Managing Successful Business Project (MSBP)

Managing Successful Business
Project (MSBP)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Aims and Objectives...............................................................................................................3
P 2 Project Management Plans....................................................................................................3
P 3 Work Breakdown & Gantt Chart...........................................................................................4
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LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P 4 Research Methodology..........................................................................................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P 5 Analysing data using relevant techniques and tools..............................................................8
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................15
P 7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Background
Equality and diversity in an organisation can be referred as promotion of equality of
opportunity for all the employees in an organisation through diversity and also giving each
employee a chance for growth and advancement without discrimination and free from prejudice.
Having equality and diversity in an organisation is vital for its growth and advancement but there
are various challenges which are faced by companies to manage diversity and equality in a
workplace. In this report Marks and Spence is taken as an organisation, which is a multinational
retailing company of UK. This report discusses about how a company can promote diversity and
equality in its workplace. So, in order to manage diverse culture and promote equality it is
important to formulate various strategies and take various initiatives in order to build diverse and
inclusive workforce within the organisation. Also, strategies should be such that it should have
the capacity to overcome the challenges of diversity and equality. If an organisation is able to
develop a proper strategies it can be beneficial for its growth and development.
LO 1
P1 Aims and Objectives
Aim: To formulate different strategies and initiatives, employed in an organisation to develop
diverse and inclusive workforce- A case study on Marks and Spencer.
Objectives:
 To analyse the benefits of diversity and equality for the organisation.
 To identify different types of initiatives and strategies taken by M&S to build a diverse
and inclusive workforce
 To assess the challenges faced by the company in building diverse culture in an
organisation.
P 2 Project Management Plans
Cost: -cost means that the expenses which are incurred on completing the research. Research is a
project that incurred cost of research which is incurred on the resources required for research
(Beck, 2018). Research will take following
Resources Cost
Stationary 15 pounds

Travelling 75 pounds
Questionnaire print 8 pounds
Internet charges 12 pounds
Electricity bill 20 pounds
Total 130 pounds.
Time: - the research will take time to be completed. For the study is will take most time in
project planning and determination of the needs of the resources. It will take 8 weeks to be
completed starting from 10 august and ends on 5th October.
Quality: - quality of the project is need to meet the objective and aim of the research project. The
quality is mainlined by using the ethics and existing facts. Quality must be maintain in the
research so that it gives the expected results and fulfil the needs of the company.
Communication: -research must be communicate to the respondents in decent manner and
ensure that they understand what the researcher wants to communicate. Also, it communicates to
its supervisors about the project and every step taken in the research so that any change of need
of changes can be taken place.
Risk: - researcher have risk of increase the cost of the project more than estimated cost. also, it
has risk of respondent miss represent the facts and figure also the research may take more time
than expectations of researcher.
P 3 Work Breakdown & Gantt Chart
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Auto
Schedule
d
Project initiation 4 days? Fri 8/23/19 Wed 8/28/19
Auto
Schedule
d
formulation of topic 1 day? Fri 8/23/19 Fri 8/23/19
Auto
Schedule
d
formulation of aim,
objectives and research
questions
3 days Mon 8/26/19 Wed 8/28/19 2
Auto
Schedule
Project planning 14 days Thu 8/29/19 Tue 9/17/19

d
Auto
Schedule
d
Research methodology 4 days Thu 8/29/19 Tue 9/3/19 2,3
Auto
Schedule
d
collection of data 10 days Wed 9/4/19 Tue 9/17/19 5
Auto
Schedule
d
Project execution 12 days Wed 9/18/19 Thu 10/3/19
Auto
Schedule
d
Analysis of data 12 days Wed 9/18/19 Thu 10/3/19 3,5,6
Auto
Schedule
d
interpretation of data 7 days Wed 9/18/19 Thu 9/26/19 6
Auto
Schedule
d
Project closure 24 days Wed 9/4/19 Mon 10/7/19
Auto
Schedule
d
conclusion and
recommendation 3 days Wed 9/4/19 Fri 9/6/19 5
Auto
Schedule
d
reflection 2 days Fri 10/4/19 Mon 10/7/19 8,9

LO 2
P 4 Research Methodology
Research methodologies is the process of research process and methods used to conduct
the research. It is a specific procedure or the techniques used to identify, select, process and
evaluate the information about the research topic (Heilman, Manzi and Braun, 2015). Research
can be divided in two parts qualitative research and quantitative research. Quantitative research
used to quantify problem by the transformed into the numerical data that can be transformed into
using of the statistical data where the qualitative research used to gain an understanding of the
reason, motivation, opinions which are help to develop the insights into the problems or helps to
develop the ideas or opinions. This report is based on the both the types of the research.
Research philosophy: - It is a vast topic and here it the topic in great details. Also, helps
to detail the research details. There can two types in the research on the basis of research
philosophy. The research philosophy of qualitative data is called Interpretivism which means that
the data of the qualitative data interpretive research assumes that access to reality is only
construct through social constructions. Basis for the Interpretivism are language, consciousness,
instruments, share meaning. Quantitative research is called positivism which is based on the
human experience and knowledge where it helps in the view the world with comprising discrete