Managing a Successful Business Project: A Case Study on Sainsbury's

Unit-6- Managing a
Successful Business
Project

Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1) Devise the aim and objectives..............................................................................................1
P2) Produce a project management plan.....................................................................................4
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart.......................................................5
P4) Carry out small-scale research..............................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and techniques. .....................................9
P6) Communicate appropriate recommendations as a result of findings and data analysis to
draw valid and meaningful conclusions....................................................................................15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P7 Reflect on the value of undertaking the project to meet stated objectives and own learning
and performance. ......................................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

TITLE
“To specify various initiatives as well as strategy that is taken by the business so as to
maintain and germinate the different and inclusiveness within the personnel”. A case study on
Sainsbury's.
INTRODUCTION
Managing a business requires the continuous efforts of all the individual that are working
within the business and with this it is important that they have adopt the different policy and
strategies so as to achieve the objectives in systematic manner. The successful business need to
maintain the constant focus on the need and demand of the customer with the fulfilment of
employee requirement as well. The major goal behind this is to generate the effective
sustainability inside the working surround with this the long terms goals get achieved with more
perfection thus company get the better return of their investments (Bacouël-Jentjens, 2016). In
addition it is also required that the equivalence and diverseness must get maintained within the
business as with this the company as work with the talented workforce and thus the working
standard of the business get more developed. In this diversity is more related to the establishment
of the positive values in course of differences that is more based on the culture, religion, race,
background etc. The following report is based on the Sainsbury's as is the supermarket company
and having the sizeable chain of supermarkets in UK and was founded by the John James
Sainsbury's in the year 1869 with having the headquartered in London, UK. The following report
consist of the project plan and execution and include the work Breakdown Structure and a Gantt
Chart. Furthermore consist the project report and the reflection with the support of findings.
TASK 1
P1) Devise the aim and objectives
To measure diverse strategy and the initiatives that has been taken by the company so as
to promote and emphasis the positive impact of the fairness and assortment within the workforce.
The equality is simply the condition that get used by the business to get work with the employee
that are more talented and skilled regardless with the number of worker that might get varied but
the company provide the equal opportunities to all the employees (Bell, 2018). In this
Sainsbury's ensure that their employee get the similar access of all the generated possibilities
without getting differentiate them on the basis of discriminations. It is the needed that the
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Sainsbury's must have take the timely based initiatives in order to promotion of equality through
which it is easy for the employees to get accept the diverse culture with more easiness and
imparts the beneficiary outcomes in which the employee have worked with more sufficiency and
that enhance the working standard by which the productivity of the business also get more
developed.
Aim: To specify the various initiatives and strategy that is taken by the business in order
to maintain and develop the diverse and inclusiveness within the workforce by which it get easy
for the employee to accept each other culture and abilities (Brown, 2017). In this Sainsbury's
works with the concern about to increases the participation and engagement level of employees
through which the valuable and favourable result get conceived in timely basis.
Objectives:
 To gain better knowledge about the sameness and diverseness within the work.
 To measure the contact of diversity with inclusiveness over the employer of Sainsbury's.
 To analyse importance of diversity with prospect of company.
 To define the favourable outcome of inclusiveness within the workforce.
Research questions:
 Understanding about the sameness and diverseness within the workplace?
 The impinging of diversity as well as inclusiveness over the workers of Sainsbury's?
 The importance of diversity with prospect of company?
 To define the favourable outcome of inclusiveness within the workforce.
Literature review
Understanding about the sameness and diverseness within the workplace?
According to the viewpoint of Mary Jones, 2019, fairness, assortment and inclusiveness
is about to make sure that none of the employee feels left out while working within the business
as that is due to age, ethnicity, language etc. while in diversity the appropriate benefits get
provided with appreciation as well (Crane, 2019). These are the factors that are more vital and
personal to all the individuals with that they have work with the expressly by which fair surround
get promoted to all the talents. Equality is an opportunity that produce the counterproductive
outputs in combine of all the different individual that are working within the company. With the
