Managing a Successful Business Project: Equality and Diversity Policies at Argos

This report focuses on the various policies used by Argos to promote equality and diversity in the workplace. It includes the aims and objectives, project management plan, small-scale research, interpretation of findings, and recommendations. The research is based on a case study of Argos, a retailer organization operating in Ireland and the UK.

Unit-6 Managing a
Successful Business
Project

Table of Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1) Aims and objectives..............................................................................................................1
P2) Project management plan......................................................................................................3
P3) Gantt chart and WBS............................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P4) Small scale research..............................................................................................................7
P5) Interpretation of findings......................................................................................................9
P6) Recommendations..............................................................................................................14
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................15
P7) Reflection............................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

TOPIC
“To determine the various policies that is used by the company to translate equality and
diversity in the working employee’s as on the basis of day to day activities.” A case study on
Argos.
INTRODUCTION
The business make more success as per the implications of different strategy and policy
as per the demand and requirement of situation and with the ability of working and achievement
of aim and objectives become more clearer and efficient. It helps to make constructive profit in
the competitive marketplace and with this successful implementation of various strategy and
policy is also be needed. Equality is relative to provide equal platform to all the individual that
belongs from different places, religion, race, culture, gender, background etc. On the other hand
diversity is relative to provide the relative space to employee by which the probability of
achievement of potential that is completely free from all the discrimination and prejudice
(Bagherzadeh, 2019). It helps the business to attract the candidates that belongs from different
places and regions but having the better educational qualification and specified skills and
capabilities by which the achievement of goals and objectives become easier. The above report is
based on Argos that is the retailer organisation and operates its business in Ireland and UK in
addition it is a subsidiary of Sainsbury's. It was founded in 1972 by Richard Tompkins and
having headquartered in Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire, England. The following report
includes the aim and deliverables, project management plan, research based on small-scale,
findings and recommendation.
TASK 1
P1) Aims and objectives
Equality and assortment is the most concerned aspect for the business and with this it is
needed to maintain effective balance in between the different policies by which employee feel
more comfort while working within the business. The translation of different policies is induces
by the business so as to provide the suitable balance in between the daily activities that is
performed by the employee's (Bell, 2018). It support the business to enhance the accountability
of business by which the potential and efficiency about the completion of task is increases. The
research is based on to make the relative changes and modifications that is needed to imply by
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the business as with this the ability and capability of business to retain and attract the better
candidates get improvised through which better values and image of company is reflected in the
marketplace.
Aim: “To determine the various policies that is used by the company to translate equality
and diversity in the working employee’s as on the basis of day to day activities .” A case study
on Argos.
Objectives:
 To gain information about the equality and diverseness inside the workplace.
 To measure the advancement that is gained by business by using equality at workforce.
 To determine the impact of diverseness within the business and on employees as well.
 To understand the policy that is used by company to produce equality and diverseness
among the workforce.
Research questions:
 What is equality and assortment inside the workplace?
 The advancement of equality that is achieved by business?
 The impact of diverseness within the business?
 The policy that is used by company to produce equality and diverseness.
Literature Review
What is equality and assortment inside the workplace?
As per the viewpoint of Ruth Mayhew, 2017, there are different benefits that is processed
by the inducement of equality and diversity as it is based on the different prospect and both are
interwind with each other and promote the providence of equal opportunities to all the workers
(Bjorvatn, 2018). Diversity is vital topic and based on the areas as like race, religion, colour and
trait of different individual that are working inside the business and for this company ensure that
they didn't discriminate any of the employee as per dependability of these aspects. In addition
equality defines the range of gender, disability, equal consideration as regardless of culture, race
etc.
The advancement of equality that is achieved by business?
As per the standpoint of Louise Petty, 2016, equality and diversity is used within the
business as per the aim to promote better accessibility and opportunities to all the employee's by
which same and fair surround is promoted. It is used within the business regardless of the
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number of employee's that are working within the company. It is considerate under the
elimination of advanced opportunities and unlawful discrimination and that all is to promote
healthy interrelationship in between the employee's. It prohibits the culture that is completely
discriminate and allow as well as promote the wider platform to the employee's by which they
have worked with better sufficiency (Butler, 2020). It is used to protect the certain characteristics
as like age, disability, race, religion and many other as well.
