Project: Analyzing Workplace Discrimination Issues at Sainsbury

This project investigates workplace discrimination within Sainsbury, aiming to identify the issues faced by the organization. The introduction provides background information, outlines the aim and objectives, and poses research questions. A comprehensive literature review examines the concept of workplace discrimination, various contributing factors like age and religious discrimination, and their impact on employee performance and organizational outcomes. The research methodology outlines the qualitative research approach, interpretive research philosophy, and deductive approach, along with data collection methods, including surveys and secondary data analysis. The data analysis section presents findings from the questionnaire, revealing insights into employees' understanding of discrimination, the factors driving it, and its perceived impact on the workplace. Key findings highlight that gender and religious discrimination are significant factors. The project concludes with recommendations to minimize the negative impacts of discrimination and improve workplace equality. The project also includes a reflection, research limitations, and a list of references.

PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background.............................................................................................................................1
Aim and objective...................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW ...............................................................................................................2
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................3
DATA ANALYSIS .........................................................................................................................4
KEY FINDING..............................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.............................................................................12
RESEARCH LIMITATION..........................................................................................................12
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Background
Equality among the employee is one of the best way through which organization can
maintain a good sort of human resources but at the same time it is not that easy task to be
perform in the organization. Workplace discrimination used to play a very crucial role in doing
the same in the organization. As Workplace discrimination impacts the performance of all the
organization very badly. This report has highlighted Aim and objective about different issue
faced by organization. After that report highlights the Author point of view on different
objective for the organization. After that the report highlights the Research methodology, Gantt
chart and possible outcome of the research.
Aim and objective
Aim: “To ascertain different type of issue faced by organization due to workplace discrimination
at workplace - A study based on Sainsbury”
Objective
 To understand the concept of workplace discrimination
 To examine different factor that leads to workplace discrimination at Sainsbury
 To analysis impact of workplace discrimination on employee and organization performance
 To ascertain negative impact brought by workplace discrimination
 To recommend best way through which impact of workplace discrimination can be minimized.
Research Question
 What does workplace discrimination means?
 What are different factor that leads to workplace discrimination at Sainsbury?
 What are impacts of workplace discrimination on employee and organization performance?
 Explain different negative impact brought by workplace discrimination?
 What is the best way through which impact of workplace discrimination can be minimized?
LITERATURE REVIEW
Theme 1- Concept of workplace discrimination
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According to Combs and Milosevic, (2016) Discrimination in work area is based on
certain preconceptions and happen when workers or teams are treated unfavorably because of
race, maternity, sexuality, religion, gender and disability. It can be distinguished into two types,
direct and indirect. When manager or leader treat individual differently because they possess
another characteristics to other members of team, leader will be acting unlawfully. Arneson,
(2017) stated that direct discrimination befall when one person in company is treated less
favorably more than other workers. For example, staff has qualifications to do job role but they
turn them down because leader or manager think they might want to married soon. On the other
hand, indirect discrimination happens when certain regulations and policies put on few members
at a disadvantage. For example, when leader insist all employees must works Sunday, this will
be seen as discrimination against Christian’s workers who consider Sunday as a day of worship.
Theme 2- Various factors that leads to workplace discrimination at company
Discussed by Hellman, (2017)workplace discrimination refer to proposing to treat,
someone unfairly. There are different types of elements available that leads to workplace
discrimination at organization. Differences based on age between workers is the key factor that
leads to workplace discrimination and affect abilities of individual. It consider as practice
particularly prohibited by law, with certain rare exceptions organization are forbidden from
stating an age preference in job promotions. On the other hand, Vickers,(2016)highlighted that
there are various factors accessible that cause workplace discrimination. Religious
discrimination is illegal for any employer to discriminate based on a worker religious customs.
When leader do not provide accommodation to staff according to their religious beliefs it define
as another factor that lead this issue in firm.