support of diversity the inclusive surround get boost in which all the employee shared the similar
feeling and values and is important with the aspect of legal, moral and economically.
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The impact of diversity and inclusiveness over the employees of Sainsbury's.
According to the point of view of Somen Mondal, 2020, diverseness and inclusion is the
apprehension, acceptive and valuing difference in between the employees as like education,
skills set, personalities, knowledge base and experiences instead of gender, age, disabilities,
religion, ethnicities etc. Inclusion is the place that is more supportive, collaborative by which the
participation of employee also get exceeded and removes the other barrier as like intolerance and
discrimination (Davis, 2016). It is combine the mission, practice and strategy leveraging the
effect to attain effective agonistically vantage. The different business that adopt assortment and
inclusiveness are more creative and adaptable thus able to attract the talent employees.
The importance of diversity with prospect of company.
As per the standpoint of Caroline Forsey, 2018, the diversity at workplace increases the
return on investments and that lead to more innovatory ideas by which the productivity of
business get enhanced. The embrace of fairness is to most critical formulations of the business
and with this discrete benefits get attained that strengthen the ability of business. It foster the
innovation and creativity that improvise the working performance by which employee get
performed their work with effective ideas and also help to become the global leader by which the
capabilities of business get advance and with this they have attract the talented employee with
more easiness.
To define the favourable outcome of inclusiveness within the workforce.
According to the viewpoint of Charong Chow, 2019, multifariousness brings diverse
perspectives to the business by which have develop the different advancement so as to cater the
customers. There are some different benefits that get raised by the acceptance of diversity as like
better revenue, effective decision making, advance innovation, maximum rate of job satisfaction
and acceptance and with that the performance of business as compare to the competitors get
developed and enhanced (Elegbe, 2016). It is key to maintain and develop the efficient
employees that brings the supreme effectiveness of the working norms.
P2) Produce a project management plan
It is the well backhand representation consist of all relative information about the project
and it assist the researcher to plan. Control, implement, execute and monitor all assorted task and
action that are required to perform so as to control downright the projection.
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 Cost: It is an amount that get associated with the completion of project and consist of the
different functions as like the equipments, travel cost, research tool, cost of legal
compliance, miscellaneous etc. It consist in the budgeting that get developed by the
company and provided to the researcher to complete the project with more perfection
(Hajro, 2017).
 Time: It is the instance that is relative to the accomplishment of research and in this
project the researcher need the total time of about 3 weeks and within this period of time
the research has been completed by elimination of all the different risk by which its
output is more useful for the business. Scope: It is basically the specified goal that has been achieved by the researcher by
attaining the output with more perfection by managing all the different aspect as like
functions, deliverables, costs, features, deadlines etc. In this the researcher must get
ensure that all the resources will get utilised with more appropriateness that generate the
valuable result (Hickman, 2018). Quality: It is the prospect that get achieved as after the completion of project and in this
the researcher always get ensure that the perfect collection and analysis of all the required
information get performed that generate the suitable solutions which is furthermore apply
by the business so as to improvise the acceptance of diversity and inclusiveness. Communication: It is the most prior aspect that is needed while making the efficient
interaction with the others as in this the clear and transparent information get transferred
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by which the effective result get collected. In this the participation of the employee also
get developed and thus researcher need the antithetical medium of abstraction such as
internet, computers, form etc. Risk: It is the factor that is associated with the completion of project and get resist the
productivity of the useful outcomes and for this the researcher manage all the task with
more adequacies and make sure that all the redundancy get reduces in certain period of
instance thus quality result get enhanced (Hopkinson, 2018).
 Resources: It include the different source which is required for the completion of project
and with this researcher need the printers, mobile phone, human resource etc. that all
collectively aid to absolute the research by satisfactoriness.
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart
Gantt chart: This chart is usually in form of bar graph and define overall schedule of the
project and also reflect the dependency and interlink of all the activities as per the status
programme as well. It is more used to assist the different tools that aid the effectual planning of
the project in simpler manner (Khan, 2019). In this the researcher get a support to analyse all
activities by which the barrier get reduce within the same time period thus relevant result get
attained.
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