Equality Audit Report of Coca Cola Company: Policies, Implementation, and Outcomes

Introduction of the Organisation Profile

Carry out an Equality Audit on Coca Cola Company. Report structure ?Use 3 questions to help you with Equality Audit Report

1. WHAT? HOW? – presenting evidence from the company

2. WHY? – interpretation of the evidence based on existing knowledge

3. HOW? – how the evidence was collected and analysed 1. Introduction of the Organisation profile (Give a short analysis of your organisation with reference to Kirton and Greene’s typology). To include the following;

a. Industry

b. Number of employees

c. Employees profiles (gender, age, nationality, disability) – a ‘picture’ of employment structure

2. Equality and diversity in organisation (To draw upon and refer to the variety of examples of equality/diversity policies in the literature, using these to conduct an audit of the organisation’s policies in equality/diversity. This requires you to explain which policies the company has in place in terms of procedures, positive action policies, training, harassment policies, terms and conditions and so on. However, you must go beyond merely describing what it is in place, and critically discuss its actions, policies and so on in the light of the academic material).

a. Evidence of equality/inclusion or inequality/exclusion – E.g. is there evidence that some groups are discriminated?

b. Measures taken to provide equality and manage diversity – Diversity strategy (is diversity part of the mission and strategy) – Written policies and statements, practices, structures – Organisational culture

c. Implementation of the measures – Obstacles/difficulties in implementation; facilitation of implementation

d. Outcome of the measures – What are the effects of diversity efforts?

3. Assessment using Kirton and Greene typology (exhibit 8.3, p.214)

a. A broad approach to diversity (e.g. adopted in public statements)

b. Explain, why the company ‚fits’ a particular category, or ‚doesn’t fit’ any categories

c. About 3 pages 4. Methodology

a. How data was collected About 3 pages

b. Premium for primary data collection 5. Contribution and role of each group member a.

a. All sources must be referenced and listed in bibliography Sources must be from Literature, Textbook, Listed articles, For critical analysis, Organisation documents, Websites, press releases, published statistics and documents, Interviews and own observations, Premium for primary research 7. Appendices a. Organisational charts, documents etc.