Types of Strategies and Initiatives for Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

This report explores the types of strategies and initiatives that companies put in place to build a diverse and inclusive workforce. It includes a case study on Morrison's and covers research questions, literature review, project management plan, Gantt chart, work-break down structure, and small scale research using different methods. The findings and data are presented using appropriate tools and techniques.

Unit-6 Managing a Successful Business
Project

Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Formulate of project aim and objective.............................................................................3
P2 Formulation of project management plan.........................................................................5
P3 Gantt chart and work-break down structure......................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Small scale research by using different research methods................................................8
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and technique..................................11
P6 Recommendation.............................................................................................................17
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................18
P7 Reflection on the value of undertaking that make projects to meet with objectives.......18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21

TOPIC
“To determine the types of Strategies and Initiatives companies put in place to build a
diverse and inclusive workforce”. A case study on Morrison’s.
INTRODUCTION
Diverse and inclusive workforce refers to the individuals who are performing their work
in multi-national organisation. There are various practices such as similar culture, managing
workforce etc. are required by organisation to manage diverse workforce in organisational
operations and functions. This reflects to the tendency of a business for recruiting individuals on
the basis of skills, culture, region and background. It reflects the behaviour of employees towards
organisation that attract more number of individuals to engage expert and professional workforce
(Brimhall and Mor Barak, 2018). This report is composed from point view of Morrison’s that is
one of the largest supermarket organisation established in UK and it’s headquarter situated in
Bradford, England. In the present scenario, thousand numbers of employees are engaged in
operations that belong to different backgrounds. Moreover, report highlights on project
management plan and the aspects of Gantt chart as well as WBS to complete organisational
activities properly. In the last, small scale research is also conducted for understanding aspect of
business.
TASK 1
P1) Formulate of project aim and objective
The diverse and inclusive workforce reflects on positive approach which is used by
organisation to make emphasis on working culture and ability of business. The diverse
environment generates a lot of motivation among the employee through which organisation
develop validate improvisation that favour the business for completing all work in appropriate
manner (Clancy, 2019). This also helps organisation to build high enthusiasm and morale of
employees that reflects performance of individuals for adding more value in organisation.

Aim: “To determine the types of Strategies and Initiatives companies put in place to build
a diverse and inclusive workforce”. A case study on Morrison’s.
Objective
 To obtain all essential information with diverse and inclusive workforce.
 To implement right strategies and initiatives that is taken by organisation for promoting
inclusive and diverse workplace.
 To analyse all benefits related with diverse and inclusive workforce.
Research question
 What do you mean by diverse and inclusive workforce?
 Different strategies that are used by organisation for generating diverse and inclusive
workforce?
 Challenges that are faced to implement diverse and inclusive workforce?
Literature review
Meaning of diverse and inclusive workforce
From the perspective of Sharon Florentine, 2019 diverse and inclusive must manage
innovative results that make better results for driving better option that is used to ensure
strategies which is generating goodwill for organisation to accept diverse and talent workforce in
company. There are various problems identified by management to in making challenging areas
that regards rewarding to make better results for delivering better value that make longer results
(Davies and et. al., 2019). Along with there are points and inclusive deliver a sense of belongings
for employees by which all task are completed in proper manner. It helps to make better best
practices under areas that is making better results for ensuring long term results.
Different strategies that are used by organisation for induce diverse and inclusive workforce
With the point view of Katle Reynolds. 2017 the promotion is making and better results
with is used in making most suitable way for fostering global nature as per company. This is also
used by management capability of business. It helps to make better understanding of different
customers, clines, colleagues and employees across the world. This also organisation more
interesting that enrich personality for each individual that is linked with business. It is also
boosting area for organisation to make individuals better areas. This also activities that seek as
per perspective and ideas within business that helps as per present area to create deliver and
results in making areas that leads company to enhance positive culture in the organisation.