Theme 3- Impact of workplace discrimination on workers and organization
According to Larsen and Waisman, 2016 discrimination at workplace directly affect staff
performance as well as their motivational level. Its affect are not limited to physical but also
metal influence on workers include developing anxiety disorders, depression, loss of self-control
leading to staff becoming unfriendly or even attempting suicide. Galvan and et.al., (2017)
perceived discrimination has impact on staff and company. It create negative working
environment at workplace and decrease the capabilities of workers to perform. When people do
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not feel comfortable at work area it impact on their motivational level and productivity, they
refuse to take participate in task given by leaders. All above things impact on firm productivity
and profitability, without strong workforce organization cannot be to sustain within specific
sector.
Theme 4- Negative impact brought by workplace discrimination
Discussed by Heywood and Jirjahn,(2016)that workplace discrimination put negative
impact on work environment and employees. It leave the staff member confused and broken,
they may take to dugs or alcohol or may from their own opinions on others. Negative impact of
discrimination directly impact mental ability of applicant. It outcomes in sadness, feeling of
emptiness and anxiety. These often translated into stress related ailments, loss of interest and
eating disorders. All kinds of discrimination can negatively affect employment, relations and
quality of life. Agan and Starr, (2018) stated that workplace discrimination is one of the biggest
crime and illegal action that an individual can do against other person at workplace who is
different from them on basis of age, race, colour etc. It decrease productivity and profitability of
business and affect brand image in marketplace.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research type: Research is the type of the investigation which used to take place regarding the
issue which is faced by the organization in carrying out different operation in the firm.
Qualitative and quantitative are two type of research types which are seen. Qualitative
research is research which used to shown result in non numeric form and quantitative
research type used to show data in numeric form. Scholar has used qualitative research type
as it was getting tougher to present data in numeric form.
Research Philosophy: Research philosophy is defined as a different belief about gathering and
collecting data for the purpose of carry out outcome of research. Interpretivism and
Positivism are two philosophies which are mainly used in the field of research. Scholar has
used interpretive research philosophy to conduct this research in an organization.
Research approach : Research approach is the process in which different assumption are made
regarding different research process. Assumption are made in relation to the way data can
be collected and interpreted to find out the outcome of the research. There are two types of
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research approach i.e inductive and deductive research approach. Scholar mainly use
deductive research approach as help in assess to new data by using primary data and for
qualitative research type it provide crucial support as well. whereas Inductive approach help
in examine the primary data and build new theory on the basis of outcome. In regards to
current study inductive research philosophy has been used as it used to support the type of
research approach selected.
Data collection: Data collection used to play a very crucial role in achieving the objective of the
research in better way. Data collection refers to process in which variety of different
information is collected to find out the outcome of the project on the basis of same.
Research has choice among two types of data collection method i.e primary and secondary
data. When the data is collected for the first time then it is know as primary data collection
tool. At the same time where any information collected from the source which have already
collected data like magazine and newsletter know as secondary data collection method. In
regards to the current research, scholar has gone with both primary as well as secondary
data collection tool. Primary data will be collected by the way of conducting the survey
which will be targeted on selected respondent. At the same time secondary data will be
collected by the way of going through magazine and article related to topic of project.
Data analysis: Data which have already collected have to be correctly interpreted and analyzed
to get the required information. Data should be represented in the form of graphs and tables
which make data in simplest form which can be understood by any individual. As a result
scholar has selected thematic data analysis tool.
Sampling: Process in which respondent is selected from the total population is know as
sampling. It can be done in two ways i.e probabilistic and non-probabilistics. When each
person has equal chance to select from total population known as probabilistic. Mainly
random sampling method is used in this method. In non-probabilistics all respondents do
not have equal chance of selection. In this 20 employees are selected for the study.
DATA ANALYSIS
QUESTIONNAIRE
Name:
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Age:
1. Are you familiar with concept of Workplace Discrimination?
 Yes
 No
2. In your thought what are the factor which leads to workplace discrimination
 Age
 Religious
 Gender
 All of Above
3. Is there any sort of Impact of Workplace discrimination on workplace of Sainsbury?
 Yes
 No
4. What impact does Workplace discrimination used to bring on Employee Performance?
 Reduced Morale of Employee
 Impact confidence level of Employee
 Mental influence
 All of Above
5. What are the negative impacts which are brought on Workplace Discrimination?
 Negative Working Environment
 Difficult in change resistance
 Policy making
 All of above
6. What are different factor through which Impact of Workplace Discrimination can be
managed?
 Training to employee
 Clarity of working among employee
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 Improvement in recruitment policy
 All of Above
7. Is reducing workplace discrimination Help Company in reducing employee turnover?
Justify your answer?
Theme 1:” Knowledge about Workplace Discrimination”
Particular Respondent % of respondent
Yes 28 93.33
No 2 6.67
Total 30 100.00
Interpretation: Collected data with the help of primary data collection tool, Explain that
there is good understanding about workplace discrimination at workplace. This will eventually
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Yes No
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100 93.33
6.67
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help the company in bringing the variety of new policy in the organization more efficiently. As
all the employee in the organization will find it easy to adopt different policy. Result shows that
28 respondents out of 30 respondents has chosen option of yes and remaining 2 respondent has
chosen No as option. This is very good sign for the company, as it has been identified that at the
time of any decision taken in the organization in regards of workplace discrimination all the
respondent will understand the same.
Theme 2: “Factor which leads to workplace discrimination”
Particular Respondent % of respondent
Age 2 6.67
Religious 10 33.33
Gender 17 56.67
All of Above 1 3.33
Total 30 100.00
Interpretation: Collected data through survey helps the scholar in interpretating that
Gender is one of the biggest factor which used to drives the workplace discrimination in an
organization. Also it has seen that religious is another factor which used to drive workplace
discrimination. Collected data shows that out of total 30 respondent, 17 and 10 respondent has
gone with Gender and Religious. Remaining 2 and 1 respondent has gone with the option of Age
and all of above. Author also, highlights the same in the literature review section, as author
highlights that still there are many cases which are generally seen in the organization which
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means that males are generally prefered more as compare to the female in the organization in
long run.
Theme3: “Impact of Workplace discrimination on workplace of Sainsbury”
Particular Respondent % of respondent
No 19 63.33
Yes 11 36.67
Total 30 100.00
Interpretation: Primary data collection tool explain that respondent thinks that there is
no impact of workplace discrimination in Sainsbury. As 19 out of 30 respondent has chosen the
option of No. Remaining 11 has chosen option of Yes. Organization has to makes sure that 11 is
not that small number to ignore. Organization at the same time has to make sure that they used
to consider looking at the policy as well as 11 is not that small number to be ignored, so
organization has to make sure that they used to bring the variety of different decision in the
organization which will help the company in managing the impact of workplace discrimination
in better way
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Theme 4:” Impact of Workplace Discrimination on employee performance”
Particular Respondent % of respondent
Reduced Morale of Employee 2 6.67
Impact confidence level of Employee 1 3.33
Mental influence 3 10.00
All of Above 25 83.33
Total 30 100.00
Interpretation: After going through data collected with the help of survey it has been interpreted
that there are many different impact which are brought on the performance of the employee due
to workplace discrimination. As out of 30 respondent pool, 25 has gone with the option of all of
above, remaining 2, 1 and 3 respondent has gone with the option of Reduced Morale, Impact
confidence level and Mental influence of the employee in the market. This result was
highlighted by the author in the literature review section of the report as well. As author has
highlighted that there are more than one impact which is generally seen by the different
organization at the time of managing the workplace discrimination. Primary data collected used
to provide the evidence to variety of different data which has been collected in general.
