The impact of the global pandemic on accelerating workplace transformation

Unit 11 Research Project
Proposal
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Research Proposal Form
Student
Name
Student ID
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Proposed
Title
"The impact of the global pandemic on accelerating workplace
transformation"
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Aim: "The aim of this study is to determine the impact of Covid-19 on the digital workplace
transformation. A study on Unilever."
Research objectives
 To understand the meaning of workplace transformation.
 To analyse the impact of global pandemic within the digital workplace transformation
of Unilever.
 To examine the different issues faced by Unilever at the time of having workplace
transformation in the company.
Research Questions
 What is the meaning of workplace transformation?
 What is the impact of global pandemic within the digital workplace transformation of
Unilever?
 Which issues faced by Unilever at the time of having workplace transformation in the
company?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project
The main reason for choosing this study is to make a deep examine and analyse the meaning
of workplace transformation and its impact through the global pandemic. This study further
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helps in managing the personal and professional growth of the individual (Mattioli, 2021). In
the context of professional development, the main advantage of the present study is to provide
a significant growth in about the workplace transformation in the growth of the company and
its impact of global pandemic. This will be helpful for the researcher to opt right strategies for
the future business and try to work with more significant ways in an organisation like
Unilever. Whereas in the context of personal development, it helps in improving
communication skills, data analysis, research skills and growth in different sectors.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or
hypothesis:
What is the meaning of workplace transformation?
As per the view of Barnes (2020), workplace transformation is basically used for the remote
offices as it is related to the productivity of business and public sector as well. The changes
happened in the workplaces transformation due to the pandemic also make a straight impact
on the workforces which is helpful for make a direct impact on the growth of the employees
(Migliore, 2021). Many of the organisation are helpful for generate different platform and
helpful for generalised the statement and work to up-skilled the employee's performance
(What Workplace Transformation Means Now, 2020). Many of the organisation need to
rethink about workflow and design of existing to help attract the new just entering into the
acquired workplaces.
What is the impact of global pandemic within the digital workplace transformation of
Unilever?
As per the view of Gopisetty (2019), Digital transformation transformation for the growth of
trending to accelerate the growth with the Covid-19 pandemic. The modern digital workplaces
transformation is helpful for considering different platform and make a substitutive growth in
modern, flexible and traditional workplaces. This make huge impact on the Unilever by
working analytics and have the diversifying aspect are related to growth and management
purposes (COVID-19 brought workplace transformation and digitization to the fore, 2019).
Which issues faced by Unilever at the time of having workplace transformation in the
company?
As per the view of Lomas (2021), The company faced major issues which are related to
growth to work with different perspective. It is considered that the company needs to be work
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and make significant growth in the business activities and productivity of the employees.
Some major challenges are related to performance management, customer growth and
understanding, process of digitalization and work with the top line growth in the organisation
(Top 5 Digital Transformation Challenges Impacting Businesses, 2021). All of these
challenges are faced by Unilever and their employees when they are shifting towards the
digital workplace transformation.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the research project
Task name Start date Finish date
Introduction 01-10-21 14-10-21
Aims and Objectives 15-10-21 11-11-21
Literature Review 12-11-21 30-121-21
Research
Methodologies
31-12-21 13-01-22
Submission of
Proposal
14-01-22 20-01-22
Data collection 21-02-22 31-03-22
Data analysis 01-04-22 28-04-22
Conclusion 29-04-22 12-05-22
Reflection 13-05-22 26-05-22
Submission of report 27-05-22 02-06-22
Milestone one: _________________
Target date (set by tutor): _________________
Milestone two: _________________
Target date (set by tutor): __________________
Gantt Chart
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