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Research Participant Consent Form

Research Title: Workplace diversity and employee satisfaction. Case Study- Tesco plc.

Researcher(s) Information:

Name(s): Marian Alexandru Dumitru Contact Information: Tel: 07448 126690, Mail: marianalexandrudumitru45@gmail.comIntroduction:You are invited to participate in a research study conducted by students from the BA Top-Up Level 6 program. Before you decide to participate, you need to understand why the research is being done and what it will involve. Please take the time to read the following information carefully and discuss it with others if you wish. You can ask us if there is anything that is not clear or if you would like more information. Your participation is entirely voluntary, and you can withdraw at any time without penalty.

Purpose of the Study

The aims of the research proposed is to find out how the different cultures can influence within a business such as Tesco plc, and also to analyse the grade of satisfaction of the employee working within this business.

The purpose of the project is the existence of the diversity within a business which is visible and which is a subject not to be ignored, because the influence of the different cultures is important to be understood especially by the leaders and managers who need to make the employee to feel they are welcomed to feel free for who they are so the satisfaction of the employees will grow the productivity.

The research will answer to some questions such as: How to motivate the employees from different cultures to have the same goal together? How to find solutions so that cultural differences are not felt between employees? How to make the employee to be satisfied within the workplace? How the employees satisfaction influence the business results on the market?

What Does Participation Involve?

If you agree to participate in this study, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire. The process will take approximately half an hour of your time.

Risks and Discomforts

There are no major risks or disconforts the participants at the research will meet.

Benefits

The leaders will improve the activity from the business where the research is conducted, taking into account the answers from the participants at the research.

Confidentiality

Your responses will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law. All data will be stored securely and will only be accessible by the research team. Results will be reported in aggregate form only, and no personal identifiers will be included in any publications or presentations.

Voluntary Participation

Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary. You are free to refuse to take part or to withdraw at any time, without affecting your relationship with the researchers or [Institution Name].

Right to Withdraw

You have the right to withdraw from the study at any point without giving a reason. If you choose to withdraw, any data collected from you will be deleted.

Consent to Participate

By signing this form, you are agreeing to participate in the research as described above.

I have read the above information, and any questions I asked have been answered to my satisfaction. I agree to participate in this research study and understand that I have the right to withdraw at any time without penalty.

Participant's Name (Printed): Popescu Daniel

Participant's Signature: PD

Date: 17/09/2024

Researcher's Name (Printed): Marian Alexandru Dumitru

Researcher's Signature: MDA

Date: 17/09/2024

Thank you for considering participation in our research. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

Xxxxxx Team

Elizabeth School of London

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Assessment Brief

Business and Management Project

Introduction

There are three summative assessments, as follows.

Yourproposal 25%

Yourproject write-up 70%

Supervisionresearch meetings 5%

Total 100%

Assessment briefs, guides and marking grids are available in Appendices 1 and 2 for Assessments 1 and 2 of the Handbook, respectively.They are also available in their particular folders, below.

Assessment type: Individual project proposal

Deadline: 13th May 2024, by 23:59 pm

Word limit: 2,000 words ( 10%)

Referencing convention: Harvard

Submit via: Online only, via the relevant Turnitin UK portal under the Assessment folder in VLE

Proportion of overall module mark: 25%

Assessment Brief

Your proposal is a research plan. It concerns what you want to do, by when, with whom, along with the context to your study.Its called a proposal as opposed to a plan because you need permission (ethical permission, mainly) before you get started, so you propose a research project/study which, all being well, is authorised for you to undertake.

Your work needs to be original, which can be achieved by various means, including by:

Carrying out empirical work that has not been done before.

Synthesising issues not put together before.

Looking at topics that people in a discipline have not looked at before.

Examining existing knowledge in an original way; or,

Bringing new evidence to bear on an old issue.

In 2,000 words ( 10%), detail your proposed research plan. Your research proposal should tell your supervising tutor:

What the project is about its' context.

What your particular research question is.

What you are trying to find out and achieve.

How you will go about doing that.

What we will learn from it and why that new knowledge has value.

This will enable your supervising tutor to evaluate your research ideas and will give you chance to amend them if required.