Advantage of diverse and inclusive workforce?
According to viewpoint of Brek Edge, 2018 employees are performing various task that
leads management for flourish of positive environment. It is used to make diverse and inclusive
workforce. There are different various benefits gained by management that is leading
management to obtain better position in market (de Aquino and Robertson, 2018)x. With this
organisation also consider operations are generating those areas under which task and operations
are able to make better results for obtaining better results that make longer results to produce
productive areas in which inclusive behaviour of individuals is included for making innovative
results.
P2) Formulation of project management plan
The project management plan refers to a temporary and one time endeavour that conduct
by organisation to introduce and establish new product and service. This bring efficiency input
for business among employees that add more value to collect better efforts for employees. It also
include different set of activities which is used for accomplishing all objectives in systematic
manner. Project management plan for this project is mention as follow:
 Cost- This includes certain amount of cost that is related with completion of project.
This also works as a profitable aspect for researcher that allocates and assigned specific
amount for completion of particular activity in order to manage project within decided
budget. Moreover, it also work as a positive point to manage expenses of project such as
travelling, print of report etc.
 Time- It refers to the adequate or decided time limit that is required for accomplish of
overall task in a more efficient way. This is also used for making sufficient results in
minimum time by which more reliability is induced in business. It also work as a
positive point that generates results by completing each activity on time. Time period
for completion of this project is seven weeks.
 Scope- This reflects to the outcomes which is achieved by investigator for achieving
better results that integrated aspects related with time, cost, resources, features etc. for
generating basic utilisation of sources (Fogarty and Zheng, 2018). It is also attained by
individuals who are engaged in research to make effective input that help them in future
to manage diverse and inclusive workforce.

 Quality- This refers to the achievable aspect in research project that is utilised by
investigator to complete the research in an accurate manner. Moreover, this research is
completed through collecting efforts of all individuals that collects relative information
for research in order to attain meaningful information.
 Communication- It is defined as a better source by which all information is collected
and transferred from one individual to another. From point of researcher e-mail, phone
calls, text message and information technology is used to interact with each other and as
well as respondents for obtaining right and relevant information (Gordon, 2018). This
results better input are gained that manage positive point for researcher and generates
meaningful conclusion.
 Risk- The risk form is related with success it refers by understanding risk aspects that
are related with research project also impacts on the profitability and ability to gain
desired outcomes. This also results better risk related with project is included for cover
of risk aspect that is used in making and achieving opportunities to make a research
project more success.
 Resources- With the use of different sources that are required for complete of research
project in an efficient manner are arranged in proper way. It is also used in making
effective execution to make relevant inputs together for making usable output which
support researcher for analysing feasibility in the business.
P3) Gantt chart and work-break down structure
Gantt chart- This refers to an effective chart which reflects overall time that is taken for
understanding each and every activity. Moreover, Gantt chart is used for calculating overall time
that is required for completion of activity. It is presented in the form of bar graph through which
appropriate time of each single action is shown with more clarity that is used by researcher for
completion of all action properly.

Work break down structure- This refer and reflects deliverable-oriented hierarchical
decomposition of project which is executed for completion of project. Work break down
structure is used in making better deliverables that is used to accomplish all objectives of project
in an organised and satisfactory manner. It also organise scope for overall project as well as
proess for subdividing the projects into more manageable modules.
TASK 2
P4) Small scale research by using different research methods
Research is a scientific research of the exclusive examine material which might be used to
accomplish the primary requirement of mission and it's miles used to attain the better result with
a purpose to establish the statistics and figures to make the new end (Ling and Robinson, 2018).
It is performed through the researcher to adopt the creative findings and to enhance the know-
how of about the precise aspect. There are sorts of research that is number one and new with help
of primary research and secondary wherein the end result is already calculated. This might be
shaped as like qualitative and the quantitative for completion of research with outcome of
meaningful results.
Quantitative method- The purpose of this is to explain the general situation and benefit
the beneficiary potentialities and it is the method that is more broadly speaking inductive and

