Equality and Diversity Strategies: Bandon Tiles Ltd Project Report

This report presents a project analysis of Bandon Tiles Ltd, a small company aiming to expand its business while focusing on equality and diversity within the workplace. The report begins with an introduction to the importance of strategies for business success and the need for employee involvement. Task 1 outlines the aims, objectives, and research questions, along with a detailed project management plan, including cost, time, scope, quality, communication, risk, and resources. A Gantt chart and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) are also provided. Task 2 covers small-scale research using both quantitative and qualitative methods, including questionnaires and sampling. The interpretation of findings from the research is presented, followed by recommendations for Bandon Tiles Ltd. Task 3 includes a reflection on the project. The report concludes with a summary of findings and references. The project aims to determine the strategies and initiatives used by the company to maintain equality and diversity, with a case study approach. The research explores the impact of equality, the importance of inclusiveness, and the value of diversity in the workplace.

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Table of Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1) Aims and objectives..............................................................................................................1
P2) Project management plan......................................................................................................2
P3) Gantt chart and WBS............................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P4) Small scale research..............................................................................................................5
P5) Interpretation of findings......................................................................................................7
P6) Recommendations..............................................................................................................11
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
P7) Reflection............................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

TOPIC
“To determine the different type of strategy and initiative which is basically used by the
company in order to maintain equality and diversity inside the workplace.” A case study on
Bandon Tiles Ltd.
INTRODUCTION
The business gain correspondence achievements as per the perfect induction of various
goals and strategy that is required to gain more profit within the certain period of time. In this to
attain better sustainability business uses the different strategies and with support of it try to
accomplish respective position in the marketplace (Bagherzadeh, 2019). It provides support to
the business as in terms of maintaining lead in the market and for that the better involvement of
employee's is more needed. It helps to complete the different projects within the stipulated period
of instance by which working potential and performance both get enhanced. The following report
is based on Bandon Tiles Ltd that is the small company and wants to expands its business over
new places and for that need to work on inclusive and diverseness. The report consist of the
project plan, research, findings, recommendation and evaluation.
TASK 1
P1) Aims and objectives
As Bandon tiles Ltd expands its business thus required the employee's that are more
suitable to imply the certain changes within the working aspects of business. It helps the
company to stabilise its working at new places along with this the accomplishment of target and
establishment of business become more smoother. Thus company emphasised towards equality
and diverseness and with this try to grab the attention of candidates that belongs from different
places but having the talent and skills that is exactly get fits into the working surround of
business (Bjorvatn, 2018).
Aim: “To determine the different type of strategy and initiative which is basically used
by the company in order to maintain equality and diversity inside the workplace.” A case study
on Bandon Tiles Ltd.
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Objectives:
 To determine the different abilities of business to enhance diverseness inside the
workforce.
 To measure the impact of equality among the employees and in company.
 To analyse the importance of inclusiveness and diverseness in the business.
 To analyse the value and advancement that is induced due to equality and diversity.
Research questions:
 The ability of business to enhance diverseness in workforce.
 The impact of equality in company and employee's.
 The importance of inclusiveness and diverseness in company.
 The value of advancement that is produces while using equality and diversity.
P2) Project management plan
It is a document that is constructed to impart more clarity while working as it helps to plan,
control, implement, execute and monitor the task and activities through which the redundancy of
project is reduces (Butler, 2020).
 Cost: It defines the total amount or costing that is needed to induce within the business
and with this researcher uses this to complete the various work elements and for this
research Bandon tiles assigned the amount of £68000 and it consist of following
components:
 Time: It is the total period that is taken by the researcher in order to complete the
research in systematic format and for this researcher need the time period of 3 weeks and
within this instance the better outcomes are developed.
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 Scope: It state the future implementation of the research as per its completion and that is
completely dependent on the dependency of business and implication of new strategy so
as to promote diverse culture (Englund, 2019). Quality: It reflect the usage and advancement that is produced from the completion of
research and for this researcher induce the better changes as per the suitability of project
or to attain the profitable output. Communication: It is a process that is needed for the researcher so as to make interaction
with the employee's and respondents that helps to make effective interpretation and from
this different communication medium are used as like mobile phones, internet, computers
etc. Risk: It is a factor that comes in parallel as per the processing of project and resist the
performance of project for this researcher ensure that all the different activities get
processed with more effectiveness and with this complexity is reduces on timely basis.
 Resources: It is a factor that is based on the various amount of sources that are needed
while completing the research and for this researcher need printing machines, internet
sources, human resource, paper and many others as well (Enkel, 2018).
P3) Gantt chart and WBS
Gantt chart: It is a chart that is represented in the form of bar graph and provide the
briefing of all the different activities and task that is performed within the project management. It
reflect the dependency of all the task that make more easy for researcher to make better
understanding of all the action.
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Work Breakdown structure: It is more helpful for the researcher as it differentiate all
the different task as by making suitable segments in which overall task is divided into the various
slots by which researcher make an eye towards all the task and make appropriate judgement
through which complexities is reduced in effective manner (Foedisch, 2018).
TASK 2
P4) Small scale research
Research is basically an investigation that is induced by the researcher in order to make
better and suitable understanding about some certain topic and with this relative information is
collected that helps to attain specific judgement that provide clear and systematic statements of
specified topic (Heldman, 2018). It is been done by gathering constructive information about
certain facts and figures to end up with effectual endings.
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Quantitative method: It is a method that is been used by the researcher while collecting
the relative information as from the mathematical formulations, statistical interpretation and
analytical implementation and that all is usually done with the support of computational
techniques and tools (Keers, 2018).
Qualitative method: In this method researcher make an analysis about some specified
aspect with the support of unformulated information and statistics and that is done to generate
appropriate underpinning of certain scheme. Primary source: It is a source that reflect the situation in which researcher contain
adequate information as from the formulation of questionnaire, survey, polls in order to
develop authentic result at first time.
 Secondary sources: In this source researcher collects the respondent knowledge and
information as from the data and information that is already published in the marketplace
which is basically in the form of newspapers, articles, magazines, financial reports etc.
Sampling: It is process through which the specified group of people are targeted as from
the overall population and that is to develop the integrated information and for this research the
sample size is 30 (Kokkonen, 2018).
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Do you understand the impact of equality in the company or within the employee's?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Do you think that Bandon Tiles Ltd able to maintain equality and diversity within the
workforce?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Is employee felt more connected towards the company with the prospect of diverseness
and inclusive culture in the working surround?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) How Bandon Tiles Ltd promote equality and diverseness within the business.
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a) By intensify employee involvement
b) Collecting feedback
c) Provide value and importance to workers
Q5) What is the better impact of diversity over the employee of Bandon Tiles Ltd?
a) Progress Creativity
b) Induce job satisfaction
Qualitative questions
Q6) What are the various strategies that is used by the Bandon Tiles Ltd so as to promote
equality inside the working operation of company.
 Training and improvement
 Effective leadership style
Q7) What are the various initiatives that is adopted by Bandon Tiles Ltd so as to bring
equality inside the workplace?
a) By implementing new leadership styles
b) By offering rewards
c) By providing better opportunities
P5) Interpretation of findings
Q1) Do you understand the impact of equality
in the company or within the employee's?
Frequency
Yes 25
No 5
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Yes No
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5
10
15
20
25
30
25
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It is reflected from the above graph that out of the 30 respondents 25 are those that have
understanding and have known about the different impact of equality inside the workforce and
on the other hand the rest 5 didn't have the similar belief and don't understand what equality is all
about. Thus in overall it is stated that most of the employees of Bandon Tiles Ltd have known
about the equality and its impact (Kozak-Holland, 2019).
Q2) Do you think that Bandon Tiles Ltd able to
maintain equality and diversity within the
workforce?
Frequency
Yes 20
No 10
It is underpinned from the graph that out of total 20 are those respondent that believe that
Bandon tiles Ltd is able to implement equality and diversity in side the workforce while the rest
10 didn't believe the same. Thus it is concluded that business must have induce different strategy
that make and promote better culture.
Q3) Is employee felt more connected towards
the company with the prospect of diverseness
and inclusive culture in the working surround?
Frequency
Yes 22
No 8
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Yes No
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5
10
15
20
25
20
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It is summarised that 22 of the employee felt more connected with the company as with
the prospect of diverseness and inclusiveness workforce while on the other hand the 8
respondents didn't have similar point of view.
Q4) How Bandon Tiles Ltd promote equality and
diverseness within the business.
Frequency
By intensify employee involvement 13
Collecting feedback 10
Provide value and importance to workers 7
It is acknowledged from graph that Bandon Tiles Ltd is the one that promote equality and
diverseness inside the working surround of business and for this 13 believe that it intensify the
involvement of employees, 10 believe that it is due to the collection of feedback while the rest 7
believe that it is by providing certain importance and value to employee (Sumner, 2018).
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Yes No
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5
10
15
20
25
22
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By intensify employee involvement
Provide value and importance to workers
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