A typical research proposal would contain the following sections:

Front cover Attractively presented, with the proposed title of your research prominently presented (like on a textbook), along with your name and student number.

Introduction A brief overview of your research topic.What is your research about and why do you think it is worth studying?If there is a major focus of your study (a theory, organisation, concept, issue, etc.) introduce it here.

Research question, and sub-questions and/or objectives. State your research question (or statement), together with a set of sub-questions and/or objectives.Make sure these are clear and logical and, taken together, comprehensively cover the narrow, focussed research question you have proposed.

Preliminary literature review Demonstrate your understanding of the relevant literature in your topic area (in circa less than 1,000 words).This should be a review of predominantly, if not exclusively, quality scholarly, peer-reviewed literature.

Methodology/ Timescales/

Ethical Considerations Explain how you propose to collect data to address your research question.What is your research strategy, design, and methodological choices?Justifying your choices is essential here why is method X appropriate for your study, and why arent methods Y and Z?Discuss the practicalities of your research too (e.g.,timescales (perhaps a Gantt chart); resource implications (software costs, stationery, travel, etc.).

It is essential that you also brieflydiscuss the major ethical issuesarising in your study, and how you intend to address these.(A fuller exploration of these will occur through the ethical approval process.)

List of references References should be immaculately formatted to capitalise on every available percentage point.Alphabetise your list.

Appendices Appendices should be limited to providing detailed information that are not appropriate for inclusion in the main text.They provide additional reference material for readers who may wish to verify or further investigate information you have presented in the main text. Appendices should be concise. If your project requires use of an information sheet and consent form these should be included here.You may wish to also include your research instrument.

ALL students MUST complete the Ethical Approval Form and submit this in the VLE by 23:59 pm, 13/05/2024. This is the same deadline as for the Research Proposal assessment.

You MUST NOT COLLECT DATA UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED ETHICAL APPROVAL FROM YOUR SUPERVISOR.

Once you have approval, which may be granted to you on condition that you take certain steps,YOU REMAIN RESPONSIBLEfor acting ethically and meeting the conditions imposed on you (if any).

What to do

Navigate tohttps://thehub.bathspa.ac.uk/services/research-and-graduate-affairs/graduate-college/integrity-and-ethicsRead the webpage entirely, and consider doing the Research Integrity 2.0 course (see the 'Research ethics training' section of the webpage)

Carefully read, consider, then download and complete theUndergraduate and Postgraduate Taught - Fast-Track Ethical Approval Formaccurately (found in the 'Documents for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students').Consult your supervisor if you have any doubts about how to complete the form.If you tick 'no' to all Section 2 questions and do NOT need to complete the Section B and C form,submit your work to the'Simple Case' portal.

If you ticked 'yes' to any questions in Section 2 of the Fast-Track form, complete the Section B and C form in full.Submit all forms (as one file) to the'Complex Case' portal.

Yoursupervising tutoris able to approve projects where (a) you have correctly completed the form; and, (b) the Section B & C form is not required (i.e.,you have submitted to the Simple case portal).Submit once and then continue correspondence with your supervisor via email, if necessary, as many times as required to get approval.Your supervisor will mark your submission 'approved' or 'not approved'.Please note that:

If 'approved', this is likely to be subject to conditions specified.Please take note and give effect to these.

If 'not approved', you will need to consider any feedback provided, amend your Form, and resubmit it,before you collect ANY data.

TheBath Business School Ethical Review Panelstrongly advise you to AVOID those projects where section B & C is required (i.e.,they are complex cases).If you submit your Form to the complex case portal, you will need to await a decision (usually given within 3-4 weeks).For these cases, it is critical that you comprehensively and honestly assess the relevant ethical issues and provide informed, proportionate, and appropriate responses.You will not receive approval if you do not properly and fully address the ethical issues arising from your proposed project. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you AVOID those projects where section B & C is required.

Please note that failure to observe the Universitys research protocols properly and fully is a matter of Academic Misconduct.If you cause harm of any type to participants or other persons it is likely you will be subject to disciplinary proceedings.The safest way to avoid harm to others, and protect your academic record, is to train yourself fully and meaningfully in ethics (including via independent research), fully and properly complete the relevant forms, react in full and substantively to feedback received, liaise with your supervisor, and consider ethics throughout the research process.

