How Companies Respond to Equality and Diversity: A Project Analysis

This project investigates how businesses, specifically Tea Traders, are addressing equality and diversity concerns, with a focus on the gender divide in leadership. The project begins with an introduction to the importance of equality and diversity in a global business environment, highlighting the negative impacts of gender inequality in leadership roles. The project aims to determine actions taken by companies to reduce the impact of gender divide. The project objectives include understanding the concept of equality and diversity in business, identifying issues arising from inappropriate assessments, exploring company actions to reduce gender divide, and determining the impact of gender divide on employee performance. The project employs a project management plan that covers scope, time, cost, quality, communication, risk, and resources, along with a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart for project execution. The project also includes references to support its findings.

Managing a Successful
Business Project
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Project aims and objectives.........................................................................................................1
Project management plan............................................................................................................2
Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart...............................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Title: How have companies’ responded to current issues of equality and diversity such as
gender divide in leadership in the workplace?
INTRODUCTION
In a global business environment, equality and diversity play a significant role because
there are different people are work at a common platform for accomplishing their targets. Thus,
it is important for company to promote quality and diversity at working area to ensure that each
and every employee have access to the same opportunities and at the same platform and also get
fair treatment. This can be assist in improving overall performance of employees at workplace by
developing positive relation. Now a day, gender divide in leadership is one of the major issue
that company is facing as it directly affects the employee’s performance within the company
(Georgeac and Rattan, 2019). In this, women employee gets less opportunities to lead workers at
workplace. Therefore, it is important for business organization to provide fair opportunities to
both male and female employees so that they can put their efforts for attaining their targets.
Current project is based on Tea traders is a small business operate their business in retail industry
with the aim of generating huge profitability level. Company also focus on providing fair
opportunities to its staff members in order to enhancing their capabilities to do something well at
working area for achieving their targets in a stipulated time frame.
TASK 1
Project aims and objectives
Project Aim
To determine the actions taken by the businesses to reducing the impact of equality and
diversity such as gender divide in leadership at workplace. A study on Tea Traders
Project Objectives
 To understand the concept of quality and diversity in the context to business.
 To identify the issues, arise due to inappropriate assessment of equality and diversity at
workplace.
 To explore the actions taken by company to reduce the issue of genders divide in
leadership at working area.
 To determine the impact of gender, divide in leadership over the performance of
employees within Tea Traders.
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Project Questions
 What is the concept of equality and diversity in the context to business?
 What are the issues arising due to inappropriate assessment of equality and diversity at
workplace?
 What are the actions taken by company to reduce the issue of genders divide in
leadership at working area?
 What is the impact of gender, divide in leadership over the performance of employees
within Tea Traders?
Rationale of project
The main purpose of undertaking current investigation is to explore the actions that taken
by business organization to eliminate the issue of gender divide in leadership within the business
organization. This is also helpful for project manager to improve their skills and knowledge on
the basis of specified topic and area (Griffiths, Roberts and Price, 2019). In addition of this, by
carried out this project activities, company can effectively analyse the impact of equality and
diversity within the business organization. With the assistance of this, researcher and company
can attain positive and reliable results within the project activities and at the same time also make
overall project more authentic and successful as well.
Project management plan
Project management plan is considered as an important formal document that determine
how a project is going and carried out. Along with this, it also includes outlines including project
scope, budget, quality, goals and deliverables that may significant for keeping a project on track.
Mainly, it also provides guidelines to project manager in undertaking entire project in an
effective manner (van Acker, Wynen and Op de Beeck, 2018). For better understanding, there
are some aspects that includes for completing the project:
 Scope: It is an important element of making a successful project as it provides wider
scope to researcher in analysing the actual action that taken by company to eliminate the
issue of gender discrimination in leadership at working area.
 Time: In order to carried out the project proper time is significant as it may support in
executing entire activities of project in stipulated time frame. For this project manager
use Gantt chart that includes project activities along with specific time.
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 Cost: Proper fund and cost is important for performing project activities because without
enough fund researcher is not being able to undertake project activities successfully. In
this context, description of cost is mentioned below that required for undertaking current
project:
Total forecasted budget
Particular 2020-21($)
Implementing technology cost 15000
Promotional expense 7000
Advertisement expense 4000
Catalogues 3000
Training charges 7000
Total cost 36000
 Quality: It is significant for project manager to maintain standard quality of project so
that reliable end results can be easily attained. For attaining the same, project manager
will use qualitative methods for collecting data and information towards the specified
topic and area to draw a meaningful judgement.
 Communication: At the time of undertaking project activities, proper communication is
significant for project manager as it helps in delivering valid and authentic results to team
members (Öge, Cetin and Top, 2018). For this, researcher use various communication
channel including email, oral communication and many more so that necessary
information successfully deliver to team members.
 Risk: There are various aspects in undertaking project activities that increase the risk in-
front of researcher as it also put negative impact over the end result of project. In this
context, there are major issue like unethical behaviour of respondents, inappropriate cost
and time and many more. Thus, it is significant for project manager to handle all the risk
factors so that entire activities of project can be complete in an effective manner.
 Resources: It is also referring to the important aspect of project activities as it helps in
completing project activities. Therefore, managing all the necessary resources are crucial
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in undertaking entire project in an appropriate manner. In order to undertake current
project there are some important resources are required such as books, journals, proper
fund, stationary and many more. With the help of this, project manager can easily
complete the project in a stipulated time frame.
Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart
Gantt Chart
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Work break down structure
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Öge, E., Cetin, M. and Top, S., 2018. The effects of paternalistic leadership on workplace
loneliness, work family conflict and work engagement among air traffic controllers in Turkey.
Journal of air transport management, 66, pp.25-35.
van Acker, W., Wynen, J. and Op de Beeck, S., 2018. Illuminating the gender divide in public
sector innovation: Evidence from the Australian public service. Public Personnel Management,
47(2), pp.175-194.
Georgeac, O. and Rattan, A., 2019. Progress in women’s representation in top leadership
weakens people’s disturbance with gender inequality in other domains. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 148(8), p.1435.
Griffiths, O., Roberts, L. and Price, J., 2019. Desirable leadership attributes are preferentially
associated with women: A quantitative study of gender and leadership roles in the Australian
workforce. Australian Journal of Management, 44(1), pp.32-49.
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