Managing a Successful Business Project

Running head: MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PROJECT
Managing a Successful Business Project
Topic: How have companies responded to current issues of equality and diversity in the
workplace?
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Step 1 – Project planning...........................................................................................................2
1. Project management plan...................................................................................................2
Project objectives...............................................................................................................3
Project scope......................................................................................................................4
Project Activities................................................................................................................4
The milestones or major events or phases..........................................................................5
Activities to be carried out.................................................................................................5
Initiation.............................................................................................................................5
Planning and execution of the project................................................................................6
Gantt chart and WBS.........................................................................................................7
Step 2 – Conduct primary and secondary research....................................................................8
1. A questionnaire/ or interview questions with employees within the organisation.............9
2. Research of two other organisations to analyse their wellbeing initiatives.....................10
3. Value and benefits of addressing wellbeing in terms of improving employee retention.11
4. Good practice to build and supporting the business case.................................................12
Step 3 – Present Findings.........................................................................................................12
1. Analysis of the findings...................................................................................................12
2. The business case justifying recommendations for implementing wellbeing initiatives. 13
Step 4 – Reflective Practice.....................................................................................................14
1. Performance review with your line manager to critically reflect upon the project plan..14
References................................................................................................................................16

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Step 1 – Project planning
1. Project management plan
Assignment Brief
A diverse and inclusive employee culture within an organisation results to equity and
diversity in workplace regardless of the business industry of the size of the business.
Irrespective of the work that an employee has to perform as their day to day activities within
an organisation, equality and diversity and sure that every person within the organisation is
treated as equal and has the same access and same opportunities within the organisation
without being discriminated about any attributes that they own (Sarvaiya and Eweje 2016).
An organisation can include diversity within itself when different people coming from
various backgrounds and cultures are placed under the same organisation due to their skills
aligning to the requirement of the organisation. In the same way the people coming from
different backgrounds, skills, knowledge, experience and other differences ensure a
productive ineffective workforce for the achievement of the unified goal for the organisation
when equality and Diversity within the workplace is maintained. Both these factors are
important for the working of an employee within the organisation, because it has been proven
previously that discrimination and being biased for any employee within the organisation can
hamper the growth of the business and productivity (Haynes 2017). Every business must
consider some legal policies and procedures to be included within the organisation for
effectively promoting diversity and equality for managing the employees within an
organisation to be in an amicable cultural development for employee resulting to the
improvement of productivity, competitiveness and opportunity for the entire organisation.
This particular business process would respond on the current issues of equality and diversity
in the workplace that is generated by gender pay gap, sexual harassment and gender divide in
leadership.

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Project objectives
The particular objective of this project is to make sure that the management of a
project for or influencing a small scale research within the organisation. The primary aim of
the organisation with the inclusion of this particular project is the inclusion of a successful
business project that would provide additional support for retorting to the issues of equality
and diversity within the environment of the workplace (Lindblom 2017). The issues would be
defined as either gender pay gap, sexual harassment or gender divide in leadership and so on.
The project would include the definition of its scope that would make the project team
members understand why the project is been conducted and what benefits it would add to the
retention of employees to the organisation and further improvement of the employee and
what culture. It would also include the activities within the project, the main milestone of the
major event or phrases for the project, the activities that need to be carried out during the
project phases, a schedule and work breakdown structure for the project, the conduction of a
primary and secondary research, presenting of the findings and with a reflective presented on
the project plan.
Therefore, the project objectives would be listed as follows:
 To create a project scope
 To list the project activities
 To prepare a mines told for the major events within the project
 To identify the activities to be carried out throughout all the project phases.
 To understand the schedule and work breakdown for the project
 To create a primary and secondary research with the help of the employees
within the organisation
 To prepare a business case
 Two list and analyse the findings
 To reflect upon the project plan