Introduction

Assessment type: Individual report

Deadline: 7th October 2024, at 23:59 pm

Word limit: 8,000 words ( 10%)

Referencing convention: Harvard

Submit via: Online only, via the relevant Turnitin UK portal under the Assessment folder in VLE

Proportion of overall module mark: Yourproject write-up 70%

Supervisionresearch meetings (5 times) 5%

Total for AS 2 75%

Rationale

This is the write-up of your efforts over the last 4-7 months (depending on when you started).It informs the reader of what you set out to discover, what the context of that search was, how you went about answering your question(s) and what those answers are, along with confirmation of why that new knowledge is useful and worth knowing all in 8,000 words ( 10%).

Assessment brief

In 8,000 words( 10%), write up your research findings in an appropriate format and style. Your write-up will normally have a structure like this:

Front cover Attractively presented, with the proposed title of your research prominently presented (like on a textbook), along with your name, your supervisors name, your student number, word count, and the following at the foot of the page:

A dissertation submitted to Bath Spa University in accordance with the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts in [insert rest of degree title here] in Bath Business School

Declaration Add a page with the following.If you are able, add your digitised signature below, or else type out your name.Add the date of your declaration underneath.

I declare that the work in this dissertation was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Universitys Regulations, Codes and Policies, including the Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes, Student General Regulations, and the Academic Misconduct Policy, and that it has not been submitted for any other academic award.I declare that this is wholly my own work and any views expressed are my own, except:Where I have indicated that I have worked collaboratively with others; quoted from the work of others, where I have formatted the quote appropriately, and have included the source of that quote with citations as appropriate.Where I have used others ideas, I have given due credit by way of citation(s).

Acknowledgements (optional) If youd like to thank anyone for their help in respect of your research project efforts, you may wish to include a note of it here.

Abstract The abstract is very important.It is a condensed summary of the complete content of your complete research project (up to 300 words).This is best created towards the end of your writing. Saunders et al (2009) suggest it should contain four short paragraphs addressing the following questions:

What were my research questions, and why were these important?

How did I go about answering the research questions?

What did I find out in response to my research questions?

What conclusions do I draw regarding my research questions?

The abstract is not included in the word count.

Table of contents Formatted like those in your textbooks.Use the function built into Word to produce this/these. You may also need to include a Table of Tables and/or a Table of Figures and/or a List of Abbreviations.

Introduction Your word count begins here.

Your introductory chapter should provide a clear idea about the subject of your research and why you thought it was worth studying.You should briefly outline what you did and why.Restate your main question (copied from the cover page) and detail your sub-questions.

If your research is focused on a specific organisation/theory/person, etc., it is usual to include some background information on this here.

Include your research question (copied from the front page), and sub-questions and/or objectives should be at the end of this and should be explicitly linked to the literature that follows.

Literature review The literature review should provide a clear and balanced picture of the published literature relevant to your topic.Synthesise the literature, extracting the key themes and debates.The links to your project should be clear.Saunders and Lewis (2012, p. 33) suggest your literature review provides the base on which you will build your research project stand on the shoulders of giants! You should try to explicitly identify the gap in the reviewed literature that you plan to fill with new knowledge.

Methodology Explain what you did.Clearly.This should be a detailed chapter giving the reader enough information to make an estimate of the reliability and validity of your methods.Things you may need to include comprise your philosophical position; the nature of your study (quaL/quaNT; deductive; experimental; longitudinal, etc.); your research population, and sampling technique; what methods you have used to collect data; how you have analysed your data; what concepts, theories, scales, tests you are using; what tools you have used; what were your ethical considerations.

Be critical in your writing.As well as providing the rationale for your approach. Explain whether the particular approach worked for you in practice, and why it did/not.Consider the validity/reliability/rigour of your methodological choices.

Results/Findings This is where you present your empirical discoveries.Use appropriate tables and graphs to illustrate your results, where appropriate.They should be immaculately formatted.This chapter may include verbatim quotes from interviewees.There are two points to bear in mind when writing your results.Firstly, the purpose is to present empirical findings it is not appropriate in this chapter to offer opinions on those particular findings (the discussion and conclusions chapters are reserved for this).Secondly, consider how you present your results/findings.One of the simplest ways is to return to the research question and objectives and let these inform the order of your results.Do not simply provide a table and/or graph for each question in your research instrument.

