Are we really inclusive? A critical exploration of cultural attitudes to equality and diversity, focusing on international migrant workers and the impact on employee relations.

Content:
1. Introduction
2. Aims and objectives
3. Literature survey
4. Methodology
5. Scope and constraints
6. Timetable
7. Outline sections

Introduction
In my research I am planning to do a deep dive into cultural attitudes of migrant workers, who have immigrated to the United Kingdom and may be coming from a country where cultural attitudes to diversity and equality may be vastly different.

Aims and objectives
Diversity and inclusion is part of today’s genre and it is moving higher up the ladder on the corporate agenda, but also within our society (CIPD, 2017). Diversity is a fact and inclusivity is an action. We are actively inviting people who are different, but are they merely tolerating diversity and inclusion, or are we inhibiting full integration by the provisions of the Equality Act (2010)? The aim of my research is to explore the adaptation process and answer questions that I will devise from the literature review.

Literature review
I am planning to conduct my literature review by reading various academic literatures, online literatures, past papers and also draw some information about cultural attitudes from various Ted Talks, available online. I am planning on drawing questions that I am going to answer through my research and link this to academic theories.

Methodology
Research is going to be conducted using non structured interviews with migrant workers, who may be from countries with little or no diversity and inclusion agenda, like Nigeria and Jamaica for instance.

Scope and constraints
Constraints will be mainly getting honest and accurate answers from interviewees. With cultural attitudes being so strong and the diversity and equality agenda being so prevalent in the UK, interviewees might feel apprehensive to voice their true feelings and opinions. I am planning to overcome this by making it very explicit on the interview consent form, that all interviews are anonymised and by providing assurances that all interviews will be confidential.

Chapters
1) Executive Summary
2) Introduction
3) Questions to be answered in this research
4) Literature Review
5) Research Methodology
i) Research approach
ii) Sample selection
iii) Ethical considerations and limitations
iv) Result analysis
6) Results
7) Discussion
8) Conclusions
9) Recommendations
10) Personal Learning statement
11) References