Managing a Successful Business Project

This document provides insights on managing a successful business project. It covers topics such as aims and objectives, project management plan, work breakdown structure, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and more. The document is relevant for students studying business management.

Managing a Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1: Aims and objectives of the project...................................................................................1
P2: Project Management Plan which conduct different types of aspect................................3
P3: Prepare the work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart..................................................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................7
P4 Carry out small scale research by using Qualitative and Quantitative methods...............7
LO3................................................................................................................................................10
P5: Analysis of research and data.........................................................................................10
P6: Appropriate recommendations for data analysis............................................................16
LO4................................................................................................................................................17
P7: Reflect on the value of undertaking the research to meet stated objectives and own
learning and performance.....................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Equality is one of the must crucial thing within the business organisation which directly
helps to deliver the equal opportunity to each and every employees while working within the
company. Here, diversity is understood as variety of culture, religions etc. available within the
employees of company (Ackermann and Winston, 2019). In context of any business organisation,
equality and diversity plays the most crucial role because employees gets equal opportunity in it
and even they gets the chance to express their ides and views as per the religious and culture
through which goals and target can be accomplish easily. In addition, if any of the organisation
suffer from the problem of conflicts and disputes then in this situation equality and diversity can
play the huge role for solving it out. In this respective project, the chosen organisation is Crowne
Plaza Hotels & Resorts which is situated in London. Here, in this assignment the topics which are
going to be covered will be related with aims and objectives of the company, project plans.
Different important information will be collected in it which will include research methods, tools
and many more. After preparing the project, the main aim will be related about taking the better
decision for accomplishing the goals of an organisation.
Summary of the company : Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts is one of the multinational
hotel industry company which provide different types of services to their customers. The
headquarter of the company is in Denham, United Kingdom. It was founded in the year 1970.
there are more then 400 hotels of Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts in 52 countries (Crowne Plaza
Hotels & Resort, 2018).
LO 1
P1: Aims and objectives of the project
Project can be explained the way of planning and plotting for the purpose of achieving
the outcome in specific time period. Project are mainly prepared for the shorter period of time
which fix period of time, budget and members are decided who will play the crucial role in
accomplishing the goals of an organisation.
Project Management can be explained as the planning and organisation the available
resources of the company by implementing different process, skills and even knowledge which
helps to complete any of the task in specific time period.
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Title : To determine the strategies/initiatives which help in building diverse and inclusive
workplace.
Aim of the report : The main aim of the organisation is to identify the different strategies
through which an organisation can build diverse and inclusive workplace. A detail study on
Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts.
Objectives of the report
 To understand about the concept of equality and diversity.
 To analysis strategies for building diverse and inclusive workforce.
 To explore importance of divers workforce for Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts.
Questions : Some of the question are mentioned below:
 Explain about the concept of equality and diversity within the organisation.
 What are the strategies for building diverse and inclusive workforce.
 What are the importance of divers workforce for Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts.
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to Elisabeth Natter, 2019 diversity is explained as people having diverse
culture, background, religion, tradition and so on which make them unique from other while
comparing in a group. Organization is building diversity in the working premises in order so as to
gain competitive advantages in cut throat competitive world.
According to Zach Lazzari, 2019 equality is defined as different employees has varied
perception regarding equality. Equality means deserving candidate should be provided equal job
opportunity despite of any gender. By this right candidate is placed in the vacant post. This raises
overall productivity and profitability ratio of the firm which is a positive sign for the business in
intense competitive world.
According to Jenny Darmody, 2019 there are numerous issues faced by organization due
gender pay gap in the premises. By this skilled and potential employees turn out ratio raises
which directly create impact on the business day to day working.
According to Kim Elsesser, 2015 there are distinguish ways to deal with gender pay gap .
Firm can implement pay transparency, eliminate negotiation etc. are some of the ways by which
equal wages are paid to the candidate working or hired on the same post. By this the feeling of
discrimination among male and female can be eliminated and positive working environment can
be build.
