Managing a Successful Business Project - Aims

Managing a Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P1 The aim and objective of the study .......................................................................................3
P2. Project management plan for the organisation......................................................................5
P3. Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart..........................................................................6
P4 Research methodology...........................................................................................................1
P5. Evaluation and interpretation of the data..............................................................................4
P6 Recommendation and data analysis.....................................................................................13
P7. Way to meet the research objective ...................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................18
Project logbook.........................................................................................................................19
Performance review template....................................................................................................20
Questionnaire............................................................................................................................20

INTRODUCTION
In the recent time, the globalization has gained a good popularity and is observed or
followed by organization. It can be termed as the practice of carrying out the business activities
and operations which are followed by an enterprise on international scale. This will allow an
enterprise to interact and cater the needs of a vivid customer base. As the requirements of buyers
or consumers on global level is met, it will lead to improvement of business activities and
improves the economic growth of the organization. In other words, the measures and practices
related to globalization will help in improving the economical, cultural and ethical condition
within the organization. The present research report is based on the impact of globalization on
the HR functions of retail enterprise, John Lewis. It is a UK based retail enterprise which
operates in European countries and Australia. The report will cover the details about the positive
impact laid by globalization. All these measures will affect the economic, cultural and ethical
considerations which are followed by the firm. Suitable aims and objectives will be set and
effective evaluation of time, quality communication, risk and resources are been carried out with
significant time frames. Suitable research methodology and data assessment is carried out. Other
than this, proper recommendation and conclusion is presented with evaluation of outcomes
revoiced from research process. Also, a reflection on personal experience and findings is been
presented.
MAIN BODY
P1 The aim and objective of the study
background
In relation of all the countries in the current scenario the concept of the globalization
have changed and form the various relationship between the human culture and societies. As the
today's world is the world of the e-commerce, the role of the human resources should be change
as the process of the globalization is the multidimensional process. Its not just the cost of the
organization that have to be valued, but the human resource are expected to follow the
organization's value. Today the human resources has the separate social identity in the
international arena. Rising up from the broken templates after the globalization is one of the
major challenge that an organization face. The globalization leads to the detachment from
various monopolies and lead to the competitive environment to gain the competitive edge in all
the various area of political, power, technology and psychological. The effective human resource

is one most important part of the globalization as the human resource are the one who leads the
work in the growth manner. It is believed that the globalization is in all different dimensions with
all over the sphere and updated. With the passing of the time it is more clear that the
globalization is there in conceptual and functional change.
Various dimension of globalization
The economic dimension- as with the time the trade practices, the supply of the credit the
production system and the financial global structure are well transformed. Due the globalization,
the countries are autonomous these days and are the part of the massive computerized system
which results in very vulnerable fluctuation. In everyone's mentality the economy which is most
tangible and the globalization is the most embrace territory in everyone's mentality.
Cultural dimension- due to globalization, there is the rapid change in the productive
relation in the trade freedom as two different culture are moving towards each other through
increasing development of the media and the global networks are proving variety of program
which is increasing the cultural convergence (Davis and Van Wincoop, 2018).. As in this world-
dominating culture everyone want wants it owns unification of indigenous, local culture and
national identity, the globalization will disintegrate.
Ethical dimension – multi national companies are occupying commanding part of the economy
contains the most of the part of the media that somehow shape our information in the valid
documents. They put up the idea globally as the product and services in the economy, they make
higher level of employment to the employees, they pay taxes to the government as working
anywhere globally. So how its possible, globalization. So we say that as compare to the national
government the multinational company is stronger.
Aim
“To identify positive ethical, cultural and economic impact of globalization on business
functions: A study on John Lewis”
Objectives
 To understand framework of globalization and its vital importance to business
environment
 To examine influence of ethical, cultural and economic factors of globalization on
marketing, operational, HR functions of John Lewis

