Unit6 Managing a Successful Business Project

Managing a Successful
Business Project
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK A...........................................................................................................................................5
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................5
P1 Producing research aims and objectives.................................................................................5
P 2 Project management plan including cost, time, resources.....................................................6
P3 Producing work break down structure and Gantt chart..........................................................7
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................8
P4 Small scale research applying primary and secondary methods............................................8
Research methodologies..................................................................................................................8
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................11
P5 Key findings and data using appropriate tools.....................................................................11
P6 Recommendations results of findings.................................................................................17
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................18
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................18
TASK B.........................................................................................................................................18
Personal performance review....................................................................................................18
TASK C.........................................................................................................................................20
TASK D.........................................................................................................................................20
Project Log Book.......................................................................................................................20
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................21
.REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................21
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REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................22
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TOPIC: Issues and challenges arise out of diversity in the workplace and measurements to
resolve them.
INTRODUCTION
The actual meaning of diversity is to understand that each individual is unique and have different
skills and characteristics and recognize individual differences Diversity at workplace have
several benefits but on the other hand, it can create several problems like communication
barriers, misunderstanding, generation gaps etc. There are several ways of developing diversity
in an effective manner which can solve all problems that arise due to equality at workplace
(Barak, 2016).
Background of the study
This study is based on Selco Builders Warehouse that is the original self select builders
merchant in building material industry. It is a big company as it is operating over 60 locations
across England & Wales. It is mainly known for its qualitative real trade products and services at
affordable prices. It has several internal and external stakeholders that includes: Customers,
Builders, Plasterers and the Sparky. It has approximate 5000 employees. This company wants to
get a research report on some issues that arise out of equality as well as diversity in teh
workplace by research assistant of McLeod and partners.
This present research is going to show some main aim and objectives that is being developed
by researcher in the context of Selco Builders Warehouse. For accomplishing all pre determined
objectives, researcher will held an effective research by following a sequence of steps. Project
management plan includes cost, resources, time that shows estimated time, all required resources
as well as cost which will be required in conducting this research. It will also show the
importance of research methodologies that shows the type of approach selected by research as
per the topic. Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart also plays an important role as it shows
the real time and activities of this whole research.
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TASK A
LO 1
P1 Producing research aims and objectives
Aims and Objectives
Aim
“To identify issues related to diversity and equality at workplace and measurements
of solutions. A case study on Selco Builders Warehouse”
Objectives:
 To identify the concept and meaning of diversity and equality.
 To analyse issues that occur out of diversity in Selco Builders Warehouse.
 To identify some critical impacts of diversity and equality.
 To recommend some ways to solve diversity and equality related issues for Selco
Builders Warehouse
Research Questions:
1. What is the meaning of diversity?
2. What are some issues faced by Selco Builders Warehouse related to diversity and
equality?
3. What impacts does workplace diversity create for employees and Selco Builders
warehouse company.
4. How diversity issues can be resolved?
Rationale:
Diversity and equality is the main term that is creating some problems as well as some
benefits for organizations. The main reason of selecting this topic of diversity is to prevent
organizations against all those issues created by diversity by providing them some solutions. This
topic is the common topic which can be beneficial at academic as well as professional field.
Research problem:
At the time of conducting research there are several types of problem have to face by
researcher. Shortage of time and lack of sources of finance, human resources, effective technical
staff that can help researcher in research and development about in identifying issues related to
diversity and equality are some types of research problem. Rather than internal factors there are
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some external factors that can also create some problems in the path of success of research such
as climate and weather changes, resistance of participants pr sample selected for questionnaire.
P 2 Project management plan including cost, time, resources.
Project management plan plays a vital role in conducting research. With the help of project
management plan, researcher can estimate cost, time that can be used in completing whole
research.
Cost: Cost is an important element of PMP. In this step, researcher estimates of cost and
all expenses that can occurring conducting this research. For conducting this research estimated
cost will be £ 30,000 including all expenses like research, development, questionnaire, human
resources, technical tools etc.
Scope: Scope shows the importance and limits to which researcher as well as the company can
use this research project. This is also an important part to see the importance by researcher. This
topic of diversity is on the top and hot issue in an organization. This topic and research can be
helpful at academic and commercial level (Nicholas and Steyn, 2017).
Time: Time is also called an important element of this PMP that helps researcher in
competing the research on the time and deadline given by teh company. In this step, scholar
estimates time of completing this research in a successful manner. Estimated time of this
researcher can be 20-30 days.
Quality: Quality is one of the main element of project management plan that shows the
effectiveness of research conducted by scholar. It is important for researcher to maintain the best
quality while conducting researcher. For maintaining and creating a qualitative research,
researcher will use several quality control tools like KPI etc.
Communication: There are several communication tools that can be used by researcher
in the research project. The main aim of using communications tools is to communicate and
contact with customers and other people that are involved directly and indirectly with this
research project. For this research, scholar will use E-mail, Social media platforms to getting
information.
Risk: Risk analysis and measurements is also important. Researcher has to face several
risk while conducting research. Risk of shortage of fiancé source, lack of information via
primary and secondary sources, ineffective human resources etc. For solving these problems,
researcher will use balance score card.
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