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P2: Project Management Plan which conduct different types of aspect
Project Management plan can be explained as the concept which helps business
organisation to divide the project into difference stages. Some of the components which are
added in this process is initiation, planning, controlling, execution and monitoring. It is necessary
because it helps to predetermine about the outcome of the project (Roulstone and Williams,
2014). Whenever any of the project is being prepared then various aspects are considered due to
which better outcomes can be accomplished easily. Below, there is the detail explanation about
project plan for Crowne Plza Hotels & Resorts.
 Scope : The scope of this project is that it allows the develop the environment where
equal opportunities are being given to the employees where they can work in effective
manner. As divers environment will be there which will allow to get the ideas and views
of different employees. Also, there will be less chances that conflict will raise between
employees. In addition, company will get the chance to achieve their target on specific
time period.
 Organisational structure: Here, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts can easily adopt the
functional structure where workers will be categorised into different teams as per the
knowledge and skill available with them. While talking about other structure like pure
structure, in this project manager will take the charge of every single work which is being
conducted within the company (Phillips and et. al., 2016). And in matrix structure,
employees will required to inform about the work to different management head which
will consume unnecessary time.
 Time: While conducting the research for Hotel Crown plaza, it will be necessary for them
to understand that managing the time will be the most crucial part for accomplishing the
goals on time. Here, total time which will be required to complete the work on time will
be around 3 months because lots of work is required to be conducted such as collecting
data, managing all of the data in a systematic manner. Also, there will be the requirement
to understand that what are that information which is relevant and what are those which
will not be helpful.
 Resources: In this, Hotel like Crowne Plaza will required to have land, employees, HR,
fund etc. so that high possible can be made for the purpose of attaining the goals of an
organisation. Also, researcher will need to analyse about the resources available in the
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company such as expert teams, leadership skill and manner as they can guide that how
any of the work is needed to be done. While doing any of the research, it is necessary for
the researcher to use different resources so that accurate information can be collected for
attaining the desire outcome. Human resource will play the most significant role as they
will explain that what are the ways through which work can be completed. Materials will
be external resources which are needed to be used. Information about the organisation and
financial plan will also be one of the internal information’s that is needed to be analysed
by the researcher.
 Costs: In any of the research, cost plays the most significant role as it is the way through
which research can easily do analysis that what will the required sum to conduct the
research. Different techniques can be used in it such as Budgeting, Cash Flow Statement
and Cost Breakdown Statement. This can easily help to determine that what will be the
exact amount which is needed to be used for conducting research. In short, it will help the
researcher to find detail information about the organisation like Crowne Plaza Hotels &
Resorts. Below there is the estimation total cost which can be divided in this particular
manner.
Estimated cost:
Particulars Total funds needed to perform the activity
Expenses on Social media $ 1000
Miscellaneous expenditure $ 2000
Expenses on dividing the work into sub parts $ 1500
Total cost $ 4500
 Communication matrix: It is one of the most important aspects of the company which
will help to divided the role among the employees working within the team. Here,
researcher will get the opportunity to do communication by taking the help of voice calls,
video conferencing and many more. The collected information by the researcher will be
given to Hotel Crown Plaza where top level management will use it for the purpose of
attaining the goals on specific time period.
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 Risks : Whenever any of the research does the research they have to face number of
problem which falls under the category of risk. Researcher might face the technical risk in
which may create issues at the time of conducting research. External risk may also suffer
the researcher as their might be number of occasion in which respondent might not give
the relevant answer due to which sometimes research may not be effective (Kulkarni and
Gopakumar, 2014). Also, lack of fund and resources can be one of the risk.
 Quality : It is necessary that quality of the project should be retained by grouping the
important information which can help at the time of attaining the goals of an organisation.