used to formulate the hypothesis. It is a textual content based method in which the revel in
information could be regarded and it's far inside the shape of tabular information, mathematical
system and so forth (O’Donovan, 2018). There may be no statistical test can be contained that is
unstructured or semi established. The optimised result could be taken by means of undertaking
the questionnaire and it's going to ask to understand there results.
Advantages
 This is used in capturing changing attitudes for a target group of individuals. It results
research is made for a specific project.
 It also results that researcher is not bound to work with quantitative methods that is used
to explain information in reveal manner.
Dis-advantages
 The selection of sample size is a complex task for researcher to decide and it generate
complexity for understand average response.
 Sometimes at time of formulating longer results bias results are generated which create
complexity for organisation.
Qualitative method- It is a research this is connected within the statements and it is the in
the main deductive process wherein the belief will be developed on the idea of pre special
concepts. In the statistical tools may be used to measure the analysis that is largely depend on the
size tool (Panicker and et. al., 2018).
Advantages
 It is used by management for producing results in a detailed manner.
 With qualitative methods researcher is able for understanding overall aspect of
respondents in a detailed manner.
Dis-advantages
 Results which are generated through this research leads to generate diplomatic results
which are not useful.
 Along with this it is also used in making results that perform challenges for organisation.
Primary Researcher- It is the records that is accrued for the first actual time and it's miles by
using the researcher to get the validate enquiry of some distinctive subject matter. In this the
information can be amassed inside the shape of particular questions and presents personal
statistics because it takes quite a few time as nicely.

Secondary resources- It is the information that is accumulated from the researcher from the
already posted facts that might be as from the journals, newspaper, monetary statements, articles,
books and lots of other as well (Rao and Roberts, 2018). It helps to get showed that studies could
be carried out in excellent way.
Sampling- This is a method which is used in managing better results that generates for making
better observations. It results all task are completed in managing research through which persons
are selected for obtaining average results.
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Is your workplace has of diverse choice of people?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Did your business authorize all the employees to venerate holidays properly?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Is your workplace has the miscellaneous and completeness?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) How your company treat the complete diverse workforce?
a) Indiscriminate recruitment
b) Having variety of work
Q5) What is your understanding about the diverse workforce?
a) Engaged employees
b) Contain in decision making
c) Esteemed arbitrarily
Q6) Is diversity and comprehensive in employee is critical within your business?
a) Amplified innovations
b) Status of business
c) Aggressive edge
Q7) What do you understand about the collision of diverse and comprehensive personnel?
a) Enhanced recital

b) Augmented job satisfaction
Q8) What are the diverse meaning of diverse and comprehensive workers in the business?
a) Enlarged efficiency
b) Improved worker maintenance
c) Enhanced brand image
Qualitative questions
Q9) Describe the diverse scheme that is used by the business to calculate the diverse and
inclusive personnel?
 Training and development
 Participative control
Q10) How these strategy will be implement inside the business?
a) Change in leadership style
b) Performance appraisals
c) Equal opportunities to all
Q11) Recommendation
TASK 3
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and technique
Q1) Is your workplace has of diverse choice of people? Frequency
Yes 35
No 5

Interpretation- With the analysis of above of above information it is identified that there are
various and in large number employees are engaged within the organisation. This leads
management of Morrison to complete all work by involve of different number of employees.
Moreover, the number of respondents results also demonstrate that workforce relates with
diverse workforce.
Q2) Did your business authorize all the employees to venerate holidays
properly?
Frequency
Yes 30
No 10
Interpretation- By the above information it is identified that there all employees are related with
different various culture. So according to this management also consider proper holidays are
offered to employees for motivating more number of individuals to complete organisational work
and task with more motivation.
Q3) Is your workplace has the miscellaneous and completeness? Frequency
Yes 35
No 5

