Research Proposal: Equality and Diversity in the Workplace at Unipart

This research proposal investigates the significance of leadership and management in promoting gender equality within Unipart Group Limited. It begins with an introduction to the research area, establishing the context of gender equality in the workplace. The research question explores how leadership and management are effective in fostering gender equality at Unipart, with sub-questions addressing the importance of gender equality, the ways leadership and management help promote it, and the challenges faced. The research aims to explore the role of leadership and management in promoting gender equality. The literature review examines the importance of gender equality, how leadership and management can promote it, and the challenges faced by Unipart Group Limited. The methodology section details the quantitative research approach, the use of questionnaires for data collection, and the deductive approach for data analysis. A timeline using a Gantt chart outlines the research activities. The proposal concludes with references to relevant sources. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of gender equality in the workplace.

Research Proposal
(Equality and Diversity in the Workplace)
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Contents
Introduction/ background to the research area.................................................................................3
Research Question.......................................................................................................................3
Sub-questions of research............................................................................................................3
Research aim and objectives........................................................................................................3
Reason and importance of research topic....................................................................................4
Literature review..............................................................................................................................5
What are the importance of gender equality in leadership and management of Unipart Group
Limited?.......................................................................................................................................5
How leadership and management help Unipart Group Limited in promoting of gendering
equality at workplace?.................................................................................................................5
What kind of challenges may be face by management and leadership of Unipart Group
Limited in promoting gender equality at workplace?..................................................................5
Methodology....................................................................................................................................6
Research Approach......................................................................................................................6
Research Techniques...................................................................................................................6
Sources or methods of data collection.........................................................................................6
Approaches of data analysis........................................................................................................6
Timeline of research activities.........................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction/ background to the research area
Gender equality is the equal management and access of female and male employees to
opportunities and business resources. It includes giving equal possibilities of pay raises,
promotions and inclusion within decision-making processes (Mo and Shi, 2017). Along with
this, leadership introduces to the process of influencing and attracting an organised group
towards attaining a goal, while management is more about managing and making sure the daily
basis activities are happening as they should. Leadership and management at workplace play an
important role in promoting gender quality within an organisation. Unipart Group Limited is a
chosen multinational supply chain, logistic, consultancy and manufacturing organisation. It was
founded in 1974 by John Neill, John Egan and headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom. Main
purpose of preparing this research is to analysis significance of leadership and management in
promoting of gender equality in the workplace.
Research Question
 How leadership and management are effective in promoting of gender equality at
workplace of Unipart Group Limited?
Sub-questions of research
o What are the importance of gender equality in leadership and management of Unipart
Group Limited?
o How leadership and management help Unipart Group Limited in promoting of gendering
equality at workplace?
o What kind of challenges may be face by management and leadership of Unipart Group
Limited in promoting gender equality at workplace?
Research aim and objectives
Research Aim:
Main aim of this research is “To explore the role of leadership and management in
promoting gender equality in the workplace of an organisation. A study on Unipart Group
Limited.
Research Objectives:
 To identify the importance of gender equality in leadership and management of Unipart
Group Limited.
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 To determine ways that may be use by leadership and management for promoting gender
equality at workplace of Unipart Group Limited.
 To ascertain challenges that may be face by management and leadership of Unipart
Group Limited in promoting gender equality at workplace.
Reason and importance of research topic
Main reason for selecting this topic as it helps in increasing understanding of organisations,
societies and an individual about the significance of gender equality and role of management and
leadership in promoting of gender equality. This research is important at practical and an
academic level. In academic level, this will support students by increasing their learning about
the gender equality and different ways that support leadership and management in developing
such aspects at workplace. Practically, if this research is publish that will be beneficial for
overall society and communities by increasing their understanding about the gender equality in
management and leadership (Krivkovich and et. al., 2017).
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Literature review
What are the importance of gender equality in leadership and management of Unipart Group
Limited?
According to the Sharon Hurley Hall (2020), gender equality is important within
management and leadership of an organisation. As this will support them in improving
productivity, increasing growth and innovation, diversity of views, more flexible working, more
stable workforce, happier employees, improving customer targeting, better quality of life,
improving company reputation and many more. All these are main importance of gender equality
that supports leadership and management to work towards accomplishment of business goal of
Unipart Group Limited easily.
How leadership and management help Unipart Group Limited in promoting of gendering
equality at workplace?
As per the view presented by Rongala (2019), promoting of gender equality is important
for leadership and management of company. There are different ways through which
management and leadership of Unipart Group Limited can easily promote gender equality in the
workplace. These ways are altering hiring practices to increase diversity, considering leadership
and management roles for both female and male employees, providing equal pay, prioritizing
work life balance, creating an open minded atmospheres etc. All these are more effective and
essential ways for promoting gender equality in the workplace place of Unipart Group Limited.
What kind of challenges may be face by management and leadership of Unipart Group Limited
in promoting gender equality at workplace?
According to the, Flynn (2016), there are certain challenges or issues that may be face by
leadership and management of company while promoting gender equality in the workplace.
These challenges are lack of employee’s engagement, high employee turnover, reduced
productivity and performance, time management issue, improper leadership etc. These are
biggest challenges are issues that have negative impact on business performance as well as
management and leadership of Unipart Group Limited.
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Methodology
Research Approach
Qualitative, quantitative of mixed are considering main approaches of research. For
conducting current study, quantitative approach is used because it facilitates in gathering of data
in numerical and reliable manner within lesser time (Amjad and et. al., 2018).
Research Techniques
Case studies, questionnaire, modelling, focus group etc. are main techniques of data
collection but according to the existing topic, questionnaire will be make use of because it
provide quantitative and valid information in minimum time period (Aoyama, Hoshika and
Honda, 2018).
Sources or methods of data collection
Primary and secondary are two sources or methods of data collection. In primary method,
questionnaire is an effective source that will be used for collecting quantitative and valid
information about the study. For gathering secondary data about the current topic, books,
articles, journals etc. sources will be followed for literature review (Gaur and Kumar, 2018).
Approaches of data analysis
Inductive and deductive are two approaches for analysing qualitative and quantitative data.
This study is based on quantitative data and for analysing such type of information deductive
approach will be applied. Main reason for selecting this approach as it helps researcher in
analisation of quantitative information in minimum time as well as lack of resources (Gjesfjeld
and et. al., 2020).
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Timeline of research activities
Gantt chart is an effective and useful tool of time management that will be used by
researcher for identifying timeline of each activity apart from their starting and ending data
(Güven, 2018). Gantt chart for this research proposal will be shown as below:
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REFERENCES
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Gjesfjeld, E. And et. al., 2020. A quantitative workflow for modeling diversification in material
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Güven, B., 2018. The Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Organizational Citizenship
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Krivkovich, A. and et. al., 2017. Women in the workplace 2017. LearnIn. org.
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Sharon Hurley Hall., 2020. Benefits of gender equality in the workplace. [Online]. Available
through:< https://business.tutsplus.com/articles/gender-equality-international-womens-
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Rongala. A., 2019. Ways to promote gender equality in the workplace. [Online]. Available
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Flynn and et. al., 2016. Overcoming challenges to gender equality in the workplace: leadership
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