Project Report: Strategies for Equality and Diversity at Reebok

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Reebok's approach to managing equality and diversity within its organization, framed as a project management exercise. It begins with an introduction to the concepts of equality and diversity, highlighting their importance in fostering innovation and attracting talent. The report outlines a project management plan, detailing costs, scope, timeframes, quality considerations, communication strategies, and risk assessments. It utilizes a Gantt chart and work breakdown structure to visualize project tasks. The research methodology includes both quantitative and qualitative approaches, with a focus on a questionnaire-based data collection method. The report includes the questionnaire used and presents the findings through data tables and thematic analysis. Ethical considerations, such as confidentiality and informed consent, are also addressed. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and offers recommendations for enhancing Reebok's diversity and inclusion strategies. The report examines the benefits of equality and diversity in the workplace, the strategies Reebok employs, and the impact of diversity on the company's performance and productivity. This project explores the methods used to gather and analyze data, providing a complete overview of the subject.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
P1............................................................................................................................................................3
P2............................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................................9
P4............................................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3........................................................................................................................................................12
P5..........................................................................................................................................................12
P6..........................................................................................................................................................22
TASK 4........................................................................................................................................................23
P7..........................................................................................................................................................23
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................23
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................24
APPENDIX 1...............................................................................................................................................26

THEME: Equality and Diversity
INTRODUCTION
Equality is all about assuring everyone has the equal opportunity to be treated equally due to
their characteristics. Diversity is concerned with the differences between people and groups.
Managing the diversity at workplace is helpful in enhancing innovation and also opens up new
talent (Ashe and Nazroo, 2017). Reebok is American footwear and apparel organisation
established in Bolton since 1958. In mention project will mentioned regarding the project
management plan by considered different aspects such as cost, quality, time, communication and
others. For collection of information and data, different methods of research will be discussed.
TASK 1
P1
Background
Equality includes people's equal treatment, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, colour, age,
and so on. At work, equality is connected to maintaining equality and acknowledged differences
between individuals in establishing a healthy working environment. The primary goal is to
ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to succeed, and also to avoid discrimination against
individuals. Diversity refers to an understanding of the variations between people and ensures
that each trait differs (Barak, 2016). Reebok is dedicated towards creating and maintaining an
integrated and supportive organization’s community, in order to attract and support a diverse
team. The sneaker was released with a view to promoting social justice and cohesion. In addition
to this, diversity provides insight into how diverse staff at Reebok experience across diverse
ethnic dimensions is felt and evaluated.
Aim
“To determine initiatives and strategies used through firm for developing the diverse and
inclusive workforce.” A study on Reebok.
Objectives

• To examine the concept of equality and diversity at workplace.
• To determine various strategies used through Reebok for developing the diverse and
inclusive workforce.
• To analyze the advantages Reebok can get by making diverse and inclusive
workplace environment.
Questions
• What is equality and diversity at workplace?
• What are the various strategies implemented through Reebok for developing the
diverse and inclusive workforce.
• What are advantages Reebok can get by making diverse and inclusive workplace
environment?
P2
Project management plan is referred to as the written document that includes several
actions which are taken by individual/ researcher with the motive of executing whole
investigation in rightful manner. Project management plan is basically consist of 6 several
elements which are specified as below:
Cost: This is basically considered as the overall amount that is used through a researcher
in order to carry out effective investigation. For conducting effective research, investigator is
now required to focus developing budget that would examine overall cost of the whole
investigation. In regards to this research, an investigator would require approximately 100
pounds for executing overall work related to the investigation. The developed budget plan for the
same investigation is specified as below:
Task to perform Expenditure (Pound)
Library Cost 10
Equipment cost 15
Stationary 10
Transportation 15

Miscellaneous expenses 20
Resources 30
Total 100
Scope: This investigation has the wider scope towards whole investigation as it clearly
provides them support in developing effective strategies which would contribute in the effective
execution of equality and diversity. Also, inclusion of this investigation work as the part of
organisational work would definitely create numerous of opportunities for the businesses. Also,
with the perspective of the researcher, the current investigation would definitely help them out in
enhancing their knowledge and also contribute in conducting more effective research in the near
future.
Time: To conduct this research, investigator would be requiring adequate amount of time
so that they can easily accomplishing predefined goals and objectives in quicker manner. For
conducting this investigation, the researcher would definitely require around 10 months with the
motive of acquiring required research aim in rightful manner.
Quality: While conducting this investigation the major concern of the investigator is to
conduct investigation in such a manner so that they do not faces any kind of issues related to the
quality. All atmosphere circumstances must be defined, information needed collected and quality
of all information gathered produced by each researcher. It ends up helping businesses with a
strong brand image among their customers. In connection with the present inquiry, the
investigator maintains the quality of the information collected which maintains the investigator 's
confidence in them.
Communication: It is acknowledged as the important factor in every project as it helps
them allot in transferring information to the proposed person in rightful manner. With reference
to the current investigation, the respective investigator of this project emphasizes on having clear
cut communication with its team members that includes meeting, telephonic interaction and face-
to-face, emails and conferences in order to convey right information to the person.

