Managing a successful project Assignment

Managing a successful project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
L O 1................................................................................................................................................4
Aim, objectives and background..................................................................................................4
Project management plan.............................................................................................................5
Gantt chart and work breakdown structure..................................................................................8
Gantt chart ...................................................................................................................................8
L O 2..............................................................................................................................................10
Research methodology...............................................................................................................10
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................12
Data Analysis and interpretation................................................................................................12
Recommendation and conclusion..............................................................................................21
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................21
Reflection...................................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................22
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................23

INTRODUCTION
Diversity and inclusion refers to the mission, practises and strategies of firm to support
diverse workplace and taking advantage of the effects of diversity to gain competitive advantage
over competitors. One of the top priority of company for diversity and inclusion is recruiting
diverse workforce (Heagney, 2016). The present study is based on BMW. It was founded on 7th
March, 1916. The headquarter of company is located at Munich, Germany. The research will
outline project management plan that helps to evaluate various aspects of the project, work break
down structure . It will also focus on research methodology. Further, it includes methods of
collecting data through questionnaire and data analysis will be performed for achieving desired
results.
L O 1
Aim, objectives and background.
Background -
The strategies adopted by BMW plays a major role in developing diverse and inclusive
workforce. For building diverse workforce company have to recruit workers that belongs to
different culture, background etc. It have to conduct training for managers and leaders
maintaining unbiased behaviour in relation with employee’s. BMW is required to encourage
employee’s to provide their different points of view to develop an inclusive workforce. Present
Report will help to gain better understanding of strategies of BMW for building inclusive and
diverse workforce. The present Report is based on BMW. It is a multinational firm that
manufactures motorcycles and auto mobiles. It serves various countries worldwide. It owns
various brands such as Rolls-Royce, BMW X etc.
Aim -
“To assess strategies for building diverse and inclusive workforce by BMW in Romania in2020.”
Objectives - On the basis of above aim following objectives have been drafted such as:
 To develop understanding about the concept of workforce diversity.
 To evaluate models pertaining to workforce diversity and its management.
 To identify ways through which diverse workforce can be built by BME for expansion.
 To recommend competent strategies to BMW for building as well as managing diverse
and inclusive workforce.

Scope of the project.
The study includes project management plan, work breakdown structure. It also includes
detail methodology that has being adopted by researcher to conduct research like research
methods, data collection methods etc.
Project boundaries.
The study does not include literature review. It means that, the study does not include the
current knowledge that involves theoretical contributions of other scholars and substantive
findings etc.
Justification.
The research will help various other scholars to conduct research in similar area. It will
help to save time and resources of researchers to conduct similar research. It will also help
students who have to prepare project report. Further, it will assist other firms that are operating in
auto-mobile industry to develop strategies for building diverse workforce.
Limitations.
The study has various limitations such as time constraints, expenses involved in
conducting research etc.
Project management plan.
Project -
It can be described as the series of different type of tasks that are required to perform in
order to achieve a particular result. It can also be defined as a set of input and output that are
essential for attaining a specific goal (Todorović and et.al, 2015).
Project management -
It refers to the practice of starting, planning, implementing, executing and closing the
tasks of a team to attain particular outcomes and to meet out specific criteria of success (Hofman
and Kramer, 2015).
Cost -

It can be defined as the amount that is incurred for the purpose of attaining a specific
objective of the researcher. While conducting this study, there are several expenses that incurred
by the researcher and also by BMW. The expenses that is incurred by researcher include
expenditure related with printing, cost of conducting survey through questionnaire and cost of
obtaining data through various relevant sources etc.
Cost table for researcher
Particulars Expenses ( £ )
Expenses on stationary items 50
Data Collection 150
Cost of Printing 100
Expenses related with developing
Questionnaire.
150
Total 450
Cost table for Company
Particulars Expenses ( £)
Investment 100
Employee training expenditure 150
Cost of Research and development 50
Expertise 200
Total 500
Scope -
It refers to a prospect that is expanded for obtaining different perspectives in the future in
respect of performing the research. From researcher's point of view, the scope of this study is to
evaluate the strategies of BMW for building the diverse and inclusive workforce. The study
provides an understanding of the concept of workforce inclusion and diversity. Moreover, the
study includes different ways in which BMW can build diverse workforce for the organization.
At last, the study also provides recommendations on developing competent strategies for
building as well as managing diverse and inclusive workforce etc.
Risk -