Identifying and Understanding Issues of Gender and Racial Inequality and Diversity in Verdant Leisure

Managing a Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Topic............................................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Overview of the Company...........................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Aims and Objectives for the Project.......................................................................................3
P2 Project Management Plan.......................................................................................................4
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart...........................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................8
P4 Qualitative and quantitative research methods appropriate for meeting project aims and
objectives.....................................................................................................................................8
Findings.....................................................................................................................................10
LO3................................................................................................................................................12
P5 Analysis of Finding..............................................................................................................12
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................22
P6 Recommendations................................................................................................................23
Project........................................................................................................................................23
Recommendations......................................................................................................................24
LO4................................................................................................................................................24
P7 Reflection/Performance Review...........................................................................................24
Success of the project and its usefulness in supporting organisational performance............24
Own Performance..................................................................................................................25
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................26
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................27

INTRODUCTION
Topic
Topic of this project is “Identifying and understanding issues of gender and racial
inequality and diversity and help organisation to create equality and diversity. Case study of
Verdant Leisure”.
Background
Equality in organisation is very important which involves that all the employees within
organisation are given equal opportunity and treated equally regardless of any protected
characteristic they have. Protected characteristics refer to those characteristics which have been
included in equality act such as gender, disability, age and some other characteristics (Davis,
2016). Gender and racial inequality is one in which employees in organisation are discriminated
and treated unequally on the basis of their gender and race. For example Male employees in
organisation are given preference and female employees are discriminated while recruitment and
selection or in other organisational opportunities. Diversity refers to creation of workforce in
organisation which consist of people with different background and ethnicity and with different
characteristics. This is important for organisation to maintain equality and diversity in order to
get benefit of employees having different characteristics and equality ensure that they are able to
perform to their greatest potential.
Overview of the Company
The organisation is Verdant Leisure, this was founded in 2010 as Holiday Park Company.
The company operates in Scotland and North of England. The organisation being a medium size
organisation and have a strong team of management. There are several services that are being
offered by Verdant Leisure in which it offers tours, Holiday Park and many other services. Its
holiday park and leisure services are available at many places.
LO1
P1 Aims and Objectives for the Project
Aims

Aim of this project is to “Identify issues regarding gender and racial inequality and
diversity and suggests measures through which these can be reduced in order to gain business
advantages”.
Objectives
 To identify and understand why it is important for Verdant Leisure to maintain equality
and diversity in organisation
 To understand the issues that organisation is facing regarding gender and racial inequality
 To understand how motivation and work behaviour of employees get affected because of
equality and diversity within organisation
 To understand impact of these issues on performance of employee and performance of
organisation
 To recommend measures and solutions through which these issues can be resolved
Timeframes
These aim and objectives will be achieved in a time of 8 weeks. In this firstly objectives
that are concerned with identifying and understanding issues and impact of equality and diversity
and later recommendations will be provided.
P2 Project Management Plan
Scope of the Project
Increasing competition in the leisure industry is requiring that all aspects of the
organisation are provided equal attention in this, employees are important aspect (Spychalska-
Wojtkiewicz, 2018). Scope of the project extends to almost all areas of the organisation because
it is concerned with identifying inequality and diversity issues within organisation at all level of
hierarchy. It will also make impact on performance of organisation and its competitive position
in the market.
Timescale and Time Management

Major focus within the project will be provided to the areas where problem and impact is
identified. This is because correct identification of the problem will lead to understanding and
identifying right solutions for the problems. This means a problem well understand is a problem
well solved.
Cost
Cost is important aspect that affects success of the project because this is a resource
which is essential in order to complete the project (Jin, Shen and Wang, 2018). The cost that will
be required to complete this project is estimated to be £1000.
Quality Management
It is important to ensure that quality of the project is high. In order to manage the quality
regular monitoring will be undertaken. It is important to plan but it is not important that when it
is not working it cannot be modified. This means that in order to maintain quality of the product
in order to achieve objectives required modifications can be made in the planning.
Communication
Communication involves sharing and receiving information. In order to maintain free flow of
communication specific channel is being prepared on digital medium (Smit and et.al., 2017).
This will allow all the people concerned with project to share and receive information.
Risk
The risk in this project is concerned with information and research aspects of the project
(Denney, 2020). This means if information and data collected for the purpose of research is not
right and accurate. This can affect overall success of the project.
Resources
Resources that are required for undertaking and completing the project are human resources,
financial resources and information and knowledge resources (Dociu, 2018). Resources and their
availability can make important impact on the success of the project.
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart