Establish project aims, objectives and timeframesbased on the chosen theme.

Research - Age based discrimination in Amazon

Learning Outcome 1: Establish project aims, objectives and timeframesbased on the chosen theme.

Learning Outcome 2: Conduct small-scale research, information gathering and data collection to generate knowledgeto support the project.

Learning Outcome 3: Present the project and communicate appropriate recommendations based on meaningful conclusions drawn from the evidence findings and/oranalysis.

Learning Outcome 4: Reflect on the value gained from conducting the project and its usefulness to support sustainable organisational performance.

Assignment - Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

Purpose
The aim of this assessment is to offer you an opportunity to plan and carry out a piece of original research, demonstrating the skills required for managing and implementing a small business research project.

Scenario
You need to carry out a piece of primary research on the subject of equality and diversity in the workplace.

Equality in this context meansensuring that everybody has the same access to the same opportunities without any discrimination. For example, people are not rejected for a job, denied promotion, given less important work, awarded lower performance appraisal marks or treated in any other way that is unfair because of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability etc. Diversity in this context means placing valuing on and respecting people`s different backgrounds, knowledge, skills and experiences and using these differences to create a productive and effective workforce.

Specifically, your topic needs to look at what issues and challenges may arise out of equality and diversity in the workplace and what measures could be taken to resolve them? You are doing your research within a limited word count and timeframe, so you cannot address this topic in general terms - it must be focussed on a specific organisation to which you can gain access to gather primary data. The organisation could be in the UK, your home country (if not the UK) or anywhere else.

Given the limitations within which you are working, you should focus on either equality or diversity, not both. You may also decide to look at equality in relation to a specific characteristic - for example, racial equality - rather than equality generally within the organisation. The proposed research should be a realistic one for a student to do in the time available. You are not expected to propose a topic that would require a large research team or take years to complete!