The impact of diverseness within the business?
According to the viewpoint of Anja Zojceska, 2018, diverseness is always been more
vital within the business as it helps to take better competitive advantage in the aggressive
marketplace. There are various benefits and that are as it provides the variety of perspectives of
people through which collective innovation and creativity is induces and it helps to gain the
suitable profits. It faster the problem solving capabilities with this the solution of different
problem is processed with more easiness and also reduces the employee turnover and with this
the employee get remain within the company for the longer period of time. It emphasised the
better values and image of company in the marketplace and with this engagement of employee
also get enhanced more in effective format.
The policy that is used by company to produce equality and diverseness.
According to the standpoint of Lynne Callister, 2019, the discrimination at workplaces
induces more concern and focus on the business and its working and under the concept of
diverseness company protect the employee from harassment, bullying, discrimination by which
better sustainability get maintained in the working surround. In this the company identified and
prevent the bias and provide similar platform to all for working. Induces the equality policy and
with this fair treatment in terms of decision-making get embraced (Fernando, 2018). The
objective criteria is used so as to ensure that clear and transparent objectives is provided by
conducting audit and with this supportive culture is promoted.
P2) Project management plan
It is hand written document that consist of all the needed information that is required to
complete the project and that is based on planning, implementation, controlling, executing and
monitoring of task through which better outcomes are conceived within the certain period of
instance.
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 Cost: It is relative to the total amount that is needed to complete the project and for this
Argos developed budget that is assigned to researcher so as to complete the research with
more perfection. For this research the allotted cost is of £68000 as it include different
parameters that is described below:
 Time: It is based on the instance which is require to complete the overall project in
efficient manner and for researcher need the total time of about 3 weeks to complete in
accurate manner (Fleming, 2019). Scope: It is depended on the future aspect and for that researcher ensure that all the
project get accomplished within the timely basis and in parallel all the complexities also
get removed by which the possibilities for company get increases. Quality: It is based on the amount of effectiveness that is produced as after the
completion of project. In this researcher out all of its efforts in order to create the output
which is more relatable to the company and helps to implement better policy in future
period of time. Communication: In this researcher needs to make effective and efficient interaction with
the respondents by which research is completed within timely manner. For this researcher
requires the communication devices as like computer, mobile phones, internet etc. Risk: It is associated with the processing of project and for this researcher is ensure that
all the redundancy about the research is removed and for this make an eye on all activities
by which the probability of risk and those resistance factor get reduces in suitable manner
(Foedisch, 2018).
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 Resources: It is relative to sources those are needed while conducting the research and
for this researcher need the human resource, internet source, printers, paper etc. to
complete the project within the instance.
P3) Gantt chart and WBS
Gantt chart: It is been used to manage the complete project by scheduling all the
performed task and activities and provide the better knowledge about the dependency of current
and scheduled activities (Heldman, 2018). Thus researcher make eye on all task and make
appropriate implementation as per to achieve profitable outcome
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Work Breakdown structure: It assist the researcher to divide the overall project into the
different slot and segment by which the dependency of all the task and activities is established in
effective manner (Kerzner, 2019). Thus more clarity is processed through which better analyses
of all the task is processed and complexities get reduces.
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TASK 2
P4) Small scale research
Research is a formulated investigation that is completely based on the identification of new
information about some specified topic and with this better understanding is generated that helps
to gain more knowledge of specific subject.
Quantitative method: In this an information is collected as from the statistical
formulation, mathematical interpretation and analytical implementation with this support of
various computational tools and techniques.
Qualitative method: In this an information is formulated as from the unstructured
statistics and it is in the form of questionnaire, feedback collection etc. and helps to make
constructive knowledge about convinced topic (Kerzner, 2019). Primary source: In this the information is collected by researcher that is basically as
from questionnaire, survey and have conduced for first time and produce authentic
outcome.
 Secondary sources: In this the data in collected as from the data that is already published
in the market as in the form of magazine, newspapers, articles etc. It help researcher to
ensure that project is processed in systematic manner.
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Sampling: In this researcher target the specific group which is integrated of overall
population and than complete research is processed on that group and the sample size of this
research is 30 (Kokkonen, 2018).
