Unit 6 - Managing a Successful Business Project

Managing a Successful
Business Project

INTRODUCTION
Globalisation can be define as a process of interaction as well as integration among
different companies, people or government (Artto, Ahola and Vartiainen, 2016). This is an
important process for increasing interconnection of national and global economy. Globalisation
refers to a expansion of business or its products and services from outside geographical
boundaries of company. Chosen company for this report is Nestle. This is a Swiss multinational
company which is dealing in food and drink products. Nestle was established in 1866 and
founder of this company is Henri Nestle. Its headquarter is located in Vevey, Switzerland and the
company is providing products and services in every corner of the world. This report includes
manner in which multinational companies can promote equality and diversity in the personnel
employed by them so that a diversified and yet motivated personnel can be created in the
organisation. It consists of different methods of collecting and analysing data for meeting project
aims and objectives.
TASK 1
P1. Devise project aims and objectives for the topic
Background of the project:
Nestle is one of the largest food processing company which is spread all over the globe.
This company was founded in 1866 and founder of Nestle is Henri Nestle. This is a Swiss
multinational company which is dealing in food or drinks products. Product portfolio of Nestle
includes coffee, dairy products, baby food, confectionery, bottled water, ice cream and so on.
Nestle's headquarter is situated at Vevey, Switzerland and it is providing its products and
services worldwide. Some products range of Nestle includes Maggi, Kit Kat, Nespresso,
Nescafe, Vittel, Smarties and so on. Under this report, it has been analysed that how
multinational companies can incorporate equality and diversity in their recruitment process and
thus create a motivated and integrated work force (Bartlett, Doz and Hedlund, 2018).
Globalisation of business will have huge impact on increasing trade of goods and services across
borders. It also leads to improve level of labour migration between different countries.
Research Aim:
“To incorporate Equality and Diversity in recruitment, training and selection process of
an organisation so that international requirements can be met. A case study on Nestle”
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Research Objectives:
 To analyse the requirement of equality and diversity in recruitment, training and selection
process.
 To identify the different ways through which an organisation can improve its training,
selection and recruitment process.
 To ascertain how Nestle can meet international standards by implementing changes in
thier HR practices.
Research Questions:
 What is the requirement of equality and diversity in recruitment, trainnig and selection
process?
 What are the different ways through which an organisation can improve their recruitment
process so that a motivated workforce can be built?
 How an organisation can meet with international requirement by implementing changes
in HR practices?
P2. Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality,
communication, risk, and resources.
Project management plan can be define as a process of creating or developing a plan that
will help in managing all activities of a project. This is a document which represent all task and
activities of a project and how it can be achieved (Basu, 2017). Project management plan is
responsible for managing all activities, task and resources that is needed to successfully complete
a project. In order to conduct a successful project or research, researcher needs to cover various
aspects such as scope, cost, time, quality, communication, risk and resources.
 Cost– Cost is one of the most essential aspect of a business and it covers amount of
money required. For conducting an effective research, it required some amount of money
for carrying out its activities or task. Researcher needs to analyse in advance regarding
estimate amount of cost that is required. For this report total cost needs is £100 and this
will help in successful completion of all task
 Time– It is basically refers as a time that is required to successfully complete research. In
order to effective and efficient completion of this research, researcher need approx time
frame of 7 weeks. It is very important to analyse estimated time that is required by
researcher to completely all task of research.
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 Quality- This represent quality of research as well as data collected or used for
conducting this research. This refers to content collected or used by researcher in this
report is very accurate and correct (Beringer, Jonas and Kock, 2018). In order to conduct
a effective research, researcher needs to collect or use more realistic data for different
sources so that valid conclusion can be drawn.
 Risk- During conduction of this investigation, researcher needs to deal with various
risk. As Information is collected from different sources and accuracy of data is a risk for
this research. Secondary sources of data collection may leads to providing data which is
not correct or as per requirement of research.
 Communication – Communication play a major role in conducting a successful research.
For collecting data and information research needs to communicate with various people
in market area. In order to find more accurate data, researcher needs to communicate with
different people such as customers, suppliers, staff members. This will help in gaining
successful outcomes of research. The researcher interacts with the managers of the
company about the progress in the research via e-mails and video-conferencing and the
managers further interacts with the employees through democratic communication
channel that prevails in the company to upgrade them on the new techniques and get
feedbacks from the employees.
 Scope- Scope of conducting this report is to identify and analyse how multinational
companies can enhance their recruitment, selection and training process so that they can
meet with international requirements. This report will help in providing proper scope as
well as different human resource practices that needs to be taken by company for
improving their process.
 Resources- This includes all of the resources that is required by researcher for
conducting research. Investigator needs to analyse and evaluate requirement of all
resources that are necessary for successful completion of research (Chang, Walters and
Wills, 2018). It also consist of different tools or techniques that can be used by researcher
that leads to minimising errors. Resources required in this report are primary and
secondary data so that they can conduct research effectively.
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P3. Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to provide time frames and stages for
completion.
Breakdown structure
This is a methods which helps in dividing complex and large project into small parts.
Work breakdown structure is a tree hierarchical structure that break projects into manageable
portions. This is very helpful in assigning task and responsibility to different teams as well as
evaluating task performed by each and very team. Work breakdown structure helps large projects
by breaking down project into smaller components which leads to easily manage all task of
project. This is beneficial for organisation as it leads to reducing cost of projects as well as
determining timeline or schedule of project.
Gantt chart
This can be describe as a graphical representation of project or task schedule. This chart
was developed by Henry Gantt who is an American mechanical engineer. Gantt chart is in a form
of horizontal bar chart that is developed with motive of controlling production (DeFillippi,
2015). This chart includes start and finish dates of different components such as resources, task
milestones and so on which is necessary for project. This is an effective tool which is used in
management of a project and helps in planning of project. Gantt chart leads to provide clear
illustration about status of project.
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