Discussion It is your discussion that will demonstrate whether you have answered the research question and show the degree of insight that you exhibit in reaching your conclusions. This is where you can make inferences, explain what youve found and relate it to the literature.

Conclusion Saunders et al (2009) urge you to pay attention to your conclusions.They suggest that this is where you are making judgements rather than reporting facts so this is where your level of understanding can shine through.You need to ask, So what? for each of your findings and to what extent have I answered my research question(s) and met my research objectives?Avoid the rehash of the findings trap!

Your word count ends here 8,000 words 10%!

List of references Like yours in-text references, these should be immaculately formatted to capitalise on every available mark.

Appendices Appendices should be limited to providing detailed information, particularly results, that are not appropriate for inclusion in the main text.They provide additional reference material for readers who may wish to verify or further investigate information you have presented in the main text. Appendices should be concise.

Please note that the Assessment Q&A provides supplementary instruction to this brief and should be considered part of it.Failure to incorporate instruction given in the Q&A may lead to a reduction in mark; adoption of such instruction may result in an increased mark.

WORKPLACE DIVERSITY AND EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION

Front Cover

Workplace Diversity and Employee Satisfaction

Research Proposal

Elizabeth

Student Number: 123456

Bath Spa University

Introduction

In the current scenario, it becomes central for companies across the world to embrace diversity and create workforce compositions that resonate with the broad-based clients and stockholders whom they serve. Workplace diversity, apart from embracing age, gender, ethnic, cultural, and other demographic factors of employees, is a critical part of a business today. When its diversity is leveraged, an organization can experience a boosted number of innovative ideas, better quality of decisions, and expanded problem-solving capabilities (Herring, 2009).

Nonetheless, diversity function within the organizations is a complex undertaking because of the multiple facets. Mismanagement of diversity can bring along conflicts, and communication failures, and consequently, this leads to employee dissatisfaction (Ely & Thomas, 2001). Factors like unjustified prejudices, auto stereotyping, and intercultural values can produce obstacles to harmonious interconnection and a feeling of belonging for employees belonging to different backgrounds.

This research proposal intends to investigate the relationship between diversity and employee satisfaction within the multi-national integrations working in the UK with a special focus on the potential benefits and challenges associated with this. Many multinational corporations are renowned for hiring a diverse workforce from different countries and cultures. It is therefore imperative to have a valid diversity managing strategy because it helps to boost business competency and success.

This is clearly about the diversity management practices and their effect on employee outcomes. Discussing this topic could help us create a body of knowledge about it. Particularly, the study will target the workers from the mega-corporation, specifically, the understanding of staff expressing and experiencing workplace diversity and how perceptions towards diversity matter with the overall job satisfaction of the employees.

Clarifying the dynamics of this relationship becomes the most basic requirement for any organization that wants to ensure that it has the required synergy and that the people underneath it feel good at work. A cooperative and cheerful workforce can make the organizations performance better through higher productivity rates, lower turnover rates, and thus a better competitive advantage for the enterprise (Chinenye Gbemisola Okatta et al., 2024).

The project will be using a mixed method approach to data collection which will involve (both) quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews so that a comprehensive puzzle about the employees' viewpoints, work experiences, as well as attitudes concerning workplace diversity and their implications for their job satisfaction will be completed. The study will take the employees from diverse demographic groups and levels of the organizational structure to be considered, giving the researcher a chance to the wide perspectives and realities in the multinational corporation.

The findings from this study hold a lot of promise for the enterprise to provide critical advice towards the goal of achieving the maximum advantages that a diverse workforce can offer while aiming at mitigating some potential challenges. This study can be an excellent platform for the analysis of good diversity management practices and policies. It can also highlight areas where there is a need for improvement. Ultimately it will aim to create more satisfying work environments that foster inclusivity and organizational success resulting in a pleased workforce.

Research Question and Sub-Questions

The primary research question guiding this study is: What is the influence of workplace diversity on the employees' satisfaction and which leading UK multinational company do you give an example from?

