Managing a successful business project

Managing a successful
business project
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Table of Contents
E – Portfolio: What talent strategies do the best companies use to attract and retain people?.......3
Task 1- Research Overview............................................................................................................3
Part A- Project Planning.................................................................................................................3
Introduction............................................................................................................................3
Aim and Objectives................................................................................................................3
Project management plan ......................................................................................................4
Work break down structure....................................................................................................5
Gantt chart..............................................................................................................................5
Part B- Conducting research...........................................................................................................7
Literature review................................................................................................................7
Research methodology.......................................................................................................8
Task 2 Present findings...................................................................................................................8
Findings..................................................................................................................................8
Task 3 – Reflective practice..........................................................................................................22
References.....................................................................................................................................24
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................24
Appendix.......................................................................................................................................25
Questionnaire........................................................................................................................25
Project Logbook...................................................................................................................26
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E – Portfolio: What talent strategies do the best companies use to attract and
retain people?
Task 1- Research Overview
Part A- Project Planning
Introduction
Talent management is the process of attraction, selection and retention of employees that
involves a combined human resources practises within across the employee life cycle. It
comprises about workforce planning, employee engagement, training and development and
other activities which comes under and handle by human resource department of specific
organisation. In organisation , talent management used as a form of strategy in order to attract
and improvise employees productivity in effective manner. The main purpose of talent
management is better developed to encourage or motivate employees regarding their goals
(Nowak and Scanlan, 2021). For this report, the company is selected Microsoft Corporation is
an American Multinational technology corporation which produces better computer related
software, consumer electronic etc. According to this report, the topic are covers project
management plan, Gantt Chart, Work Break Down structure, research method which described
in report. In last section, recommendation and reflection upon undertaking are also made within
the report.
Aim and Objectives
Aim: “To determine the different talent management strategies applied by the companies to
attract and retain the employees. A case study on Microsoft”.
Objectives:
 To understand the meaning of talent management within any organisation.
 To analyse the various talent management strategies used by Microsoft for attracting and
retain their employees within the organisation.
 To evaluate the challenges faced by Microsoft while implementing talent management
strategies.
Project management plan
Basic Description
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Aim and Deliverables The aim of report is to determine the different talent management
strategies applied by the companies to attract and retain the
employees. A case study on Microsoft”. This topic is helpful for
retain talent management within the small scale logistic
organisation and achieve effective growth in the profitability and
productivity (Mujtaba and Mubarik, 2021).
Time This is consider as one of the important aspect of specific study as
it assist in attaining about research objectives within given time
frame. It consists the importance for investigator towards set time
for each and every activity. In context of present study, the data is
collected in form of journals, articles and so which represent the
quality of study is high. The time taken for the research project is
2 Months.
Quality This factor reflect about the quality as well as effectiveness of the
information that is gathered by the researcher. Further more, it is
important for research to collect data from relevant or authentic
sources where it helps to maintaining high and proper quality
within the study.
Communication This aspect is determines the resources and tools which assort for
better communicating the data collected through investigation.
Along with, activities which conducted through it. There are
various methods which used by researcher to communicate such
as verbal (Jooss, Burbach and Ruë., 2021). Non verbal
communication are through E-mail, online messaging application
to better communicate findings and other things to study for
better associated through member within systematic manner.
Risk It is measured with every study which is associated through some
kind of risk and resources, not having proper coordination,
miscommunication, funds and so on. Due to which research
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objectives not attained proper manner.
Resources This is a most essential part of every research activity as it helps to
motivate researcher to better understanding the study in proper
manner. It is important for every researcher to have a backup plan,
as it help to dealing with issues and implement the solution in
effective manner.
Work break down structure
It is a part of project management and system engineering is a deliverable oriented
breakdown of a project into smaller components. A better work break down structure is the main
key for deliverables of project management to better organise managerial sections (Mitosis and
et.al., 2021).
Gantt chart
This structure is commonly assorted for graphical depiction of a specific project
schedule. It is type of bar chart which showing the start and finishes dates of project's elements
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such resources, planning and dependencies. It helps to assess how long project must undertake
for determine the resources are needed and plan in order to accomplish task (Tarique, 2021).
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Managing Successful Business
Project
(What talent strategies do the best companies use to attract
and retain people?)

Table of content
• Introduction
• Project aims and objectives
• Project planning
• Gantt chart
• WBS
• Literature review
• Research methodology
• Data analysis
• Recommendation
• References

Introduction
Talent management is the a procedure of attracting, developing and hold employees for long
term in business environment. Now a days, company is using talent management strategies
to retain their employees for long time. There are several types of talent management
strategies such as training and on boarding, rewards and appreciation, employees
engagement which is used by manager to motivate employees

Project aims and objectives
• “To determine the talent management schemes used in business organisation to attract and
retain talented people for long time.” A study on Microsoft.
• Objectives :
• To understand a meaning of talent management schemes within an organisation.
• To determine several talent management schemes used to attract and retain employees in
Microsoft.
• To analyse the impact of talent management schemes on the performance of Microsoft.