Unit-6 Project: Strategies for a Diverse Workforce at Morrison's

This report analyzes Morrison's supermarket's strategies for fostering a diverse and comprehensive labor force. The project begins by defining aims and objectives, including determining the company's approach to diversity and inclusion. It outlines a project management plan, work breakdown structure, and Gantt chart to organize the research process. The research employs both primary and secondary methods to gather data on Morrison's initiatives. The findings are then presented using appropriate tools and techniques, leading to recommendations for enhancing diversity and inclusion within the company. The report also includes a reflection on the project's value in meeting its stated objectives, offering insights into the benefits of a diverse workforce and the strategies that can be employed to achieve it. The report also incorporates literature review, research questions, and advantages of a diverse workforce to get a better understanding of the topic.

Unit-6 Managing a Successful
Business Project

Table of Contents
Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1) Devise project aims and objectives..................................................................................1
P2) Produce a project management plan................................................................................3
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart..................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P4) Carry out small scale research applying primary and secondary methods......................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5) At hand findings and data using appropriate tools and technique...................................9
P6) Communicate appropriate recommendation as result of findings and data analysis.....15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P7) Reflect on the value of undertaking the projects to meet stated objectives...................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

TOPIC
“To determine the category of Strategies and proposal that is used by the company to
making the diverse and comprehensive labour force”. A casing learns on Morrison’s.
INTRODUCTION
Diverse and comprehensive labour force imitates the undertaking of the business
throughout which they could show their respond and practices that supports the diversity within
the workplace. It reflects the tendency of the company to get recruits the people on the basis of
their skills and talent not on the basis of region, culture, age, gender, background etc. It shows
the behaviour of the company towards their employee through which they could attract the larger
number of expert and brilliant workforce within the business (Brimhall, 2018). It creates the
strong understanding of the employee and they could believe and live all together and act as the
team through which they the best and creative outcomes will be generated on timely manner. It is
more helpful for the organisation as well in which they will get the supreme talented people that
are having the best experience and more stability by which they could imparts more innovation
and effective changed within the working style of the company. This report is based on the
Morrison that is the largest supermarket in UK and having the headquartered in Bradford, West
Yorkshire, England. They will work with the 11000 number of employees in 498 numbers of
stores that are located within the different areas. This report includes the aims, objective of
project, the project management plan, WBS and Gantt chart and a small scale research with
reflection.
TASK 1
P1) Devise project aims and objectives
The Diverse and comprehensive labour force reflects the positive approach that is used by
the company to emphasis the working culture and the ability of the business. The diverse
environment brings a lot of motivation within the employee by which they could make the
validate improvisation that is always be in the favour of the business. It helps the company to
build the enthusiasm and zeal within the employee and it reflects in the performances of them by
which the ultimate profit has been gained by the business (Clancy, 2019).
Aim: “To determine the category of Strategies and proposal that is used by the company
to making the diverse and comprehensive labour force”. A casing learns on Morrison’s.
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Objectives:
 To increase more information regarding the diverse and comprehensive personnel.
 To find out the different strategy and proposal those are taken by the company to promote
diverse and comprehensive workforce.
 To analyse the advantage of diverse and comprehensive workforce within the business.
Research questions:
 What is a diverse and wide-ranging workforce in company?
 Different strategy will used by the company to induce diverse and comprehensive
personnel.
 What are the advantages of diverse and comprehensive personnel?
Literature Review
What is a diverse and wide-ranging workforce?
According to the viewpoint of Sharon Florentine, 2019, diverse and inclusive must drive
the innovative results within the company but on the other hand there is more industry that is
failure to attract the diverse talent within their company (Davies, 2019). There are several other
companies that wants to attract the diverse talent thus they always shape up their policies and
inclusive programs that make the change and that might be challenging but rewarding as well. In
this many of the companies will enact that they induce the change and with that they delivers the
value while there are many other as well those could has the homogenous workforce (Diversity
and inclusion: 8 best practices for changing your culture, 2019). It helps to establish a sense of
belongings for all the employees by which all will share the best practices.
