organising appropriate research during the particular time period. By proper
communication, the researcher offer direction to its staff member for implementing work in an
appropriate way. In reference of Airdri, there are different kinds of sources used by researcher
for effective communication like e-mail as well as phone calls and many more.
Risk: It is important for business organisation to determine risk for organising proper
research in good way. In present research, it has been analysed that risk is connected to
confidentiality and secrecy of information. It is important for investigator to ensure
confidentiality connected to information for achieving favourable results for finishing research in
timely manner (Mayer, Louw and Boness, 2019).
Resources: There are a requirement of different kinds of resources for finishing research
in proper way. There are different resources required for completing research in proper way like
finance, land as well as human resource and many more. Hence, it is important to have sufficient
resources for finishing research in better way.
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
Work breakdown structure is considered as tools which assists researcher of specific
research in allocating overall project into smaller parts for managing in an appropriate way. It is
useful in considering various activities which must be executed in order to conduct research. The
whole sequence of different activities in managed in order to conduct research in better way. It is
useful in understanding various functions related to project so that there is no duplication of
activities and overall work of research as per specific sequence. It is useful in assessing different
activities for optimum utilisation of resources that helps in accomplishing goal as well as
objective in pre-decided period of time. In addition to this, it is vital for organisation to allocate
resources for finishing overall project in timely manner ( PMarcocchia and Maniak, 2018).

Gantt chart is considered as a technique which is given by Henry Gantt and this tool is
emphasised on overall time aspect for assigning work to researcher for finishing research and
achieving goal as well as objective in timely manner. As per Gantt chart, it aid assistance in
graphical representation through x axis and vertical axis. There is description of every activity as
per time and also mentioned beginning and ending date along with time duration. It is useful in
performing different activities and functions in order to complete project in specific deadline and
after finishing project in successful manner, it is necessary to start another activity. Project
manager aid assistance in considering status of every activity which is helpful in finishing project
as per given time period. It is depend upon various kinds of objective that are connected to
various practices prevailed within company and how company focuses on adopting various
practices that increases efforts or contribution of employees. Equality and Diversity is directly
connected to equality act 2010 that assists in increasing opportunities related to employment and
whole fairness for staff member in organisation (Schönherr and Martinuzzi, 2019).
TASK 2
P4 Small-scale research by application of primary and secondary methods to achieve the aims
and objectives of the project
Research can be defined as a relevant study for a particular topic to identify the issues
within the topic by using different sources so that a proper conclusion can be drawn. There are
different kinds of methods which are used to collect data for conducting a proper research. Some
of these are mentioned below:
Primary data: Primary data can be defined as a data which is collected by the researcher
and the first time. It can also be set as a raw data which is used first time within the research. It is
highly reliable because most of the time the researcher used to collect the data itself.
Secondary data: It can define that kind of data from the pre-existing there is no
involvement of the researcher and collecting the data at first time. It includes books, journals
various other source which are used by the researcher to conduct the research is an appropriate
manner. Current research supports both primary and secondary data are used by the researcher
to collect information.
Quantitative method

It can be defined as a method which is used by the researcher to express the data in
quantitative form. It includes the representation of data in numerical form so that the
information can be easily understood by using calculator with methods. Under this method a
series of question is used by the researcher where it tried to take and analyses the response in the
qualitative form. The present research reports, this method is also used by the researcher so that
it can increase the reliability and understandability research by using quantitative methods.
Qualitative method
Qualitative methods are those which are used by the researcher for identifying different
aspects of a research. Under qualitative data collection method, researcher use facts and quality
of the data so that effective conclusion can be drawn. This method includes group interviews
case studies as well as various qualitative types of information which can be used by the
researcher for conducting a research and getting the desired results.
In this current research report a questionnaire is used to collect the information from the
respondents. Under this research report the total sample size is 50 respondents. A proper
questionnaire which is used by the researcher is mentioned below:
Question 1) Do you favorable with the concept of equality and Diversity within the
organization?
1) Yes
2) No
Question 2) According to your point of view, do you think that the concept of equality and
Diversity is directly associated with the management of workforce within the organization?
A) Yes
B) No
Question 3) Do you think that adoption of policies related to equality and Diversity will
impact on the performance of employees?
A) Yes
B) No
Question 4) Do you think, using equality and Diversity concept within the organization will
arise issues in front of organization?
A) Yes
B) No

Question 5) According to your point of view, what are the impacts of diversity within the
organization on the day-to-day activities of individual?
A) Help in increasing productivity
B) Decrease productivity
C) Both
Question 6) According to you, what are the measures which can be used by the organisation
to manage the equality and Diversity for increasing the performance of individuals?
A) Increase motivation
B) Maintain supportive environment
C) Both of the above mentioned options
Question 7) According to you what are the major consequences which has to be faced by the
organization while implementing the concept of equality and diversity?
A) Dissatisfaction in staff
B) Increase in productivity
C) No major impact
TASK3
P5 Analysis of data by using tools and techniques
Question 1) Do you favorable with the concept of equality and Diversity within
the organization?
Frequenc
y
1) Yes 40
2) No 10

Interpretation: It can be interpreted from the above-mentioned information that 40
out of 50 respondents know about the concept of equality and Diversity within the
organisation. Only 10 out of 50 respondents responded negatively about the concept of
equality and diversity.
Question 2) According to your point of view, do you think that the concept of
equality and Diversity is directly associated with the management of workforce
within the organization?
Frequency
1) Yes 45
2) No 05

Interpretation: It can be evaluated from the above mentioned graph 45 out of 50
respondent responded in favour of the point that equality and Diversity is directly associated with
the management of workforce within the organisation. Only 5 out of 50 responded in negative
manner.
Question 3) Do you think that adoption of policies related to equality and
Diversity will impact on the performance of employees?
Frequency
1) Yes 35
2) No 15
Interpretation: It can be evaluated from the above mentioned graph that adoption of
policies related to equality and Diversity will impact on the performance of the organisation
because 35 out of 50 responded in favour of this point where only 15 out of 50 responded in
negative manner.
Question 4) Do you think, using equality and Diversity concept within the
organization will arise issues in front of organization?
Frequency
1) Yes 35
2) No 15