To address this overarching question, the following sub-questions will be explored:

1. Define what are the important dimensions of diversity (e.g., race, gender, etc). Firstly, the investigation should spell out how the various factors (age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background) affect the role of employees. How do they cue the perceptions of coworkers?

2. How do they feel about the diversity practices and programs that an organization creates as they run them for the employees?

3. What, in fact, is the way diversity is perceived by employees and how does it influence their levels of job satisfaction, motivation, and engagement with the organization overall?

4. Why do wards, ethnicity, and the other subunits receive a distinctive treatment from the management? For example, age, gender, and ethnicity experience and value diversity in the workplace differently and what impact does it have on their level of satisfaction?

Preliminary Literature Review

Workplace diversity is increasingly treated as a top issue in organizational behaviour and human resource management research, and this is a sign that this matter is becoming widely known. With globalization on the rise and attaching to it different workplaces around the world, businesses are learning that a diverse workforce that accommodates various roots, points of view, and experiences shared among their customer base and stakeholders is key. Despite this, how leaders overcome diversity-related problems in organizations is many-sided, and such consequences can adversely impact the company's productivity, staff welfare, and competitiveness.

While there is often support for diverse hiring, some people think that psychological differences within the workplace can enhance an organization. In "The Meta-Analytic Review of Team and Workgroup Diversity", Badjir et al. (2017) conclude that there is a positive correlation between team or workgroup diversity and an astronomic amount of creativity, forward development, and problem-solving. By involving many kinds of people with different experiences, ways of thinking, and others, the organizations will have the opportunity to benefit from a broader perspective and knowledge base, arriving at transversal and creative solutions (Herring, 2009). Furthermore, the research by Badjir et al. (2017) was because it is not a surprise for most people that varied teams have improved decision-making processes since these kinds of teams are more skilful in studying all the aspects of the problems and eliminate the risks of groupthink.

Preferably, there are many beneficial outcomes for diversity management but, for sure, companies face serious difficulties in designing and implementing a productive multicultural organisational culture. According to Badjir et al. (2017), applying knowledge to attaining diverse work becomes harder due to, communication barriers, stereotyping, and conflicts emanating from value and thinking differences. These hurdles unfold through wrong communication, and personal conflicts, and are faced by some groups who struggle for acceptance in a multicultural society (Ely & Thomas, 2001).

The numerous research that has been conducted to establish the effectiveness of diversity in the workplace in terms of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to resign is one of the revealed potential edges and challenges. Choi and Rainey (2010) involved U. S federal agency employees to determine how employees' perceptions of diversity management practices possibly had a role in job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Concretely, the inclusion of employees' perceptions was crucial, the employees who perceived their organization as respecting diversity and adopting sound Diversity Management interventions exhibited higher levels of job satisfaction and a higher sense of commitment toward the organization, respectively.

Demonstrating a similar thought is Ng and Seers (2020) who looked at how the climate of diversity impacts employees' engagement levels. They outlined the diversity climate which was made up of employees' common mindsets about the company's approach to policies, principles, and procedures that promote diversity and equity. Apart from this, diversity climate research showed that their respondents, having a favourable diversity environment, were more engaged. Such employees, as a rule, are not only more satisfied with their jobs and are more productive, but also, they are more open to organizational citizenship behaviours.

These results can allow us to make some conclusions about the role of diversity management in a successful organization; however, there is a need for more empirical studies that would explore the complexity of the relation between these two phenomena, especially in the case of multinationals British operation. In an age where organisations tend to become more globalized, grasping the complexities of successfully running a diverse team despite the nature of the cultures within the specific jurisdictions becomes vital.

It needs to be investigated further the segment of roles played by the demographic considerations in informing as well as shaping the employee's views of workplace diversity. Past studies indicated that all these factors such as age, gender, race, and culture could interfere with their attitudes toward diversity and disparities within multicultural work environments (Ely and Thomas, 2001; Herring, 2009). This seems to be a beginning and more complicated studies are needed to disclose the role played by the above-mentioned background factors as well as diverse management organizational practices and policies in employee satisfaction strategy, especially of the multinational companies operating in Great Britain.

Besides, more research studies of, exactly, what mechanisms are the most essential in the development of those effective diversity management practices that enhance employee satisfaction is necessary. Even though existing research has proclaimed that diversity management on the one hand goes together with improved employee outcomes, on the other hand, researching the process and mediator factors can provide a clue to maximize the benefits of a diverse workforce for organizations.

