Managing a Successful Business Project

MANAGING A
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
PROJECT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Aim and objectives......................................................................................................................3
Project management plan.............................................................................................................4
WBS and Gantt chart...................................................................................................................5
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................7
Theme 1: Diversity & equality positively impact performance of an organisation.....................7
Theme 2: People gets motivated through equality & diversity management in an organisation 8
Theme 3: Prime barriers in diversity & equality management ...................................................8
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................9
DATA ANALYSIS........................................................................................................................11
Questionnaire.............................................................................................................................11
Themes.......................................................................................................................................12
RECOMMENDATIONS...............................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFLECTION ..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Background
Equality and diversity have emerged as a rising trend amongst the work places and
organisations where the management is giving an increased emphasis and importance to the kind
of work culture that they have developed and implemented mainly pertaining to the equality and
diversity aspect (Gupta, 2018). Prufrock Coffee is a small coffee café house, situated in London,
UK and entertains a small workforce. The current research will evaluate the impact that the
training and development practices have on the overall implementation of the equality and
diversity in the workplace. The primary data will be analysed and interpreted and based on that
relevant findings and conclusions will be presented in the last.
Aim and objectives
Rationale:
Prufrock Coffee is one of the leading retail stores in UK which is operating mainly in
food products and home appliances. The employees have become an important asset today and it
is necessary to develop and implement those work policies which foster and creates equality
amongst the workforce and also supports their diversity. It is therefore necessary to evaluate that
what are the practices that affect these attributes especially in context of the training and
development aspect of the potential employees of Prufrock Coffee (Owens and Patel, 2019). The
current research topic will address these very issues where it will be evaluated that how
collectively, the different recruitment and training practices that have been implemented in the
Prufrock Coffee affect the overall equality and diversity in their organisational workplace. This
is done particularly in context of training and development because a series of rigorous training
is given to employees working in Prufrock Coffee and this will be the best manner to evaluate
that whether organisation promotes gender equality and diversity or not.
Aim:
 “To analyse the impact of training and development opportunities towards promotion of
equality and diversity in the work place. A case study on Prufrock Coffee.”
Objectives:

 To ascertain the concept of training and development in a work place.
 To evaluate the impact that training and development has on the overall gender equality
amongst the workforce.
 To identify the challenges that arises in the implementation of training and development
practices.
 To suggest appropriate strategies for the challenges identified.
Project management plan
Project plan is an elaborate process where the different attributes that are related to the
completion of the research activities is evaluated and analysed and the potential impact of the
factors on the overall research is also taken into consideration. The plan will help in ascertaining
different aspects such as the time taken, resources required, cost and budget incurred etc. and for
the current research, the project management plan can be developed in following manner:
Cost: Cost indicates the overall amount that the researcher will require in the completion of the
research satisfactorily and the budget that the company should develop in order to implement the
findings of the research (Christian, Porter and Moffitt, 2016). The present research will require
approximately £1500 to complete the research and additional £32000 will be required to
implement changes in Prufrock Coffee so that the changes identified and any gaps in the existing
policies.
Scope: The scope indicates the limit beyond which the research cannot go i.e. it states the
broader level of topics that will be mainly covered in the research and the geographical are to
which scope is limited. In the current research, it is evident that only training and development
process of Prufrock Coffee will be evaluated in context of employees to measure equality and
diversity. Further, the area of research will be limited to the geographical area of UK only. The
research will help in gaining more relevant results as the scope is limited and hence more
rigorous research can be performed.
Time: Time is another critical aspect that indicates the overall time that will be required in order
to successfully complete all the research activities accordingly (Colquitt, Lepine and Gellatly,
2017). In the current research the time required by the researcher will be approximately 5 weeks
and the time required for the implementation of findings in Prufrock Coffee can go up to 1 year.
In this time the findings of the research can be successfully implemented.

Quality: Quality here indicates that the research being undertaken should be valid and relevant in
context of the organisational working. The results that are drawn must be realistic and in
consistency with the findings related to the company. In the present research as well, the
researcher should ensure that the findings generated are realistic and data collected is valid and
correct so that collectively the quality of research being undertaken can be improved. In order to
ensure that quality is maintained, respondents who are genuinely aware of the problems will be
selected.
Communication: Communication is an essential aspect in the overall achievement of the
research objectives that have been set up (Pitts, 2016). Throughout the research, researcher will
have to engage in communication with different parties such as respondents, managers, relevant
stakeholders etc. and this will help researcher in ascertaining clear exchange of communication
amongst them. In the current research as well, this attribute is the key contributor in the success
of the research and will increase the quality and justification of the findings and arguments
presented. The researcher can use both formal and informal manner of communication where
formal communication can be used while communicating with the management and informal
while communicating with the respondents.
Risk: The researcher can face a variety of risks while conducting the research and even before
the research. In such cases, it is necessary to develop adequate measures and actions in advance
that can be taken so that any severe consequences can be avoided. Data accuracy is one of the
most significant risks that will arise before the researcher. Some other risks are delay in timeline,
moving beyond the budgetary scope, any natural risk that might arise etc.
Resources: There are a variety of resources that are required in order to complete a research such
as the human resource, technical resources, equipments etc. (Yang and Matz-Costa, 2018. ). The
researcher can obtain the relevant and required resources so that these can be used in order to
complete the research successfully.
Therefore, in this manner the different aspects that are related to the research completion
have been illustrated in the project management plan that has been prepared.

WBS and Gantt chart
Work breakdown structure involve clear segregation and sequence formation of different
activities that are required to be completed in order to achieve the research objectives that have
been set up (Schachner, 2019). This is usually done in the form of a hierarchical structure which
indicates each level and the activities associated.
Gantt chart on the other hand indicates the time that will be required to complete each
activity and the sequential flow in which the different activities will be completed one after
another in order to achieve the research objectives. This can be prepared in following manner: