What sort of strategy and initiatives that companies put to build the diverse and inclusive workforce? A case study on Debenhams

Unit-6-Managing a Successful
Business project

Table of Contents
Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Project aims and objectives...............................................................................................1
P2 Produce of project management plan................................................................................3
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart...................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2) Small scale research by apply of primary and secondary methods.................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P6 Recommendation as result of findings and data analysis................................................16
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P7) Reflect on the value of undertaking the projects to meet stated objectives...................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

TITLE
“What sort of strategy and initiatives that companies put to build the diverse and
inclusive workforce”? A case study on Debenhams.
INTRODUCTION
Managing a successful business includes the development, implementation and the
execution of the different policy and strategy in order to organize the business in systematic
manner and ensure that business attain its goals and objectives in timely manner. The business
become more successful if they implies the better structure in order to follow the target and
ensure that their working performance keep on increasing by which the company could gain
higher competitive advantage (Bell, 2018). In this the company must get use the diverse and
inclusive workforce as the diverse will defines the different group of people that belong from the
different places, regions, race etc while inclusive defines the environment that values the entire
individual on the basis of their abilities and skills. This report is based on the Debenhams that is
the British multinational retailer and has operated their departmental stores in the Denmark and
UK. The company was founded in the year 1778 by William Clark and have dealt with the
products as like accessories, fashion clothing, toys, shoes, home and furniture etc and have work
with the 25000 numbers of employee. This report includes the project report, findings and the
recommendation with reflection.
TASK 1
P1 Project aims and objectives
To measure the strategy and initiative that has been taken by the Debenhams about to
build the diverse and inclusive within the workforce. As all the companies will try to work with
the most talented and skilled workforce and in this they have induce different strategy in order to
attract the most talented workforce within the business. In this Debenhams also get attract the
skilled employee and with this have enhance the working ability of the business.
Aim- “What sort of strategy and initiatives that companies put to build the diverse and
inclusive workforce”. The Debenhams has accepted the diverse and inclusive workforce and
under this they have enhance the level of participation of the employee by thus they have achieve
more success and continuous growth (Tidd, 2018).
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Objectives
 To collect added information about the diverse and inclusive employees.
 To compute the usefulness of the diverse strategy that are used by Debenhams
 To enumerate the worth and return of the diverse and inclusive workforce.
Research questions:
 What is the significance of diverse and inclusive workforce in the company?
 The different strategies used by the company to promote diverse and inclusiveness.
 What is the importance of diverse and inclusive inside the workforce?
Literature Review
What is the significance of diverse and inclusive workforce in the company?
As per the viewpoint of Anja Zojceska, 2018, the diversity includes the wide range of
individual that belongs from different places including, age, colour, religion, language, race etc.
It is something that all the companies have strived to get achieve that and it helps to improves the
reputation of the company and that is the ultimate goals of the company. The diverse surround
provides the tangible benefits to the company as like employee engagement, increases profit etc.
The different strategies used by the company to promote diverse and inclusiveness.
As per the viewpoint of Tom Wells, 2018, the workplace inclusion is more helpful for the
employee to feel safer while working in the modern workplace and diverse team. The companies
often equate the workplace inclusion and the diversity as it challenge the unconscious bias in
which the male and female all equate as one (Polonsky, 2018). It build the mentoring community
in which more of the employee has that leadership skills by which better culture will get
promote.
What is the importance of diverse and inclusive inside the workforce?
As per the viewpoint of Scott Ballina, 2018, employees are the lifeblood of the company
and in this the diverse team all the employee have the unique set of skills and capabilities and
when all get collect together then they have share their experience and make something new by
which the success and profit rate of the company will get enhanced more. The diverse and
inclusive workforce thrive the business and make more success in which the larger number of
employee of different prospect get together and make the positive change.
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P2 Produce of project management plan
The project management plan defines the overall project need as like the planning,
controlling, execution, monitoring, implementing the different activities by which better result
get achieved (Hopkinson, 2018). It is more helpful as it helps to recognise the risk factor that
resists the performance and with this the valuable result gets achieved in systematic manner.
Project plan
Aim and deliverables: The project aim is to attain the effective outcomes by inducing
different strategy by taking more initiative in order to develop the diverse and inclusive
workforce.
Scope: It will defines the outcomes and the capacity of the business to get maintain the
diverse and inclusive in the employee by which they could achieve more profit within the timely
basis as by completing the task in appropriate manner.
Project cost: It includes the total cost that gets associated with the different activities that get
performed in the completion of the project and in this £60 get assigned to complete the project.
It defines the net cost that is interlinked while completing the project as to get accomplish the
ordinal project as in that £10 is associated with the travelling cost and £50 get related to
collection the data
Travelling £10
Half day in data collection – time off from
work
£50
Total £60
Time: It will defines the total time that will taken by the researcher to complete the research
in adequate period of time and in this the researcher need the time period of 4 months and under
that produce the better plan for the business (Pearlson, 2019).
Quality: It is relative to the outcome that get produce as after the accomplishment of the
project and in this the research will ensure that all the resource will get utilised with more
perfection and under this the better result get conceived that is beneficial for the Debenhams to
get make suitable changes in their business.
Communication: In is the factor under which the researcher will collect the relevant detail
and information from the respondent by ensuring that the clear data will get collected. In this the
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researcher makes the valid interaction with the candidates with the help of questionnaire,
telephonic conversation, collection of feedback, internet, interview etc.
Information Receiver Method of
communication
Sender
Aims and
objectives
Students Email Researcher
Research
methodology
Students Email Researcher
Data collection
and analyses
Students Email Researcher
Risk: It is the aspect that comes with the success but in this the researcher make the profit by
reducing the complexity and get divide the overall task into segments and keep an eye on all the
activities by which the sustain outcome get attained from each task (Biemans, 2018).
Resources: These are the different needed sources that is more helpful to complete the
research in satisfactory manner as like the phone, net connection, human resource, printers,
books etc. It will help to perform the research in timely manner by managing the suitability of
the business.
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart
Gantt chart: This chart will be used to get divide the overall task into the different
activities by which all the task has been completed under the assigned time period and with this
more accurate result will get obtained (Appelbaum, 2018). It is a chart that get used to make
more profitable aspect under which the researcher make the sufficient decision making by which
the better changes get induce within the project in which the sufficient result will get achieved.
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