Managing A Successful Business Project.

Managing A Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Aim and objectives................................................................................................................1
Concept of equality and diversity at workplace..........................................................................2
Influence of gender pay gap on Sainsbury's workforce productivity..........................................2
Techniques through which gender pay gap can be resolved.......................................................2
P2 Project Management Plan......................................................................................................3
P3 WBS and Gantt chart ...........................................................................................................4
P4 Carry out small-scale research applying primary and secondary methods appropriate for
meeting project aims and objectives...........................................................................................6
PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
P5 Data Interpretation.................................................................................................................7
LO4................................................................................................................................................13
P6 Recommendations................................................................................................................13
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity states equal opportunities to every individual without
discriminating them to the bases of disability, religion, race, sexual orientation, belief, person's
sex or age. In simple terms equality is defined as ensuring equal opportunities for everybody and
does not treat any individual because of their characteristics. While on the other hand, diversity
is termed as making individuals of different background and geographical regions to work in a
workplace structure and place positive value among them (Hassandoust and Díaz Andrade,
2020). It is essential for an organisation to create an inclusive work place structure of all the
employees in order to effectively promote equality and diversity.
Present report has been made on Sainsbury's. This organisation was established in the
1869 and perform their business activities in retailing sector. Is a large scale company and offer
their services in many locations with number of employees. This generates need for organisation
to positively embrace equality and diversity policies and principles in company premises. In this
report formative discussions has been conducted on the manner in which company can
effectively respond towards current issues of gender pay gap of equality and diversity at
workplace. For this, aims and objectives has been formulate along with project management
plan. Lastly, recommendations and reflections has also been included in this report.
LO1
P1 Aim and objectives
Research Aim: “ To evaluate the influence of Gender pay gap on employees performance in
organisational workplace structure”. A case study of Sainsbury's.
Research Objectives:
 To identify the concept of equality and diversity at workplace.
 To evaluate the influence of gender pay gap on Sainsbury's workforce productivity. To explore various techniques through which gender pay gap can be resolved.
Research Questions:
 What do you mean by concept of equality and diversity at workplace?
 What is the influence of gender pay gap on Sainsbury's workforce productivity?
 What are the techniques through which gender pay gap can be resolved?
Literature Review
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Concept of equality and diversity at workplace
As per the view point of Elia, Margherita and Secundo, 2020, equality and diversity is
defined as a formative concept in which equal opportunities to every individual is being offered
irrespective of their sex, religion, race, age or any other characteristics. Implementation of this
concept in organisational workplace structure allows entity to provide equal and positive
working environment to employees (Muhsin, 2020). This will not only enhance productivity,
performance and satisfaction level of employees but also facilitate company to ensure long term
sustainable growth.
Influence of gender pay gap on Sainsbury's workforce productivity
According to the perception of Einhorn, Meredith and Marnewick, 2020, Gender pay gap
is a major issue which directly affect performance of employees that further lead towards
decease in overall productivity of organisation. Gender pay gap mainly define as a certain
difference between remuneration or wage of male and female workers those who are operating
their business operations on same position (Michalak and Rysavy, 2020). If an organisation offer
comparatively less salary to women employees than male worker on same role, it will affect
workplace environment, develops negativity among workers, affects organisation brand image
on external market and reduce entity capability of profit generation.
Techniques through which gender pay gap can be resolved
According to the perception of Sońta-Drączkowska and Mrożewski, 2020, gender pay
gap issue is having adverse impact on both company and employees. As due to less pay
compared to men, women employees feel demotivated and less satisfied. It also decreases their
commitment and loyalty towards entity which automatically decreases overall profitability of
organisation (Trewin, 2020). Thus, it is essential for an entity to effectively resolve this issue.
For this, organisation by undertaking use of transparency in company workplace structure along
with legal rules and regulations can assure equal treatment to employees of all gender. With the
assistance of this entity can assure higher growth, profitability, long term sustainability and
development of both employees and company.
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P2 Project Management Plan
Project management plan is a formal document that mainly outlines project aim,
objectives, goals, scope, deliverables, budget and timeline. With an effective project
management plan proper track on project activities is assured through which accomplishment of
project objectives is done in efficient manner (Edwards, Vaz Serra and Edwards, 2020). There
are some certain form of elements that are included in project management is elaborated below:
Cost :-
This factor is an approximate amount that are going to be occurred in completion of
project. In order to accomplish present research project there is a requirement of £60,000.
Scope :-
It include all the essential elements of project such as ultimate costs, project functions,
features, tasks, deadlines and deliverables (Fasna and Gunatilake, 2020). These factors are
crucial for project manager to accomplish present project requirement with great effectiveness.
Quality :-
Quality is an essential aspect that are required to be consider by project manager. In
context with present research, project manager assure that they inform all the stake-holders of
project about all the necessary information in order to maintain project quality.
Communication :-
This is an important element through which project objectives get fulfilled with more
efficiency. It has been evaluated that in order to fulfil present research on Sainsbury's researcher
will take advantage of social media, telephone and advertisements to assure regular
communication.
Risk:
It is an essential factor that are required to be undertaken by researcher, in relation with
present research, researcher is required to identify different sources of funds and information
from authenticated sources in order to decrease risk impact upon research outcomes.
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P3 WBS and Gantt chart
Work Break down structure:
Work break down structure is defined as a deliverable-oriented breakdown that allows
researcher to divide research in small parts. With the help of this, present research can be
fulfilled in manageable manner in given time period.
Gantt chart:
Gantt chart is basically termed as visual view with the help of which project can be
scheduled in efficient manner (Moschko, Blazevic and Piller, 2020). This bar chart will facilitate
present research researcher to effectively undertake team communication, resource planning in
feasible manner.
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