 To identify the relationship between these factors and the performance of business
 To suggest various ways to strengthen the positive impact of ethical, cultural and
economic factors on marketing and operational function.
Research questions
 Explain conceptual framework of globalization and its importance to business
 How the ethical, cultural and economic factors of globalization affects the marketing and
operational functions of John Lewis
 Explain the relationship between ethical, cultural and economic factors and business
performance
P2. Project management plan for the organisation
Project management plan is an approved, formal document which defines the process of
monitoring, controlling and executing the project. It provides a baseline about the conducted
project. It helps to describe the cost, scope, quality, time, communication, risk and resources
(Lee and Lin, 2016).
Cost : Cost is the major factor which make an impact on whole research. Researcher use various
ways to estimate the cost and reducing the cost for their project. To find the positive economic,
cultural and ethical impact of globalisation on HR, marketing, operation and accounting in John
Lewis company the research scholar carry various cost like transportation cost to gather the
primary and secondary data, cost of purchasing the software for research, stationary, printing etc.
The estimation of cost in various activities help the research scholar to get the sufficient fund for
accomplishing the project.
Scope of the study : This study helps to find the impact of globalisation on HR in the
organisation. This study has huge scope for the HR, marketing, operation manager and the
organisation. It helps to find the changes in the organisational culture and environment by
globalisation. It helps the different functional manager to take the efficient decision in different
situation. It explains the positive impact of economy, culture and ethics of globalisation. The HR
manager can use this research to improve the quality of product in the organisation by
summarising the effect of globalisation.

Quality : Quality of the research project describe the authentication of the data. It depends upon
the accuracy of the data. If collected data and their presentation are accurate than the quality of
the research project are also good. In this study of positive impact of ethics, culture and economy
of globalisation on the business they can use the various software to improve the quality of the
data. They can also use the authenticate journals, research studies to get more qualified data.
Time : Research scholar need some time to collect the data and organise them to gather a useful
research and implement the data in research project. They use the Gantt chart to present the
activities with their time in the graph. It helps them to regulate the time for each activity and
manage the time according to their project.
Communication : To collect the primary data for the research, the research scholar has to
communicate with different managers of the organisation to know their view about the impact of
globalisation on the organisation. They can use the questionnaire method to gather the
information from the respondents and evaluate the result from their answers (Blanchard and
Olney, 2017).
Risk : The project research involves various risk in gathering the accurate information and
completing their project. Risk involves the inadequacy of fund, authentication of software, the
response of the respondents in interview or questionnaire answer etc. The risk arise various
problem for the research scholar.
Resources : The research scholar need various resources like software, human resources, fund
etc. To collect the secondary data for the research project they need the various software. They
also need fund to carry out their research project. To purchase the stationary, software and for
printing the research they need fund.
P3. Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
Work breakdown structure : Work break down structure helps to getting the solution
of complex situation in the organisation. It divides the complex situation into sub unit to clarify
the each problem and get the fastest solution. It is a hierarchical tree structure to outline the
project baseline and break down into smaller situation. The aim of conducing the work
breakdown structure is to make the complex project more manageable and get the effective
solution. The break down structure help the researcher in the study of positive impact of ethics,
culture and economy of globalisation to break down the big information into smaller data and get

the quick result. Different team member lead the smaller task to manage the work in a better way
and increase their productivity and profitability in the project. It helps the project researcher to
get the solution of complex problem. It makes the data simpler to interpret their result in the
organisation.
Gantt chart : Gantt chart is developed by Henry L. Gantt in 1917. It is a horizontal bar
chart which was used for control the production activity. It helps to plan, organise, coordinate
and control the various activity in the John Lewis company. In Gantt chart the horizontal line
represent the total time spend in the various activities and the vertical line represent the various
activities in the project research like time in gathering secondary data, total time in getting the
respondents answer, interpretation, printing documentation etc. By using the Gantt chart in the
study of positive impact of ethics, culture and economy of globalisation they can manage the
time in gathering data, information and interpretation to get the final; result. It helps to know the
whole research activities and the time in single graph. By the representation of the total activities
it helps to scheduling, monitoring and controlling the different activities in research project
(Zafar, Saud and Hou, 2019). It helps to find out the bottlenecks in the project. It helps to detect

the project completion time and get the work done in proper time. It shows the progress of the
project in comparison to its plan and present the whole project picture.