There are number of control techniques which can be used for example Control Chart can
be used at the time of graphs in which it can be easily determined that how changes are
being according to the situation. Quality control chart provides the guidelines whether
process is meeting the specifications of project or not. It can be one of the way through
which goals and target can be accomplished easily. In addition, Gantt Chart can be one of
the option which can be used for the purpose of maintaining the quality of a project
because it will help the research to divide the work in systematic order.
P3: Prepare the work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart
Gantt Chart: In neck to neck competitive world this bar chart is used to explain project
schedule. Gantt Chart was discovered by Henry Gantt in the year 1910-1915. This great
personality is a American engineer and social scientist (Bryson, 2017). Gantt Chart also show the
dependency relationship among activities and existing schedule status. It helps in planning,
coordinating and tracking particular work in a report. There are certain disadvantages of Gantt
Chart which are explained as under:
 Regular updating is important in Gantt Chart.
 In some cases, Gantt Chart become extraordinary complex due to which staff members
are unable to come up effective results.
 It is useful when it is used in one sheet of paper because the image visibility is not clear.
 size of the bar does not highlight amount of work to be performed.
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Work Break Down structure: WBS is used in the project management as it aid to
simply the complex and difficult task into smaller components. By this it become easy to
complete them in the set deadline. Work break down structure aid in organizing team's work into
controllable area (Bell and Harrison, 2018). By using this set goals and objectives can be attained
in the set time frame which helps in gaining competitive advantages in cut throat competitive
world.
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LO 2
P4 Carry out small scale research by using Qualitative and Quantitative methods.
Research methodology is the use of specific procedures or techniques so as to identify,
select, process and analyse the information that is collected in relation to the research topic so
that appropriate results can be drawn. It is also helpful in doing comparison after collecting the
relevant data for the research due to which chances of understanding about the topic will
enhance automatically. Various approaches of research methodology are :
Qualitative approach : It is a scientific method used to gather non-numerical data so that
in-depth understanding of the topic can be done. Here, chances of collecting the accurate
information and data are high due to desire goals can be accomplished easily (Sang and Powell,
2013). In this research, researcher have considered number of respondents due to which
qualitative data can be collected easily. It is also important to understand for researcher that it is
one of the most lengthiest process of collecting the desire information. Also, researcher might
have to suffer from different types of problem while doing qualitative research. Some of the
methods which can be beneficial at the time of gathering qualitative information are explained
below:
Interviewing: In this method, researcher gets the option to ask number of related
questions with respondent where they get the chance to express there ideas, views and even
experience which is directly related with the company (Johnson, 2019). Here, researcher gets the
benefit that they can easily collect the relevant information about the company but it might
consume unnecessary time.
Ethnographic approach: For the purpose of collecting the information within this
particular approach, it will be important for researcher that they must try to do observation on the
society where they will spend there time on watching that what does they do on daily basis. The
main benefit of this types of approach is that researcher can easily find about the emotional as
well as practical approach of an individual (Haddud, McAllen and DeSouza, 2018).
Here, it will be important for researcher to use interviewing approach because it will give
the way to collect all of the relevant information. Even researcher will not have to observe and
pretend about the situation.
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Quantitative research: Here, researcher is required to use different graphs charts and
numerical data which helps to understand about the data in easiest form. While doing comparison
between quantitative and qualitative data it is found that qualitative research help to collect more
relevant data. Here, data are collected with the help of sampling method and even through
sampling surveys.
Questionnaire method: It is explained as the form of collecting the data with the help of
preparing relatable questions (Hillson and Murray-Webster, 2017). Here, researcher have the
question to change the pattern of question as per the requirement of questions.
Structured observations: In this approach, research collect the relevant information
without involving any of the participants directly but form of collecting information is totally
based on assumptions.
Here, researcher will use the questionnaire method for collecting the information because
it allows to collect the relevant information which enhances the chances of obtaining the better
result.
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions :
Q1) Do you have basic knowledge about the term equality & diversity within the
organisation?
a) Yes, I have the basic knowledge about it.
b) No, I don't have any knowledge about equality and diversity.