Through engaging in empirical research with a multinationals headquarters located in the UK, this study is purposed to add to the existing literature on workplace diversity and employee job satisfaction. Through studying from the standpoint of employees belonging to different cultures and backgrounds and establishing how the organization is running and diversifying management, these insights can provide important information to organizations endeavouring to build a workplace that is welcoming and fulfilling among their diverse targets.

Methodology

The research will employ a mixed methodology by using both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques to get a complete understanding of the relationship between workplace diversity and employees' attitudes in the workplace of a multinational company that operates in the United Kingdom.

The qualitative part will be to undertake a survey involving a cross-section of employees that is representative of the organization. Specifically, the survey will attempt to determine employees' views on workplace diversity, diversity management schemes the organization has in place, and finally, the levels of job satisfaction the employees experience. To measure the measures carefully reliably and validly, previously validated scales will be used to build, and these will be incorporated into the survey.

The qualitative component will include conducting in-depth interviews with the survey participants. This is the place where we will converse with the employees of different demographic groups (women, men, people of different colors and ethnicities, old and young people, etc.). For example: age, gender, ethnicity, and cultural and institutional backgrounds form the basis of interpersonal interactions. Intra-organizational dynamics are shaped by a multitude of factors, including gender, age, ethnicity, and cultural and institutional backgrounds that affect the social interaction between members. Interviews will uncover in-depth narratives about personal experiences, attitudes, and beliefs, and the relationship between it with satisfaction at work. These qualitative data will provide further information, besides the quantitative ones, about how diversity is managed, and more precisely about its challenges and complexities within the organizational context.

Timescales

Month Activities

Month 1 Comprehensive literature review and development of the survey instrument.

Month 2 The data collection phase involves the administration of the survey to the employee sample.

Month 3 The data collection phase involves conducting semi-structured interviews with selected participants.

Month 4 Data analysis and interpretation, encompass both quantitative and qualitative data sets.

Month 5 Data analysis and interpretation, encompass both quantitative and qualitative data sets.

Month 6 Report writing and dissemination of findings to relevant stakeholders within the organization and the academic community.

Ethical Considerations

Ethical issues are the biggest concerns that ever involve research on human subjects. This research will abide by the quality ethical standards and principles, such as those of Bath Spa University and the professional bodies in the field of organization behaviour and human resource management.

The participants' informed consent will be provided before the participation of the participants in the study. Participants will be given a full description of the meaning of the research, their rights as participants, and the measures the researcher is ready to take so that the identity and personal characteristics of the respondents will be protected. It will be reaffirmed that their involvement is entirely voluntary, and in case they decide to terminate, they should not be worried about facing any consequences.

The study, however, must pass through all ethical economy procedures set by the university's ethical review committee before the collection of data begins. This review aims to ensure that the investigation respects some established ethical rules and that there are precautions to avoid the lowering of the privacy, dignity, and well-being of all participants in the research.

Specific consideration will be given to identifying potential ethical dilemmas that come with the nature of the topic under discussion and the inclemencys of power dynamics that are inherent to the organizational setting. Measures will be taken to ensure that there is an environment of safety where participants would feel respected enough to freely express themselves without the fear of repercussions or consequences.

By giving the moral aspect of the whole research process a priority, this study is aiming to do so keeping the highest standards of honesty, respect, and professionalism, and at the same time contributing meaningful and insightful research data to the field of workplace diversity and employee satisfaction.

List of References

Badjir, F., Kassim, N. A., & Zakaria, N. H. (2017). Workplace diversity and employees' job outcomes: An empirical study of workforce diversity practices in a multi-national company in Malaysia. International Journal of Economics and Management, 11(1), 197-215. https://ijem.upm.edu.my/vol11no1/9.pdfChoi, S., & Rainey, H. G. (2010). Managing diversity in U.S. federal agencies: Effects of diversity and diversity management on employee perceptions of organizational performance. Public Administration Review, 70(1), 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02115.xEly, R. J., & Thomas, D. A. (2001). Cultural diversity at work: The effects of diversity perspectives on work group processes and outcomes. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(2), 229-273. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667087Herring, C. (2009). Does diversity pay?: Race, gender, and the business case for diversity. American Sociological Review, 74(2), 208-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240907400203Chinenye Gbemisola Okatta, Funmilayo Aribidesi Ajayi, & Olufunke Olawale. (2024, April 25). Enhancing Organizational Performance Through Diversity And Inclusion Initiatives: A Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Applied Research in Social Sciences, 6(4), 734758. https://doi.org/10.51594/ijarss.v6i4.1065

