Determine the Strategies and Initiatives to ensure a Diverse Workforce

Managing a Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
Research Title: “Determine the Strategies and Initiatives to ensure a Diverse Workforce. A case
study on Accor Hotels”....................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Aim and objectives for the project........................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2
Equality........................................................................................................................................2
Diversity......................................................................................................................................2
P2. Project management plan......................................................................................................2
P3. Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart...........................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P4. Research methodology to achieve project aims and objective..............................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5. Analysis and presentation of findings...................................................................................9
P6. Recommendations...............................................................................................................17
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................17
P7. Reflection............................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
APPENDIX 1.................................................................................................................................20
APPENDIX II................................................................................................................................22
Template for Performance Review to be attached with the report by the learner:........................22

Research Title: “Determine the Strategies and Initiatives to ensure a Diverse
Workforce. A case study on Accor Hotels”
INTRODUCTION
Diversity and equality both are considered as the pillar for the successful company e as it is
useful in allowing the workers to show their potential efforts towards the attainment of goals of
organisation. Equality defines offering equal treatment and opportunity to subordinates in
relation by their career so that they can get probable possibility to show their competencies.
Meanwhile diversity defines maintain a labour force in which folks fit in to various countries
faith and educational backdrop all jointly (Polonsky and Waller, 2018). In order to perform this
research Accor hotel is considered which is a French multinational hospitality company that
owns and manage its franchise. It is a solitary main hospitality corporation in Europe that relies
on the sixth largest position. This report put emphasis on the aims and goals of enquiry while
undertaking the diversity and equality considering the scheme plan, Gantt diagram and WBS
arrangement. It also considered methodology for learn along with in order analysis while
showing knowledge all through the revision.
TASK 1
P1. Aim and objectives for the project
Research aim
The main aim behind conducting this research project is, “To evaluate the importance of
equality and diversity together with determination of strategies and initiatives that ensures
creation and proper management of a diverse and inclusive workforce”.
Research objectives
The major objectives of this investigate organised on Accor Hotels are as follow:
 To study the concept of equality and diversity.
 To determine the possible advantages those are lead by equality and diversity in
achieving higher success and productivity for an organisation.
 To evaluate the variety of strategy and initiative that ensures creation and proper
management of a varied and comprehensive labour force in Accor Hotels.
Research questions
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 What implication are you having about the concept of equality and diversity?
 What are the possible advantages those are lead by equality and diversity in achieving
higher success and productivity for an organisation?
 What are the variety of strategy and initiative that ensures creation and proper
management of a miscellaneous and comprehensive personnel in Accor Hotels?
LITERATURE REVIEW
Literature review considered deep analysis of information and data that is already available
by the publisher and their resources in which the data offered by various authors are being
critically reviewed and then presented for the evaluation of the nature of study regarding the
further investigation (Nicholas and Steyn, 2017).
Equality
According to Fink, (2016), equality is all about making sure that every individual has equal
and prominent opportunities to make and they represent their talent in front of others. In relation
with this it also putting faces on that no one should have poorer life chances due to the way they
were born and carries any kind of flaws in them. Equality also considers various factors within
the certain group of people with protected characteristics like disability sexual orientation gender
race and so on that have experienced on the basis of discrimination.
Diversity
According to Young, (2016), diversity encompasses to prominent factors that are receiving
and respect which depicts the sympathetic of every person in exclusive and recognize manner for
the individual differences. It is the exploration of various differences in positive and safe
surroundings and also about considerate of each other and stirring further than the easy
acceptance to celebrate the prominent size of variety restricted within every entity.
P2. Project management plan
Project plan is considered as the return document that is used by the organisation in order
to facilitate the prominent details for the performing of various activities that are concerned with
project. This plan consider various activities like designing implementing beginning executing
and controlling that are concerned with the project (Halibozek and Kovacich, 2017). The project
management plan is useful regarding the investigation about the various aspects that are
considered for the effectual preparation and attain company’s objectives within the stipulated
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period of time. It considers cost resource quality scope time risk communication and many more
that are discussed below:
Cost: it is concerned with the opinion of prominent charge that are developed on the
dissimilar investigation activities considering investment employees unprocessed stuff
equipment’s and many more (Barker and Zupick, 2017). The investigate price is around by the
suitable evaluation of the present cost that is existed in the marketplace and previous rudiments
in bid to develop budget that is shown below:
Budget Approximation:
Particulars Amount
Endorsement payment £60
Cost incur in skill £140
Other payment £70
Total Cost £270
Quality: It considered the preparation factor regarding the investigation excellence that is
fully depend on the dependability and genuineness of data. To develop and maintain the faithful
data by using various methods like qualitative and quantitative in research.
Time: This concept is concerned with the time period that is necessary to achieve the
research objectives. It is needed in order to conduct the investigate actions inside the stipulated
period of time that is depends on the researcher and its team Associates (Artto, Ahola and
Vartiainen, 2016). In order to complete the prominent task it required around 2 months time
duration.
Risk: This element depicts that while organizing research activities various problems are
arises that are faced by researcher and the project manager in order to adopt prominent changes
according to the research information (Taherdoost and Keshavarzsaleh, 2018).
Communication: Prominent communication networks are required in order to make sure
the flow of information is freely with the help of using formal and informal methods of
communication channels in bid to organize research activities.
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Resource: It is undertaken as the physical financial and technological resource that are
useful for the purpose of organizing research activities that is required in sort to attain the
investigate aims and tagets (Lientz and Rea, 2016).
Scope: It is considered as the prominent aspect that is needed to develop the ascertain
skills and knowledge of the investigators and facilitates wide scope for their future opportunities.
In terms of this the investigator gets suitable achievement in expectations as they have full
information towards utilize of capital and method of investigate and information compilation
(Buttrick, 2018).
P3. Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
There are various Tools and technique that are utilized by the researcher to discern
regarding the completion of project within the particular period of occasion. In this investigation
story the researcher use WBS and Gantt chart in classify to inclusive the investigate action that is
careful as under:
Gantt chart: It is termed as the time management technique that is useful for the
graphical representation of the prominent activities that should be performed throughout the
investigation (Joslin and Müller, 2016). It depends the combination of activities that are
performed in sequent way along with the time considered by them that supports the guidance and
direct the member in prominent manner towards the attainment of goals and objectives.
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