Different strategies that are used by the company to induce diverse and inclusive workforce
According to the viewpoint of Katle Reynolds, 2017, the promotion of diverse and
inclusiveness within the workforce is the most suitable way to foster the global nature of the
company and the open minded capability of the business. It helps to make the better
understanding of the different customers, clines, employees, colleagues all across the world. It
helps the company to make the workforce even more interesting that enrich the personality of
each individual that are linked within the business(5 strategies for promoting diversity in the
workplace, 2017). It commits to boost the competency culture in which the people are more
concern towards the company and makes their best effort to enhance the positive culture. It is the
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activities that seek the new perspective and ideas within the business that helps to present the
creative delivery to the customer for continuous period of time.
What are the advantages of diverse and comprehensive workforce?
According to the viewpoint of David Cusick, 2018, if the business will uses and flourish
the recent business environment there is the need to foster the diverse and comprehensive labour
force. There are different benefits of that as like it helps to recruit more talent within the
company as it attract the job seekers that are as from the different background and it also builds
the reputation of the company (4 benefits of a diverse, inclusive workforce, 2018). If the
company select the candidate that has the best and multiple skills that realm the talent acquisition
and it pushes the limitation and attract the top candidates. It reaps the awards of the innovation as
if company offer the candidate that belong from same background it leads the less productive
and the genuine sight will be limit (de Aquino, 2018). Thus the inclusive behaviour fosters the
new ideas that results in more innovation.
P2) Produce a project management plan
The project management plan reflects the temporary and the one time endeavour that is
conducted by the company to induce the new product and service that brings the beneficiary
inputs within the business and added more value in the collective efforts of the employees. It
includes the set of activities that are used to meet the objective of the project in systematic
manner. It is a piece of work that consist the detailing of each and every activity that is
performed to accomplish the particular project and that are as defined below as:
 Cost: It includes the certain amount of cost that is associated within the completion of the
project. It is more profitable aspect for the company by which the company will allocate
or assigned the specific amount to the particular activity to gain the better profit within
the detailed period of time or within the adequate budget (Fogarty, 2018). It is more
needed as it provides the estimation funding that is required to accomplish the overall
project with more beneficiary outcomes. In this the company will provides the £68000 of
fund to the researcher to conduct the research in efficient way.
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 Time: It defines the adequate limit of time that is required to get accomplish the overall
task with more efficiency. It is used to make the sufficient result within the time by which
more efficient reliability will get induced within the business. It is necessary to assign the
time to each activity by which the particular activity will get completed with more
perfection. The overall time that is required for this research is of 4 weeks under which
this research has been performed.
 Scope: It reflects the outcome that is achieved by accomplishing of the result by fulfil of
research. It is the collective approach that is the integrated result of time, cost, resources,
features, requirements and basic utilisation of sources (Gordon, 2018). It could be
attained by making the effective input to control and monitors the different aspect of
research.
 Quality: It shows the achievable aspects of the research project that has been utilised by
the company after completing the research. The research has been completed by the
collected effort of the researcher in which they could amass the relative in sequence as of
the different sources in command to attaining the valuable outcomes.
 Communication: It is the better source through which the information has been collected
and transferred from one party to another in an effective manner. It helps to gain the
relative outcomes from the different source and ensures that the outcome will be achieved
that is more relative for the employees. It helps to bring the more connectivity within the
different employees by which they could attain the goals and target that result in better
conclusion that is in the favour of the business.
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 Risk: It is the form that gets linked with the success as much the risk has been taken the
ability or probability of attaining the heights will get increased. The research could find
the different risk within the project and after the accomplishment of the project that have
covert a lot of risk into the better opportunities for the business and by that they could
gain the better heights and more success (Ling, 2018).
 Resources: These are the sources that are obligatory to get complete the research project
and for this the company will gain the indirect profit. It is needed to make the effective
execution of all the relevant inputs that all together make usable output that helps the
Company to generate better feasibility within their business.