Risk: Alike every business activity investigation too has some of the common risks such
as leak of confidential data of the participants. Along with this, another risk associated with this
research is its completion within the predefined time limit.
Resources: It is necessary to have enough resources to complete overall research properly.
The researchers' main important resources for the successful completion of entire research
include adequate funding, human resources and so forth. T o conduct research in ethical and
systemic way, the researchers necessitate various sources.
P3
Gantt chart- It explains as a valuable project management method that shows mostly
time-specific tasks. It is visual description of the project, in which the activities are separated and
displayed on chart for easier comprehension and interpretation. The diagram from Gantt is useful
in both preparing and executing large projects to simplify complex tasks on time. It against
context, time limits is transcribed into horizontal bar charts, end dates, specifications and the
deadlines for project management (Brown, J., 2017). By using the Gantt, managers keep
informed about certain additional resources and manage task dependencies

Work breakdown structure- The layout of job breakdown is primarily built by project
team through the determination of the key functional supply in sub-deliverables as well as small
systems. For handling large projects in manageable sections, businesses use the working
breakdown method. It is beneficial to reduce all the complex tasks to effectively collect all
activities, to ensure that the work can be performed together by various team members to achieve
high efficiency within the team (Cletus and et. al., 2018). Therefore, the project manager has a
responsibility to split the tasks into parts so that team members are not likely to face any
challenge in completing project.

Figure 1: Work breakdown structure

TASK 2
P4
It is important that an investigator carry out research better and helps to obtain accurate
results. This is necessary for researchers to choose right tools and methods to help achieve the
goals. The transformation of whole work into the analytical study will be beneficial and research
will be much easier. In context to this, researchers need to choose the best way of collecting data
and collecting data from their selected respondents by an investigator. The information and data
should be interconnected with the research subject (Davis, Frolova and Callahan, 2016).
Different research methods and tools for data collection are given below:
Quantitative method- The statistics are thus generated using the large-scale research. The
investigation process is based on the theory that is analyzed by statistical techniques to evaluate
issue.
Qualitative method- Research collects non-numerical data in this research method. This
relates to the collection, analysis and interpretation of data by observing people thoughts.
Qualitative methods are subjective in nature and use specific data collection methods
(Georgiadou, Gonzalez-Perez and Olivas-Lujan,2019).
There has been quantitative research method used because it is related with the
objectivity and focus on providing reliable information.
Data collection is a method by which researchers collect information to address the
question of study.
Primary method- Under it, to solve specific issues, primary data is gathered through
investigator for particular reason. Different primary sources like questionnaire, observation,
interviews and others to collect the information (Gordon, 2018).
Secondary method- This is a form of desk research which uses existing data and
information. It summarizes and gathers current data to increase the performance of research.
Sources to gather the secondary information are internet sources, journals etc.

Data collection tool- Questionnaire method used to collect most specific information from
the participants. The key reason for using this method is that researcher can able to obtain
detailed information in a short time from respondents (Hatipoglu and Inelmen, 2018).
QUESTIONNAIRE
Q1) Are you aware regarding equality and diversity in context to organization?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) What are various characteristics of the equality and diversity?
a) Age
b) Gender
c) Religion
Q3) What are the advantages of developing equality in an organization?
a) Greater productivity
b) Increase employee performance
c) Brand reputation
Q4) What advantages company can get from the diverse workplace?
a) Opens up the new talent
b) Innovation
c) Wider range of skills
Q5) In which way diversity affect on the Reebok performance as well as productivity?
a) Positive impact
b) Negative impact
Q6) What are various strategies used through Reebok for creating an inclusive and diverse
workforce?
a) Create performance objectives
b) Convert job descriptions to gender-neutral language
c) Educate Leaders.
Q7) What are various methods Reebok used to promoting the equality?
a) Treating staff fairly
b) Developing inclusive culture for staff

c) Ensuring equal access to opportunities
Q8) What are the benefits Reebok organization can get from managing the diverse working
environment?
a) Workforce make better decisions faster
b) Reduce employee turnover
c) Enhanced profit
Q9) Does maintaining workplace diversity assists in increasing the staff performance and
sustaining them?
a) Yes
b) No
Q10) Does maintaining the diversified working culture helps Reebok for achieving the
competitive benefits?
a) Yes
b) No
Q11) Suggest some ways to sustain different culture and background employees for
enhancing organizational reputation and competitive edge.
Sampling- This is related to selected the sample size for measurement from large
populations. Representatives of population will guarantee that the findings are generalized.
Through using the random sampling method, 30 respondents were selected as this methods helps
in provide the equal opportunities to the chosen respondents (Klarsfeld and et. al., 2016).
Ethical consideration- researcher should follow the research ethical standards in order to
keep them away from all kinds of legal challenges which may occur in future. The investigator
observes every ethical principle with respect to the present work such as confidentiality,
authenticity, informed consent, anonymity and others. Each respondent must simply obtain
permission before using the data given. The information collected is also used only for purpose
of research. Furthermore, the consent of all respondents was obtained before information on the
research subject was received (Klein, 2016).

TASK 3
P5
For analyze the collected information from the primary sources, there has been thematic
analysis method used. This included make themes, preparation of MS- excel to develop the
graphs and also make the interpretation of collected information.
DATA SHEET
Q1) Are you aware regarding equality and diversity in context to
organization?
Frequency
a) Yes 25
b) No 5
Q2) What are various characteristics of the equality and diversity? Frequency
a) Age 10
b) Gender 10
c) Religion 10
Q3) What are the benefits of developing equality in an
organization?
Frequency
a) Greater productivity 18
b) Increase employee performance 10
c) Brand reputation 2
Q4) What advantages company can get from the diverse workplace? Frequency
a) Opens up new talent 10
b) Innovation 12
c) Wider range of skills 8
Q5) In which way diversity affect on the Reebok performance as
well as productivity?
Frequency
a) Positive impact 18
b) Negative impact 12
Q6) What are various strategies used through Reebok for creating
an inclusive and diverse workforce?
Frequency
a) Create performance objectives 11