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Did you known what is equality all about inside the workplace?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Do you think that Argos induce the better strategy while promoting the diverse culture
inside the business?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Did employee feel that comfort while working within the business that is related to
diverseness?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) What are the different ways through which business promote equality inside the working
operations?
a) By Undiscriminating recruitment
b) By render miscellanea work
Q5) What are the initiative that is taken by Argos while inducing equality in the business?
a) By deepen the engagement of employee's
b) By collecting feedback from workers
c) By providing more values to employee
Q6) What is the positive impacts of equality and diversity within the workers of business?
a) Advancement of innovation
b) Improvise the image
c) Enhance advantage of competition
Q7) What are the translation of diverseness in Argos?
a) Advances execution
b) Brings satisfaction
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Qualitative questions
Q8) State the strategies that is induced by Argos in order to translate equality and diversity in
business?
 Training and improvement
 Effective leadership style
Q9) What kind of initiative is taken by Argos to intensify the impact of equality and
assortment?
a) By changing is style of leadership
b) By providing rewards as per performance
c) By circulating equal opportunities among all
P5) Interpretation of findings
Q1) Did you known what is equality all about
inside the workplace?
Frequency
Yes 24
No 6
It is shown from the above graph that most of the employee's are in favored that they
have known about the equality in the company while there are some of those employee as well
who doesn't have much knowledge about the concept of equality. Thus it is measured that Argos
employee's has better underpinning about equality (Paschek, 2018).
Q2) Do you think that Argos induce the better
strategy while promoting the diverse culture
Frequency
9
Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
24
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inside the business?
Yes 23
No 7
Argos induces better policy inside the business that is used to promote equality with the
support of strategies as well and in this 23 of employee are in favour that business make effective
use of strategy and 7 of the employee are not in favour about the inducement of strategy.
Q3) Did employee feel that comfort while
working within the business that is related to
diverseness?
Frequency
Yes 20
No 10
10
Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25 23
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It is concluded from the graph that most of the employee's felt more comfort while
working in Argos and that is generated due to diverseness and it include 20 number of
respondents while there are around 10 employees that doesn't have same belief.
Q4) What are the different ways through which
business promote equality inside the working
operations?
Frequency
By Undiscriminating recruitment 15
By render miscellanea work 15
It is informed from the above graph that Argos has using different ways to promote the
equality while working and in this 15 of the employee believe that it is by making
undiscriminating recruitment and rest 15 believe that it is based on the various variety of work
and that is provided as per the qualification and experience (Pearlson, 2019).
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Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25
20
10
By Undiscriminating recruitment By render miscellanea work
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16 15 15

Q5) What are the initiative that is taken by Argos
while inducing equality in the business?
Frequency
By deepen the engagement of employee's 15
By collecting feedback from workers 8
By providing more values to employee 7
It is reflected from the graph that there are different initiative that is taken by the
company so as to promote equality within the business and in this 15 of the employee believe
that it is due to the better engagement of employee towards the work, other 8 believe that it is
due by collecting feedback under which different problem of employee get noticed and rest 7
believe it is due to providing better values to employee's.
Q6) What is the positive impacts of equality and
diversity within the workers of business?
Frequency
Advancement of innovation 10
Improvise the image 8
Enhance advantage of competition 12
12
By deepen the engagement of employee's
By providing more values to employee
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16 15
8
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It is recognised from the above graph that there are various positive impact of equality
and diverseness among the employees and the company and in this 10 of employee's are in
favoured that it is due to the advancement of innovation, 8 believe that it improvise the market
image of business and rest 12 believe that it enhances the competition advantage.
Q7) What are the translation of diverseness in
Argos?
Frequency
Advances execution 16
Brings satisfaction 14
13
Advancement of innovation
Improvise the image
Enhance advantage of competition
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
10
8
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It is analysed from graph that diverseness has better translation in the Argos and in this
16 of employee believe that it advances the execution while the rest 14 believe that it is by
inducing satisfaction among the working employees.
Q8) State the strategies that is
induced by Argos in order to
translate equality and diversity in
business?
Explanation
Training and improvement It is a strategy through which Argos induce the
different strategies and under this have provide relative
training and development to employee's by which there
working skills and abilities get advanced thus the
capabilities to achieve its objectives and target get
enhanced (Sumner, 2018).