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart
Gantt chart: It reflects the overall time that has been taken by each and every activity that
is performs within the research as by the researcher. It is on the form of bar graph representation
in which the appropriate time that is associated within each activity will be shown by which
more clarity will be induced within the business and for the researcher as well. It could be used
to manage the performance and durance of each task and ensure that it will be completed within
opportune manner.
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Work Breakdown structure: It reflects the hierarchical rotting that is deliverable-
oriented of the overall work that is implementing for the completion of project it is used to create
the required deliverables and to accomplish the objectives of the project in satisfactory manner
(O’Donovan, 2018). It organises the compass that is related to the project and a process to
segment the project into more manageable components.
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TASK 2
P4) Carry out small scale research applying primary and secondary methods
Research be a systematic investigation of the different study material that are used to
accomplish the major requirement of project and it is used to attain the better result in order to
establish the facts and figures to make the new conclusion. It is performed by the researcher to
undertake the creative findings and to enhance the knowledge of about the particular aspect.
There are some diverse research types as like primary and secondary in which the result will be
formed as like qualitative and the quantitative (Panicker, 2018).
Quantitative method: The purpose of this is to describe the overall situation and gain the
beneficiary prospects and it is the process that is more primarily inductive and used to formulate
the hypothesis. It is a text based approach in which the experience knowledge will be viewed and
it is in the form of tabular information, mathematical formulation etc. There will be no statistical
test will be contained that is unstructured or semi structured. The optimised result will be taken
by conducting the questionnaire and it will ask to the other people.
Qualitative method: It is a research that is linked within the statements and it is the
primarily deductive process in which the conclusion will be developed on the basis of pre
specified concepts. In the statistical tools will be used to measure the analysis that is largely
depending on the measurement device.
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 Primary source: It is the information that is composed for the very first time and it is by
the researcher to get the validate enquiry of some specified topic. In this the data will be
collected in the form of specific questions and provides confidential information as it
takes a lot of time as well.
 Secondary sources: It is the data that is collected from the researcher from the previously
available information that power be as from the journals, broadsheet, financial
statements, articles, books etc. It helps to get confirmed that research will be conducted in
satisfactory way (Rao, 2018).
Sampling: It is a method or a process through which the predetermined observation will be
collected from the larger number of candidates from the population. In this the research used the
sample size of 30.
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Is Morrison’s has the employ of miscellaneous range of people?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Do your company permit all the employees to commemorate holidays suitably?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Does your workplace has the diverse and inclusiveness?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) How your company treated the entire diverse employee?
a) Indiscriminate recruitment
b) Having variety of work
Q5) What do you mean by diverse employees?
a) Engaged employees
b) Include in decision making
c) Valued indiscriminately
Q6) Is diversity and inclusive in workforce is crucial inside your company?
a) Increased innovations
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b) Reputation of company
c) Competitive edge
Q7) What do you think about the impact of diverse and comprehensive labour force?
a) Improved performance
b) Increased job satisfaction
Q8) What are the different importance of miscellaneous and comprehensive workforce within the
company?
a) augmented efficiency
b) enlarged employee maintenance
c) Better brand image
Qualitative questions
Q9) Define the different strategy that is used by the company to measure the diverse and
inclusive workforce?
 Training and development
 Participative control
Q10) How these strategies will be implemented within the company?
a) transform in leadership style
b) presentation appraisals
c) equivalent opportunity to all
Q11) Recommendation
TASK 3
P5) At hand findings and data using appropriate tools and technique
Q1) Is Morrison’s has the employ of
miscellaneous range of people?
Frequency
Yes 25
No 5
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Yes
No
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: It is noticed from the above graph that company has the diverse culture
and out of 30 respondents 25 believes the same while the rest didn’t has the same feeling.
Q2) Does your workplace has the employ of
diverse range of people?
Frequency
Yes 20
No 10
Yes
No
0 5 10 15 20 25
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: It is noticed from the above graph that Morrison’s has the diverse range
of employee and out of 30 respondents 20 has shared the same norm while rest 10 didn’t.
Q3) Does your workplace has the diverse and Frequency
10