Gender Pay Gap in the UK: An Investigation Report

The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working. Women are generally considered to be paid less than men. UK Gender Pay Gap Regulations came into force in April 2017, requiring organisations with 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap data each year. You work as a consultant for Newton Data Solution limited, a data analysis firm and you have been requested by the line manager to conduct a detailed investigation on the problem of gender pay gap in the UK for a local newspaper. Using the government-based data set provided, you will devise a report that provides insight on Gender pay gap in the UK.

from other selected information sources and to present this in a form appropriate for a specialist and not specialist audience. You have been given 72h to complete this task.

Your report should cover the following points

• A brief review of the literature on the topic
• Review the Data sets and its implications for strategic leadership
• Data Analysis and visualisation of the data set to provide insight using the appropriate statistical packages

On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate ethical and methodological considerations associated with applied secondary research, considering the implications for strategic leadership and organisational development.
• Evaluate, and discriminate between, sources of secondary data and information, justifying relevance to the task and context.
• Select, justify and apply appropriate data analysis tools.
• Devise and justify use of ethical, workable and creative solutions in the light of evidence.

Your grade will depend on the extent to which you meet these in the way relevant for this assessment. Please see the grading rubric on NILE for further details of the criteria against which you will be assessed.

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• Within one week of the original deadline – work will be marked and returned with full feedback, and awarded a maximum bare pass grade.
• More than one week from original deadline – grade achievable LG (L indicating late).