Unit 6: Managing a Successful Business Project

MANAGING A
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES
PROJECT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK A...........................................................................................................................................3
Overview of company..................................................................................................................3
Aims and objective for project....................................................................................................4
Project management plan with relevant actions to meet objectives and time frame...................4
Research methodologies............................................................................................................11
Primary and secondary research to generate knowledge...........................................................12
Data analysing, findings and conclusion to form for recommendations...................................14
Recommendations in correct manner........................................................................................18
TASK B.........................................................................................................................................18
TASK C.........................................................................................................................................19
TASK D.........................................................................................................................................19
Log Book...................................................................................................................................19
Performance review...................................................................................................................21
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................22
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

Topic- To determine the challenge and issues arise out of diversity and equality in workplace
and to identify measures taken to solve them.
INTRODUCTION
Diversity and equality play essential role in workplace, it helps to enhance the ability of
staff and increase productivity level rather than before. Due to lack of equality and diversity
companies facing issues that effect growth and success for business. They have to face many
challenges that impact on revenue and quality of products. The present report is based on Lucky
cat of Gordon Ramsay restaurants case, they face challenges and issues due to lack of equality
and diversity in workplace. It explains the brief overview of organization, with aim and
objectives. It justifies project management plan, timelines and work break down structure.
Furthermore, this project clarifies methodologies, research findings and recommendations based
on issues and challenges in workplace.
TASK A
Overview of company
Lucky cat of Gordon Ramsay Restaurants were located in US, United Kingdom, New
Jersey and other places, they have diverse collection of international and London restaurants.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay is three Michelin star restaurants in UK, operated and owned by
Gordon Ramsay in 1998. In list of Harden's restaurant, Gordon Ramsay is placed at seventeenth
position in London. They produce different types of dishes for its potential consumers in order to
retain with business, company also restructure their existing menu or ad some food items
according to the demand of people that help to attract new clients. They serve high quality of
food to people within marketplace effectively, with the help of experienced and talented
applicants in workplace. They provide its services in Atlantic city, Baltimore, Las Vegas etc.
with set of unique sinning experience.
Restaurant offering good consumers service in clean and hygienic environment that help to
enhance experience of its number of guests in systematic manner (Oswick and Noon, 2014). The
staff of this restaurant interact with people in courteous and positive attitudes that drive guest
towards firm. Workers of restaurant are able to deliver greater quality of food dishes quickly and
on time without any unsatisfactory work, because it impacts on growth and market position of
business. The cleaning department will always clean dining and cooking area properly in order to
keep restaurants clean at all the times. Lucky cat is able to prepare foods accordant to

requirement and demand of target market. It is rated as third most expensive restaurants in UK as
well as all around the world. Fat cow, Murano, Verre, Petrus, Savoy grill etc. are one of the best
Gordon Ramsay restaurants. Pressed Foie and lobster is one of the most expensive dish of
restaurant which is not affordable for every one in state. The staff member work without any
specific dress code, they can wear something formal.
Aims and objective for project
Aim-
To measure the challenges and problems raise due to lack of equality and diversity in
work place. A case study of: lucky cat (Gordon Ramsay Restaurants)
Objective-
 To analyse the concept and significance of diversity and equality
 To identify the challenges and issues faced by Gordon Ramsay restaurants due lack of
diversity and equality in workplace.
 To determine measures taken to solve challenges and problems due to inequality and
diverse workforce in Lucky cat.
 To evaluate the effectiveness of methods uses to solve issues in workplace arise due to
inequality and lack of diversity.
Research questions-
 What are the concept and importance of diversity as well as equality?
 What are the challenges and problems faced by Gordon Ramsay restaurants in workplace
due to inequality and lack of diversity?
 What are the measures taken in order to resolve issues and tackle challenges in workplace
due to equality and diversity?
 What the benefits of methods taken to solve problems in workplace?
Project management plan with relevant actions to meet objectives and time frame
Project management plan is set of subsidiary plans and collection of baselines that
include relevant actions such as scope, cost, schedule, communication, quality, risk and time.
Project management plan is continuously elaborated, that means it is refined, updated, developed
and revisited (Syed and Ozbilgin, 2019). It is incorporated all knowledge area management plan
into cohesive, entire it needs to be collected after all elements plans will be created. The aim of

PMP is to foresee risks and issues as possible and to make plan for controlling and organizing
activities that helps to completed project effectively.
Cost-
Cost is the most essential element of PMP, it helps to complete all the activities and
provide possible results. Each activity in project will have assigned cost or budget, the total cost
be rolled up into work budget. It allows earning important analysis to identify status, costs of
research project is calculated while planning each phases of work, that will be approved before
begging of project. The cost of each activity is defined with the helps of researcher, in which
they decide the actual budget of activities.
Activities Costs (£)
Cost of stationary products 200
Expenses of conducting research and gathering
data
350
Expenses of final printing 70
Cost related with preparing questionnaire 90
Total 710
Scope-
It stated what activities are part of work, scope of work is well-defined at initial stage of
research. The scope of this project it to describe major deliverable of work that help in further
research. It supports to completed research with essential variables and provide high level of
quality. It refers to range up to which subject is discussed, includes explanation to all data
collected while conducting research. In current project the scope of research is to study
challenges and issues in workplace due to lack of equality and diversity.
Risk-
Risk management plan is another significances component or action of PMP that helps to
determine and prioritize any risk might be arisen while conducting research that make negative
effect outcomes. In respond to research, management of risk provide larger benefits to researcher
as help to take better safeguard after analysing risk before it affects each activity. In context to

Lucky cat different kind of risk impacts on growth of organizations such as cost risk, strategic
risk and operational risk.
Time-
Time management is referred to elements of overall project management plan in which
the appropriate timeline is developed and analysed by researcher for completing project.
Investigator takes different phases for managing time effectively such as controlling and
monitoring activities. With the help of Gantt chart the timelines of activities in project is clearly
defined. In context of, restaurant timelines assure that each and every action will be completed
on time and in right place.
Quality-
Researcher will develop the standard relate to quality which is essential components of
work. They have to create strategies that support to meet with quality standards and help to
measure it through range of tools and techniques. To maintain the project quality, Gordon
Ramsay Restaurants uses different types of tools such as benchmarking and cause analysis, that
also help to maintain diversity and equality as well.
Communication-
Communication management outline procedures of enacting formal change required to
baseline of project and how performance of work will be managed amongst other members in
team. Lucky cat will always drive towards using different kind of communication tools that help
to interact with its group and other stakeholder and allow them to make discussion based on
challenges and issues that they face due to inequality.
Resources-
It is significance element of Project management plan, mainly related with cost of
research and work. To gain better results and solve issues in workplace Gordon Ramsay
Restaurants required human resource, money to implement and develop plan as well as to
acquire equipment related to work.
Gantt chart-