Theme 5: Impact of Workplace discrimination on workplace
Particular Respondent % of respondent
Negative Working Environment 18 60.00
Difficult in change resistance 4 13.33
Policy making 3 10.00
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All of above 5 16.67
Total 30 100.00
Interpretation: Collected data, helps the scolor in interpretating that negative
environement is the biggest impact of having workplace discrimination at workplace. As
collected data shows that out of 30 respondent pool 18 has gone with the option of Negative
working environment. Remaining 4, 3 and 5 respondent has chosen option of Difficult in change
resistance, Policy making and All of Above respectively. This eventually shows that Negative
working environment is one of the impact which is seen by the organization, reaon behind the
same can be gender discrimination generally used to build variety of the different type of the
group which are having different point of view to explain in the organization.
Theme 6: ”Impact of Workplace Discrimination can be managed”
Particular Respondent % of respondent
Training to employee 21 70.00
Clarity of working among employee 5 16.67
Improvement in recruitment policy 3 10.00
All of Above 1 3.33
Total 30 100.00
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` Interpretation: Information which was gather with the help of Survey, has helped in
interpretating that providing training to employee will be the best way through which impact of
workplace discrimination can be reduced in the organization. As out of total pool of 30
respondent 21 respondent has chosen the option of Training to employee. Remaining 5, 3 and 1
respondent has chosen the option of Clarity, Improvement in recruitment policy and all of above
respectively. As per the literature review the reason which has driven different individual to
select the same method is that, adopting the training culture will help the company in promoting
better image of company in front of the other in the market.
Theme 7: “Reducing workplace discrimination Help Company in reducing employee
turnover”
Interpretation: After going through the suggestion of different respondent, it has been
highlighted that reducing amount of workplace discrimination in the organization, used to help
the company in reducing amount of employee turnover in an organization. As low impact of
workplace discrimination used to build good relationship between all the employee in an
organization and build good trust among all employees.
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KEY FINDING
Gender is one of the key basis on the basis of which workplace discrimination used to
take place in the organzation. After that it has find that there is low level of workplace
discrimination present at workplace but there is still some sort of workplace discrimination. Also
it has been find out that training is the best way through which impact of workplace
discrimination can be reduced at workplace.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Report concludes that there are variety of different type of discrimination which is
generally seen by the organization in the long run. As it has been identified that Gender
discrimination is the one which is prevailing more as compare to other type of discrimination at
workplace.
After that it has been concluded that morale of different employee generally see a
drastically change and also workplace discrimination used to build negative working
environment in the organization in long run.
After going through the report it has been recommended to the organization that they
should invest some sort of the resources toward training this will eventually help the company in
reducing the impact of workplace discrimination in the market hence it eventually means that
training is the best way to manage the impact of workplace discrimination.
Another recommendation which has been made for the organization is that organization
has to make sure that their is good flow of communication in the organization, as their is still
some employee who used to believe that their is workplace discrimination in Sainsbury.
RESEARCH LIMITATION
There were many limitations which was seen by the scholar in the process of carrying
out research for the organization. The first limitation was the time allotted to complete the
project was too limited. By taking help of colleague scholar was able to complete the project on
time. Another issue was related to checking out the progress with the tutor but by taking meeting
time, this issue was also solved by scholar in the market.
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REFLECTION
This project help me in gather more information and knowledge relating to the equality
and diversity and gender discrimination . It was a good experience for me as it help me in
learning more. With this research I was able to learn about formation of aims and objectives. I
also learn that researcher can know in advance about the method they should use by listing all
the research method. Also, this report has helped me in getting information regarding
information about the topic of the research. As in the past I was not having that sort of
knowledge about the topic of the research in a long run.
It also help in enhancing my communication skills as communication is very important
in every type of research . In addition to this have have learn many more skills as well. Another
skill which was developed by me was analysis skill, as this report has asked me to analysis good
amount of data related to the research which can be carried out in the organization.
To bring more accurate and reliable results researcher used quantitative research instead
of qualitative research.for collecting more reliable data researcher used deductive approach
instead of inductive approach.
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