Q2) Is it important to have equality & diversity within the company?
a) Yes, it is crucial
b) No, equality and diversity doesn't affect the company.
Q3) What can be major problem that can arise if there is no equality and diversity at
workplace?
a) Disputes may occur
b) There will be no team work
c) Goals and targets will not be accomplish on time.
Q4) How can diversity impact upon the goals of a company.
a) Culture and religious might differ
b) there will be high resistance in the worker
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Q5) What can be impact on workers after introducing equality in company?
a) Positive
b) Negative
Q6) If company introduce the concept of equality and diversity within the company then
they can accomplish the goal or not.
a) Yes
b) No
Interview Questions
Qualitative/ Interview questions :
Q7) What can be the major advantage for Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts if they
introduces the concept of equality and diversity within the company?
Q8) What can be ways through which performance of employees can be enhanced just
after introducing the concept of equality and diversity?
Q9) How business organisation can introduce the concept of diversity and equality within
the organisation?
Q10) Recommend how the process of introducing the concept of equality and diversity can
be improved?
LO3
P5: Analysis of research and data
Q1) Do you have basic knowledge about the term equality & diversity
within the organisation?
Frequency
a) Yes, I have the basic knowledge about it. 12
b) No, I don't have any knowledge about equality and diversity. 8
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a) Yes, I have the basic knowledge about it.
b) No, I don't have any knowledge about equality and diversity.
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
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Frequency
Interpretation: On the basis of above graphical representation that 12 out of 20 people are
consider that they have basic knowledge about equity and diversity at workplace but
remaining other are not believe that they have appropriate knowledge about diversity and
equality at working place.
Q2) Is it important to have equality & diversity within the company? Frequency
a) Yes, it is crucial 9
b) No, equality and diversity doesn't affect the company. 11
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a) Yes, it is crucial
b) No, equality and diversity doesn't affect the company.
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Frequency
Interpretation: it can be interpreted that 9 out of 20 thinks that diversity and equality at working
environment is important but remaining 11 believes that is is not significant for the
company's environment.
Q3) What can be major problem that can arise if there is no equality
and diversity at workplace?
Frequency
a) Disputes may occur 9
b) There will be no team work 7
c) Goals and targets will not be accomplish on time. 4
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a) Disputes may occur
c) Goals and targets will not be accomplish on time.
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Frequency
Interpretation: It has been interpreted from the above graphical presentation that 9 out of 20
thinks that it creates disputes at workplace but 7 consider that it effects the team work but
remaining 4 believe that it creates obstacles in accomplishing the aims and goals of a
company.
Q4) How can diversity impact upon the goals of a company. Frequency
a) Culture and religious might differ 4
b) there will be high resistance in the worker 16
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a) Culture and religious might differ
b) there will be high resistance in the worker
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
4
16
Frequency
Interpretation : It can be analysed from the above graph that 4 answerer out of 20 thinks that
diversity impacts on the persons as they cultural and religion are differ from each other but
remaining thinks that there is high residency in work so it impacts on the company's
performance.
Q5) What can be impact on workers after introducing equality in
company?
Frequency
a) Positive 18
b) Negative 2
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a) Positive b) Negative
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
18
2
Frequency
Interpretation : On the basis of the graph it can be analysed that the employees are in favour of
equality as it will motivate them because all the employees will have equal and fair
opportunity to grow and develop while a few of them believes that it will affect the
employees productivity.
Q6) If company introduce the concept of equality and diversity within
the company then they can accomplish the goal or not.
Frequency
a) Yes 15
b) No 5
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a) Yes b) No
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16 15
5
Frequency
Interpretation : As per the responses of the employees working in the organisation it is
identified that it will become easy for the organisation to achieve their goals as with equality
all the employees will be motivated but some are not in favour of this.
Qualitative/ Interview questions:
Q7) What can be the major advantage for Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts if they introduce
the concept of equality and diversity within the company?
A. As per the responses of the employees it was identified that the applicability of the equality
and the diversity in the organisation will make their employees feel motivated and it will
further improve their performance.
