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Discrimination a working environment

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Business Research Skills (Course Code: BUSN09050)

Session: 2018 / 2019 Campus: Lanarkshire

This report will talk about discrimination in a work environment. This is a subject and a study that I chose to lead because we were instructed to choose a social or societal subject and develop it and conduct a study on it. It is clear that my profession Mr. Gillon has indeed validated my project of study by finding the problematic very interesting to study and to deepen. For this, a library and online documentation were necessary for more documentation on the subject and thus be able to create a survey to have answers on the subject. Moreover, from my professional experience, this subject of study interested me even more because I was a business developer in a major player in international recruitment.

Our objectives in this study were qualitative and quantitative. We wanted to know whether or not the people were aware that discrimination at work or during a job interview existed well, we also wanted to measure how many people were victims of these types of discrimination, because there are several, and they will be developed in our study. To carry out this study, we will choose a deductive approach, because you will see it later, it was the one that corresponded best to our problematic.

This study allowed us to verify that discrimination existed in companies, in a place and a working context. That it is a real problem today because the people who suffer from it suffer from it, and have a hard time staying concentrated in their work, to be productive and therefore these elements are no longer profitable for the economy. The great advantage of this research is that I was able to have both quantitative and qualitative responses where people gave their points of view on discrimination and had to find a solution. The disadvantage of this study is that, in spite of its interest, it would have to be communicated in mass or in word of mouth for things to really change.

1. Introduction        4
2. Background        5

1. Purpose        5
2. Aim and Objectives        5

1. Literature Review        6-7
2. Methodology        8

1. Approach        8
2. Philosophy        8
3. Strategy        8
4. Design        9
5. Sampling and Access        9

1. Data Collection        10
2. Analysis        10-11
3. Ethical Considerations        12

1. Limitations        12
2. Validity        12
3. Relevance v. Rigour        13

1. Research Impact and Value        14

1. Theory        14
2. Practice        14
3. Policy        14

1. References        15-16
2. Appendix        17-21

1. Research Timeline        17-21

1. Introduction

In a globalized world where our world is expanding in all areas, as international trade is growing day by day, and we are always unemployed, we will try to find out if people who had access to a in their lives or only at job interviews have already been discriminated against.

We will talk about the discrimination in a working environment, it’s means at work or during a job interview.

A lot of people think that discrimination is only against strangers, in the case for example in a job interview.

But what is the discrimination? Action to separate, to distinguish two or more beings or things from certain criteria or distinctive characters; distinction: To discriminate between the indispensable and the desirable.

That is the most popular definition of discrimination.

But in the working world, the discrimination is not only that, because we can talk about racial discrimination and sexist discrimination, it’s often against women.

Distinguish and treat differently (most often worse) someone or a group in relation to the rest of the community or in relation to another person: Sexism is discrimination based on sex.

2. Background

1. Purpose

The purpose that we want to achieve is to understand how and why in our generation is still discrimination in a working environment.

1. Aim and Objectives

We have as aim to ask people and know if they are concerned by discrimination,

Our objectives are to know if they were a victim of discrimination or if they believe that discrimination in work life does exist or no.

We want to know if people know about our world, and if they live those kinds of difficulties and discriminations, and maybe find what we can do to stop it and find areas of improvements.

3. Literature Review

This literature review helps me to clarify my subject and objectives by finding key figures on discrimination in a work environment, what are and could be the social and economic impacts, and what are the solutions that could they bring?

3.1 Key numbers

According to RespectMag.com in a 2017 article, 30: this is the percentage of companies singled out for their discrimination following the submission of applications during the test conducted by the Ministry of Labor.

10,000: the number of openly racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic platforms (websites, blogs) on the web according to RespectMag.com

Obese candidates are twice as likely to get an appointment

(Source: "The Obese: the incredible discriminated", Observatory of Discrimination)

3.2 Socio-economic impacts of discrimination in a work environment

According to a report by France Stratégie, reducing discrimination in the labor market would bring between 80 and 310 billion euros (2017)

54% of the defender's claim files in the area of discrimination concern employment after Guardian (2016)

Precariousness has worsened for all workers in the United Kingdom over the last seven years. It was 3.2 million in 2016, 11% more than in 2011, Guardian (2016)

3.3 Solutions against discrimination in employment

The testing method which consists of sending identical CVs by changing the name, targeting a dozen companies according to the European Union

The anonymous CV which consists in sending his resume by justifying according to his experiences, his qualities etc, like a classic CV except that we do not leave our name, first name, age and exact address after Monster Job (2017)

The skills tests "The cost would be lower, and especially the fact of passing tests to young people from the university would avoid any form of discrimination, says the specialist who wants to propose this measure to the government effect so the real skills of the candidates "

Explains Jean-François Amadieu at LCI (2018)

4. Methodology

1. Approach

To realize this report, we need to choose the approach that we will use.

we are going to use the deductive approach from the general to the specific case, because we are talking about discrimination in a work environment, which is the approach that is most appropriate in my opinion, because we are going to check by theories and hypotheses to then check with questions and actual cases that occurred for the people questioned.

We will refer to the website https://research-methodology.net/

1. Philosophy

We must choose a philosophy that corresponds to the inquiry we must conduct and the results we hear. We choose the method of pragmatism, because in this survey, we know that there is a lot a possibilities of answers, and we know that in a work environment people can live different actions of discrimination, there is no simple reality. We will refer to the website http://research-methodology.net/research-philosophy/pragmatism-research-philosophy/

1. Strategy

We must now choose our strategy for data collection. We chose to create a questionnaire with open and closed questions because they will give us answers both we can quantify and qualitative answers. Our philosophy remains pragmatism so we seek to have a mixed-method. For the strategy, we used the module BRS5 – Research strategies.