Project Title

Dissertation

Title

Supervisor Name

Business and Management

Word Count: 8000

by [your name]

Registration No.: [your student #]

Academic Year 2024-2025

Elizabeth School of London

Copyright Elizabeth School of London. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

Abstract

This is the most important part of the report. The summary should contain the gist of the report. The entire information carried in the report must be conveyed in its es- sense. This is going to be the section based on which a reader will decide whether to read the whole report or not. Not more than one A 4 page.

Note this Summary of the dissertation within one page and no headings Arial font size 12, or 11 flexibilities to keep within one page

Spacing 1.5.

APPENDIX 7 DISSERTATION DECLARATION

Statement of Originality and Authenticity

I confirm that the dissertation I am submitting is an original and authentic piece of work written by myself that satisfies the Elizabeth school of London rules and regulations with respect to Plagiarism and Collusion. I further confirm that I have fully referenced and acknowledged all material incorporated as secondary resources in accordance with the Harvard system.

I also certify that I have taken a copy of the dissertation, which I will retain until after the Board of Examiners has published the results, and which I will make available on request in pursuance of any appropriate aspect of the marking and moderation of the work within the University Regulations.

Name: .

Registration Number:

Programme: Business and Management

Study Centre: Elizabeth School of London (Campus)

Date:

Please note that Dissertations will not be assessed without the inclusion of this declaration by the student

Please note that Dissertations may not be assessed without the inclusion of electronic copies which may be submitted through the Turnitin software to check for authenticity.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledge anyone who has helped you in your work such as your supervisor, technical support staff, fellow students or external organizations. Acknowledge the source of any work that is not your own.

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Table of Contents

AbstractiAPPENDIX 7 - DISSERTATION () DECLARATIONiiAcknowledgementsiiiList of Figures and TablesivList of AbbreviationsvTable of ContentsviIntroduction1Background and Context1Aims and Objectives1Scope and Importance1Rational1Overview of Dissertation1Literature Review2Research Methodology3Data Presentation and Analysis4Results and Discussions5Conclusion and Recommendations6Summary6Evaluation of Results6Recommendations based on Evaluation6Future Work6Personal Development7References8Bibliography9Appendix 110Proposal11Introduction

Background and Context

Give the background to your project

Aims and Objectives

Scope and Importance

Rational

Overview of Dissertation

Briefly overview the contents of what follows in the dissertation.

Numeric Heading Scheme

Consistency in Headings

Literature Review

Literature related to your Title.

Literature related to your Research Objectives.

Theory and References related to your project title and research objectives.

Research Methodology

Research

Research Philosophies

Purpose of Research

Types of Research

Research Process and Design (Diagram)

Methods of Data Collections

Observations interviews questionnaires

Sampling Techniques

Research Ethics

Research Limitations

Data Presentation and Analysis

Graphical presentation of results of questionnaires or interview

Graphs

Tables

Pie charts

Bar charts

Results and Discussions

Cross reference with theory and practice

Identify gaps

Your own contribution to knowledge or solution to problem

Conclusion and Recommendations

Summary

Summarize what you have achieved.

Evaluation of Results

Explain any limitations in your results and how things might be improved

Recommendations based on Evaluation

Discuss how your work might be developed further.

Future Work

Discuss how your work might be developed further or related issues which you identified for further research.

Personal Development

Skills before this project

Skills after this project

References

Use the Harvard Reference style

Books, reports, journal articles, conference papers, and web pages are conventionally presented in slightly different ways.

Bibliography

Appendix 1

You may have one or more appendices containing detail, bulky or reference material that is relevant though supplementary to the main text: perhaps additional specifications, tables or diagrams that would distract the reader if placed in the main part of the dissertation.