Q8) What can be ways through which performance of employees can be enhanced just after
introducing the concept of equality and diversity?
A. As per the responses the performances can be improved by providing training to the
employees as per their roles and responsibility the performances can be improved. Also they
can be motivated by through various incentives.
Q9) How business organisation can introduce the concept of diversity and equality within
the organisation?
A. On the basis of the responses it was identified that the concept can be introduced by way of
offering equal pay as per the responsibilities, by conducting various seminars in which the
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employees will have opportunity to interact with each other. This will build understanding
among the employees.
P6: Appropriate recommendations for data analysis
It is can be easily understood from the above prepared report that equality and diversity
within company for employees can help to accomplish the goals of an organisation within the
specific time period (Kulik, 2014). Here, each and every employee will get the opportunity to
coordinate with each other due to which any of the doubts can be sorted out in short period of
time. While talking about the Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, it can be understood that company
must be able to satisfy their customers and it is only possible if company is allowing their
employees to attain the customers because they can get the idea that what are the basic needs of
their customers which is needed to be fulfilled. Also, it will reflect on enhancing the performance
of every individual.
Recommendations regarding improvement in its race, sexuality and gender related diversity :
 Here, company have the option to pay the equal amount of salary who are working on the
same post. It will allow to motivate employees and even this will remove the problem of
gender gap (Hewins-Maroney and Williams, 2013). Also, company can introduce those plans and policies which can help employees to ignore
about the race and gender. It will help to keep employees satisfied while working within
the company.
Recommendations regarding improvement in age, pregnancy and nationality-related diversity:
 In this company can give the increment to employee which must be based on their
knowledge and skills. By allowing the leaves for those females employees who are going through the period of
pregnancy (Aiyer, Panigrahi and Das, 2018).
Recommendations regarding improvement in disability, marriage and religion-related
diversity:
 Here, it is recommended that company must conduct the fair recruitment process which
those candidates should be selected who deserve the place in company (Hebl and Avery,
2012).
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 By maintaining the environment for employees where they can feel connected with the
organisation.
In short, it can be concluded that company like Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts can easily
adopt the concept of equality and diversity because it will give them the idea that how work is
needed to be done and how any of the employees should be treated so that they can perform
better for the company.
LO4
P7: Reflect on the value of undertaking the research to meet stated objectives and own learning
and performance.
The main objective of conducting this respective research has been accomplished. It was
one of the research where I got the opportunity to enhance my skills such as now I am capable of
writing the Literature Review on any of the specific topic (Henry and et. al., 2014). Even I came
to know the importance of managing the time because time management in any of the
organisation is very important because it helps to accomplish target on time. Also, there were lots
of problem which I had to facing while conducting the research. I faced some of the problems at
the time of conducting research such as it was one of the expenses process. There were some of
the respondents who were not willing to answer about the question which were being asked by
them. In addition, it was one of the time consuming process which doesn't allowed me to involve
in any of the external activities. Some of the ways through which skills can be improved are
listed below:
Competency How I am required to bring
improvement
What is the requirement of
further improvement
Research Skills Whenever there is the
requirement to bring changes
within the research skill, it is
necessary that I must go
through different articles,
journals, online collection of
authentic data and many more.
This types of improvement
will allow me to collect all of
the necessary information
which is required within
primary & secondary research.
Project planning In order to bring changes As, I had faced number of
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within this particular stage, it
will be important to
understand to take the help of
senior colleagues who is
expert in this particular field.
problem while conducting the
research, it will be necessary
for me to understand that bring
the improvement is essential.
It means similar form of
problem will not occur for me
if I will have to conduct same
form of work.
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CONCLUSION
From the above file, it can be concluded that it is necessary for the company to treat each
and every employees equally. It will allow them to perform in systematic manner for accomplish
the goals of an organisation. Various plans such as equal gender pay, providing necessary
training and trying to implement the policies where employees can show their participation in the
company through which the concept of diversity can introduced easily. Also, it will raise the level
of standard of employees as they will get the opportunities to prove themselves and even their
skills can be enhanced easily.