Effective leadership style The leader and manager of Argos used the different
styles of leadership and with this mainly focus on
participative style under which try to enhance the
participation level of employees such that work get
attained with more sufficiency and long terms benefits
are achieved on timely basis.
Q9) What kind of initiative is taken Explanation
14
Advances execution Brings satisfaction
13
13.5
14
14.5
15
15.5
16
16.5
16
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by Argos to intensify the impact of
equality and assortment?
By changing is style of leadership It is an initiative under which the leader has changes
their working style as per the demand and need of
situation. In this the Argos employee's get worked
with better suitability and also get motivated such
that productive performance is achieved.
By providing rewards as per
performance
It is the better strategy with this the company provide
the rewards and other benefits to the employee and
that is completely based on the working performance
(Tidd, 2018). It not only motivates the employee but
also emphasised the working capabilities as well.
By circulating equal opportunities
among all
Argos always get ensure that all the employee's get
equal opportunities to intensify the growth and
development of business. In this priority is provided
to the indiscriminating culture that is free from all
the issues along with this better work culture is
promoted.
P6) Recommendations
As per the consideration of preceding research the basic and deep knowledge about the
equality and diversity within the business get processed and under this all the respective
challenges and issues also get managed on time to get procure from large and negative impacts.
There are both positive and negative impact of equality but it is needed that it is managed
appropriately through which the effectiveness of outcome is not affected (Yıldırım, 2019). There
are few recommendation for Argos that is as explained below as:
 It is important that employee get equal and similar platform in order to enhance its skills,
abilities and experiences and for this the transparency in the business working is
maintained through which it is easy to get over from different complex situations.
 It is vital that clear communication is induced within the business in between all the
working departments and level by which the similar information is processed. In this all
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the respective information is circulated among the employees with this achievement of
target and objectives become easier and comfy.
 The encouragement and involvement of employees is more essential and with this have
make better interaction with the employees such that a sense of connectedness and
belongingness is developed that emphasised the team work and probability of attainment
of work.
TASK 3
P7) Reflection
The following research is conducted through me and with this I make and generate a lot
more knowledge and information about the equality and diversity with its importance as
compared to beneficiary impacts on the business. It is the vital prospect and under this it is
needed and essential to manage the fairness among the employee such that not only the working
quality but performance of all the members also get emphasised. Equality and assortment
induces by the company so as to provide the equal platform to all the employees by which they
could easily enhance their skills and abilities. I have also acknowledge that it is the profitable
aspect for the business and with this employee also feel more motivated thus the working
efficiency and sufficiency get increases. It is quite easier for me while making selective
coordination in between the different activities that is needed to perform under the project
management and it is done with the support of Gantt chart or work breakdown structure. As it
helps to make more clarity of about individual task under which repetitive modification get done
as per the need of the condition. In addition to this I have also faced some challenges while
making interaction with the employees as their behaviour get changes as per the work pressure of
varied working condition thus to interpret the effective understanding it is hard to make certain
changes. But it is formulated that the company induces different strategies and take adequate and
needed initiative in order to make certain modification. As per the completion of project have
make collective cognition and apprehension about importance of fairness and diverseness along
with this company also promote ethnic and valuable management. The organisation hierarchy is
the biggest support of equality and support the better and fluent flow of services. I have worked
in with the help of project management plan and with this make suitable implementation of
resources, quality, cost, time, scope etc. through which constructive changes is inserted with this
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the replicate modification get done in systematic manner. In this the interpretation and analytical
skills of mine helps to make comfortable changes as per the requirement of project execution and
with this all the complex situations is balanced and profitable as well as valuable outcome is
conceived within timely basis. To induce the satisfactory changes I have use the project tools and
with support of it able to attain productive outcomes. I get the support of questionnaire and with
the help of it able to collect the appropriate information which is needed to conclude the impact
of equality and assortment within the business. With this I am trying to remain more composed
and calm as per the dependency of work with this make specific decision making along with the
support of academic skills through which perfect result is attained on timely basis.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that business become successful as per the
implications of different strategies within the stipulated period of time and ensure that it is
always be in favour of growth and development of business. Equality and diverseness is
translated to all employees with the inducement of various strategies and with this
accomplishment of daily activities become more effective.
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