Interpretation- The existing results demonstrate that there are various task and operations are
performed and this all are related with completion of work in proper manner. So by completion
of work it is used in making better completeness that enhances better areas through which
employees are able for work in the making longer and desired results with team.
Q4) How your company treat the complete diverse workforce? Frequency
Indiscriminate recruitment 20
Having variety of work 20
Interpretation- For treating all workforces it is used by management for completion of work
with engaging better individuals. This also refers organisation is accomplishing better results
through which task and operations are managed with motive of engaging and providing similar
value in both perspective.
Q5) What is your understanding about the diverse workforce? Frequency
Engaged employees 15

Contain in decision making 15
Esteemed random employees 10
Interpretation- By understanding diverse and inclusive workforce it is estimated from results
various employees are engaged in organisation. It also considers that by engaging participants in
decision-making so better results are gained by management. With understand of both this
decision it is identified Morrison operations value is increased by including employees properly.
Q6) Is diversity and comprehensive in employee is critical within your
business?
Frequency
Amplified innovations 20
Status of company 10
Aggressive edge 10
Interpretation- By managing diverse and inclusive workforce management is able to complete
project and its task by performing work with diverse areas. The major benefit which is included

by company workforce results to implement innovations in all operations for that enhance
productivity areas for organisation with engaging innovation feature.
Q7) What do you understand about the collision of diverse and
comprehensive personnel?
Frequency
Enhanced recital 20
Augmented job satisfaction 20
Interpretation- The number of respondents demonstrates various benefits are gained by
management to gain results. Moreover, organisation is enhancing perspective of overall
understanding of diverse and inclusive workforce. This also results management is enhancing
better areas that offer in increasing job satisfaction and performance properly.
Q8) What are the diverse meaning of diverse and comprehensive workers
in the business?
Frequency
Enlarged efficiency 15
Improved worker maintenance 10
Enhanced brand image 15

Interpretation- With better and diverse workforce as well as included in business perspective
management consider all employees are offering in enhancing goodwill, brand image and
increase in efficiency of workers. The organisation is getting various benefits which increases
overall areas that is improving probability to complete task in an appropriate manner that
satisfies needs of customers properly.
Q9) Describe the diverse scheme that is
used by the business to calculate the
diverse and inclusive personnel?
Explanation
Teaching and development Morrison provides training to all employees through
which individuals skills and capabilities are increased.
The main benefit of teaching as well as development is
that all individual easily understand personality of all
persons.
Participative control In this management and leader all individuals motivate
employees through which management is enhancing
the working style and attitude of individuals towards
Morrison operations.
Q10) How these strategy will be
implement inside the business?
Explanation
Change in leadership style Participative leadership style is used by organisation

because more number of individuals are engaged in
employees. So this style is implemented among all
departments.
Performance appraisals With this form employees are more capable for
completion of task that promotes feeling of
competition and generate positive environment in
organisation.
Equal opportunities to all Morrison provides similar and equal opportunity by
which individuals work that makes individuals
comfort for gained by employee and organisation.
P6 Recommendation
With the all above information it is analysed that diverse and inclusive workforce that is
used in making business for generating better strategy. This is also analysed by organisation for
improvising strategy and all recommendation are based on the interpretation of results. Some of
the major recommendations that are used in making better results for organisation are mention as
follow:
 The first recommendation for organisation is used in making effective results that
satisfies needs and wants of customers in proper manner. It also refers management is
making longer results by explaining the meaning of diverse and inclusive workforce to
work in proper manner.
 By analysing all above information it is analyse that organisation must consider all work
in right manner. This also results in making better areas which also analyse of making
areas that generates ethical consideration and enhancing job satisfaction for offering
better results.
 With making of organisational aspects it is identified by management that task make
diverse workforce. Large number of employees performing task and it is used for
making areas which complete management Morrison in making right result. So it is
recommend to organisation for engage all employees in proper manner to improve
workforce.