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APPENDIX I
Template for evidence collection to be attached with the report by the learner:
Project Logbook for the chosen organisation:
Name of the learner: Name of the Supervisor:
Project Title: Date:
Update of weekly research/ tasks achieved
(Account for a minimum of six weeks with dates)
 What have you completed?
 Did you fulfil Task requirements?
 Are you on track and within deadlines set?
 Did you need to make any changes to your
project management plan?
Comments
I have completed the given research on
the topic called “To determine the
strategies/initiatives which will help in
building diversity and equality at
workplace.”
Yes, all of the necessary requirements
have been completed in specific
manner.
Yes, I was on track and performed my
task within the given time.
No, there was no necessity to make any
of the changes.
Any risks and / or issues identified?
 Did you identify risks/issues with a lack of
skills required for undertaking research
tasks?
Yes, in number of stances I have
identified the different risk related with
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 Did you identify any additional risks/issues
that have an impact on the project
management plan?
this particular project.
Yes, as topic was typical where
researcher was needed to be done in
specific manner.
Problems encountered
 What barriers did you face?
 How did you overcome them?
Lack of fund and even reply from the
respondent which they gave was the
main barriers.
Here, I kept myself calm so that I can
deal with different people in decent
manner.
New Ideas and change of project direction
Execution of different communication
channels is one of the effective idea
which will help to complete the project
on time.
What Have I learnt about myself this week?
 How did I feel when I had to deal with
tasks/problems?
 Did I find it useful to complete the tasks?
At the time dealing with different I was
very anxious.
Yes It was useful to me to complete the
task as this has increased my
knowledge and skills.
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 How well have I performed? What did I
contribute?
 What can I improve on next week?
 How might this learning apply in the
future?
I had given my 100% while performing
the task and secondly I had
contributed by using my skills and
knowledge.
I must try to attain different seminar
which can help me in future period of
time.
Seminar which I will boost me up to
conduct future research.
Tasks planned for next week
 Which tasks are priority?
 Have you set aside sufficient time for
completion?
I think collection of data should be
kept in the priority.
Gantt Chart will help me to divide my
time through which my task can be
competed on time.
Project plan status to date (on, ahead, behind)
Supervisor comments to address
Signature of the Supervisor and date:
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APPENDIX II
Template for Performance Review to be attached with the report by the learner:
1. What was the Project supposed to accomplish?
The project is conducted to detail study about the topic “To determine the strategies/initiatives
which will help in building diversity and equality at workplace.”. A study on Crowne Plaza
Hotels & Resorts.
2. Did the project succeed in its aims/ how do you know? Specifically, please outline any
evaluation and assessment undertaken.
Yes, the main aim of the project was succeeded as I used various types of methods like
questionnaire and even sampling method to know that I have succeed the task.
3. What things do you think worked well and why? Evaluate all aspects of the project
(e.g initial inception, project activities and project outcomes) from a range of
perspectives.
As I am good in communication skills so I am capable of collecting all of the necessary
information. Also, it guided me in the evaluation of aim, methodologies and many more through
which research was conducted successfully.
4. What problems emerged during the project and how were they tackled? Was there
timely identification of issues and resolution during the project process?
The main problem which I faced during the research is reply which were being given by
respondent and even time was also one of the main issues. To deal with respondent I used ethical
consideration and in second situation I prepared Gantt Chart.
5. What did you learn from undertaking the project?
Now I have the knowledge about the equality and diversity within the premisses of office.
6. How would you rate your performance as a management consultant leading the
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project?
Here, I will rate myself 8/10.
7. What strengths and weakness of your performance did you identify?
I found that I have better form of communication skills and the major weakness was of
managing the time.
8. How will this inform and support your continuous professional development?
Communication skill inform and support me in my continuous professional development
by resolving different issues and providing information of previous study.
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