Project Plan: Impact of Workplace Discrimination at Sainsbury's

This project plan outlines a research project focused on the impact of workplace discrimination on employee performance within Sainsbury's. The project aims to understand the concept of discrimination, identify factors affecting employee performance, and determine the relationship between discrimination and performance. The plan includes a problem statement highlighting the rise of workplace discrimination and its negative impact on staff. A literature review explores the concept of workplace discrimination, factors influencing employee performance, and the relationship between discrimination and performance, supported by secondary data. The project concludes with a discussion of the assessment type, which is a Gantt chart, and references. The project aims to provide insights into the impact of workplace discrimination and suggest ways to promote equal opportunities and motivation within the company.

Project Plan
An overview of project idea.
The following project plan is created on the concept of workplace discrimination and the impact
it holds over the performance of employees functioning within the company. This is an issue
which is largely increasing with the evolution of time and places a negative influence upon the

overall working and performance of corporation in the long run. This has an ultimate impact
over the productivity levels of employees in an adverse manner. Sainsbury’s has been chosen as
the company for this project.
Project aims and objectives
Research Aim:
“To acknowledge the impact placed by workplace discrimination on a multinational
corporation.” A secondary research on Sainsbury’s.
Research Objectives
 To understand the notion of discrimination at work premises.
 To ascertain the factors that pose impact over employees’ performance within the
confines of Sainsbury’s.
 To determine the relation between discrimination at work place and employees’
performance.
Problem Statement
Workplace discrimination is on a constant rise, placing impact over the performance of staff in a
negative manner. It is important for the company to address the issue in a timely manner.

Related literature and secondary data
Literature review
Concept of workplace discrimination
In accordance with the views and opinions of Costanza and Finkelstein (2015), it has been
analysed that workplace discrimination is the partial or biased behavioural conduct which is
received by some individuals or groups within the company. Discrimination at work place may
take place on the basis of any of the following aspects: caste, creed, gender, sexuality,
nationality, country of origin, race, colour, disability and so on. The biased behaviour done with
any employee or group on any of these bases would account for workplace discrimination.
Several factors this influences performance of employees in TESCO
As per the ideology of Clark (2017), it is determined that a number of factors impact over the
performance and productivity of staff members. These factors are acknowledged to be corporate
culture, reward management, recognition, working atmosphere etc. All of them play a crucial
role in facilitating or hindering employees in giving their efforts for timely achievement of
corporate goals and objectives.
Relationship between workplace discrimination and performance of TESCO’s employees
As per Landy and Conte (2016), there is an inversely proportional relation between employees’
performance and discrimination at work premises. This implies that whereby the discrimination
at work premises increases, it tends to indicate a consequent reduction in the performance of
employees at work.
Secondary data:
Researchers has made use of secondary data to carry out this project via the usage of book,
journal, online article etc.
Conclusion and assessment type
As per the above discussion, it can be stated that workplace discrimination tends to reduce the
productivity level of employees along with their potential to function. To effectively address
this, companies are now required to render equal and fair opportunity to all the staff members in
order to instil a sense of motivation within them.

Assessment type
Gantt chart is put to use by the investigator to gain knowledge of the start & end of every
activity.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Costanza, D.P. and Finkelstein, L.M., 2015. Generationally based differences in the workplace:
Is there a there there?. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 8(3), pp.308-323.
Landy, F.J. and Conte, J.M., 2016. Work in the 21st century: An introduction to industrial and
organizational psychology. John Wiley & Sons.
Clark, K.R., 2017. Managing multiple generations in the workplace. Radiologic
technology, 88(4), pp.379-396.