Determining the impact of Equality and diversity on workplace profitability and productivity. A study on Sainsbury's

MANAGING SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Project aim and objective on given scenario.....................................................................3
P2 Project management plan that covers cost, scope, quality and resources.........................4
P3 Draw work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to provide time-frames........................5
LO 2 ................................................................................................................................................9
P4 Small scale research with use of qualitative and quantitative research methods..............9
LO 3 ..............................................................................................................................................12
P5 Analyse research data with use of appropriate tools and techniques..............................12
P6 Recommendation on the basis of result of research data................................................20
LO 4 ..............................................................................................................................................21
P7 Reflection on the value of undertaking the research.......................................................21
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity can be termed out as “Equal opportunities”. This is defined as
legal obligation that aids to protect against the discrimination (Bowl, 2018). In enterprises, it is
crucial to ensure that individuals are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of
person's sex, gender, sexual orientation, belief and race etc. Therefore, equity is treating
everyone in fairly and equitable manner at workplace. Diversity can be defined as king account
of differences between people and group of individual and to place a positive value on those
differences.
The present report is based on to determine the impact of equality and diversity on
profitability and profitability to enterprise. Henceforth, the chosen enterprise is as Sainsbury's,
This is second largest retail chain of supermarket in United Kingdom and deals in grocery
services.
Therefore, report will lay emphasise on activities as to outline the aims and objective on
the basis of given topic. Research methods will be selected on the basis of suitability of research
report. Furthermore, study will conduct data analysis with use of primary approach to gather first
hand information. Lastly, recommendation will be given to promote equality and diversity in
workplace.
LO 1
LO 1 will provide project aim and objectives for this project. It will also provide a
management plan along with work breakdown structure.
Title : Determining the impact of Equality and diversity on workplace profitability and
productivity. A study on Sainsbury's.
P1 Project aim and objective on given scenario.
Equality opportunity defined as each individual in enterprise must have equal chance to
take up opportunities. In UK, firms are taking initiatives to follow the practices that aids to
eliminate discrimination and offer fair treatment to all individuals. On the other and, diversity
means giving each individual chance to accomplish their potential, free from prejudice and
discrimination (Dennissen, Benschop, and van den Brink, 2019). This both are crucial term as
this aids to maximise the organisations profitability and productivity. With help of providing the

effective training facilities can be a powerful technique to promote diversity and equality in the
workplace.
The main aim of equality and diversity is to ensure that everyone within the enterprise
has access the same opportunities and fair treatment. Thus, one of the main advancement of
diversity within the workplace is to promote innovation. On the other hand, equality in the
enterprise assists to improves the brand reputation. Additionally, this can be stated that more
diversified workforce has wider pool of experience that is very effective in terms to tackling
issues and create opportunities.
Thus, inclusive learning is also one of the beneficial aspect that can helps to promote
equality and diversity at workplace. Henceforth, the enterprise must have goal to develop
inclusive programme that aids to bring out the people together with help of different experience
and backgrounds (Potvin and Heap, 2018). Moreover, aims and objectives will be given on the
basis of topic of research as:-
Aim-
To analyse role of equality and diversity strategies on organisation productivity. A study
on Sainsbury's.
Objectives
 To identify role of equality and diversity in organisation.
 To analyse current diversity strategies of Sainsbury’s
 To recommend how diversity strategies can be maintained for long term by Sainsbury's
P2 Project management plan that covers cost, scope, quality and resources.
Project is known as the sequential tasks which must be accomplished in accordance with
the well defined structure and procedure to achieve desired outcomes. Project management plan
is defined as document that helps to define each phase of project. However, it is inclusive of
components as initiation, planning, executing, controlling and monitoring. PMP is termed out as
formal and approved document that aids to manage the project implementation to accomplish
desired goals. Henceforth, this defined in below manner as are-
Project scope- This is defined as initial plan that is inclusive of determining and documenting
the list towards goals, task, deliverables and deadlines to project activities. This is aids to
accomplish the project and defines work that must be done to deliver the project. Thus, present

aim of report is to determine impact of Equality and diversity on workplace profitability and
productivity.
Cost- It is termed out as cost that incurred to carry out the research report successfully. This can
be measured out by the research staff to estimate the total cost relate with research report. It will
be done by project manager and with help of proper execution of research report the total cost to
research report must be estimated. Henceforth, the total cost to research report will be estimated
as £5000.
Activity Cost
Staff salary and wages £1500
Procurement £1250
Other cost £500
Equipment’s £1750
Total £5000
Resources- To carry out the research report successfully, this is crucial to identify the total
allocate resources to project. Therefore, essential resources to research report aids to attend the
research objectives effectively. Henceforth, project manager, project assessment team all are
crucial member that aids to carry out entire research report successfully. In this project human
resources, information resources are used. The information resources are obtained from various
textbooks, journals and articles while the employees of organisation are considered as human
resources.
Quality- The main purpose of research is to inform action and this also aids to contribute
towards developing knowledge in field or study. In order to make research report systematically,
the project manager needs to focus on three key points as quality management concepts as
prevention over inspection, customer’s satisfaction and continual improvement.
Communication- The all members to research report must have effective communication with
one another. Thus, communication is defined as crucial components that aids to carry out
research report successfully. By improving communication between all members the main aim of
research can be gathered. Additionally, the reliability in research report can be gathered with use
of making proper communication between members.

Communication Purpose Medium Frequency Audience
Research proposal To develop
aims and
objectives
E mail Once Project team
Project team
meetings
Review status
of project
Meeting Weekly Project team
Risk- This is process that defines as to identifying, analysing and responding to risk that assist
the project remain on track and meet out the goals. Thus, risk needs to be identified at the early
stage as this helps to accomplish the aim and objective of research report. Therefore, the rise in
cost and not accomplishment of the task on the due deadline can be huge risk to project.
Risk analysis
Very likely Lack of HR Delay in project
Likely Rise in cost Increase in cost
Unlikely Lack of resources
Medium High
Time- The main element of project management plan is to assign deadline to each task and to
accomplish the research aims on given time period. Henceforth, excellent time management in
project requires the proper planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling of all project
activities within proper deadline to accomplish desired research results.
P3 Draw work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to provide time-frames.
Gantt chart is defined as serial of horizontal lines that displays the work done and
production accomplished in certain period of time. Thus, it is effective in overall timeline of
project and expected completion date of project. Thus, its defined in following manner as are-
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
1 Beginning phase
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