TASK 4
P7 Reflection on the value of undertaking that make projects to meet with objectives
There are various points received by me for completing this research in proper manner and
for completing research projects in proper manner. So various strategies are implemented by me
to complete work by making strategies that is making longer results in generating areas that leads
for making meaningful conclusion. The diverse and inclusive management generates positive
results in making longer areas that is used for understating Morrison results. With the
supermarket analysis and it is used in making diversified range of products and services in
market. With the management and understand of all skills and knowledge that is used managing
results which satisfies needs of work. Some skills that are used by me to gain right results help in
understanding diverse range for individuals. It is also used in making detail description about
some of skills that further develop organisational strategy.
Competency Steps to make further
changes
Methods to develop this in
particular area
Analytical skill In order to understand overall
situation, analytical skills are
required by management for
making better changes that is
used to analyse data and attain
all seminars.
When methods are analysed
for research, it is identified
analytical skill are most
important for managing issue.
Moreover, by analyse of
overall data. I am able to
device better future decisions.
Research skill For enhancing the results areas
management is able for
making particular area. It is
essential in making for
understanding articles. This is
also used in making
newspaper, journals that make
to obtain better results.
Continue research is managed
by organisation to complete
task as per particular topic. In
this all particular skill it is
used in making results as per
research. Now I am able to
collect work with more
relevant data.
Project planning In order to make changes it is It was essential for me to

used in making project
planning. With the option for
work in senior executive all
task that makes results for
completing projects in a
proper manner.
generate better results through
making proper research
aspects that will generates
extra pay or benefit in making
right decision that reduces
chance of errors.
Communication skill Communication is required
among all aspects of a
research that are required for
completion of work in proper
manner. It also allow an
organisation to gather relevant
data. For this I attain different
workshop & seminars related
with communication.
Similarly, I also learned
formal method for
communication to interact
with professional individuals.
The main motive to complete
all task in a particular manner
researcher is focused to
enhance the performance for
particular project. The learn of
communication skill also help
me for interacting with
customers in best manner such
as with transparent skills that
allow to generate best results.
CONCLUSION
With the recognize of all above information it is concluded that an organisation must
adopt various strategies that enhance efficiency of employees. So better productivity will be
gained from researcher and organisation efforts through managing and controlling diverse and
inclusive workforce in internal premises of organisation. In order to manage a project with in an
effective manner various tools such as Gantt chart and WBS is used for complete of each action
and activity properly. In the last, information is gathered from various sources that enable an
organisation to complete research with reliability manner.

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Project Logbook for the chosen
organisation:
Name of the learner: Name of the Supervisor:
Project Title: “To determine the types
of Strategies and Initiatives companies put in
place to build a diverse and inclusive
workforce”. A case study on Morrison’s.
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?
The project completed for this topic relates
with determine of strategies and initiatives
that are put by organisation to build diverse
and inclusive workforce.
Week 1- Introduction is design in first week.
Week 2- Aims & objectives for second
week.
Week 3- Literature review is designed.
Week 4- Submission of research proposal.
Week 5- Data collection and data analysis.
Week 6- Conclusion and recommendation
Week 7- Submission of final report.
Yes, all requirements are fulfilled.
Yes
No, as per my concern changes are not
necessary.
Any risks and / or issues identified?
 Did you identify risks/issues with a
lack of skills required for undertaking
research tasks?
Yes, Risk is related with gather of
information.

 Did you identify any additional
risks/issues that have an impact on the
project management plan?
Yes, the another issue relates with financial
aspect.
Problems encountered
 What barriers did you face?
 How did you overcome them?
Team management and collection of data
from respondents.
With read of books and research paper.
New Ideas and change of project direction
What Have I learnt about myself this week?
 How did I feel when I had to deal with
tasks/problems?
 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 quite face more complexity and
pressurised with project.
I put all my effort for gain better outcome.
With different seminars and workshops I am
able to complete work properly.
It helps to attain better attractiveness in
future.

Tasks planned for next week
 Which tasks are priority?
 Have you set aside sufficient time for
completion?
The major task is related with utilisation of
resources.
Gantt chart helps to work with completion
of time.
Project plan status to date (on, ahead, behind)
Supervisor comments to address
Signature of the Supervisor and date: