Next PLC: CSR Project Aims, Objectives, and Analysis Report

This report examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the context of Next PLC. It begins with an introduction to CSR, highlighting its importance for ethical business practices and sustainable economic development. The report then outlines the project's aims and objectives, which include identifying the benefits of CSR for the firm's performance and competitiveness. It explores key project aspects such as cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk, and resources. The analysis includes a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart for project completion, along with data on cost allocation. Furthermore, the report presents findings on the relationship between CSR and firm profitability, along with an analysis of stakeholder perception. This report provides a comprehensive overview of CSR's role in business success, offering insights into project management, cost analysis, and the impact of CSR on business outcomes.

MANAGING SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

INTRODUCTION
Corporate social responsibility is also known as community based, communal, civic,
general, group, societal and public social responsibility. CSR is important to run any business
and for a success of any business it is crucial to take decisions according to ethics, moral and
societal considerations. It creates sustainable economic development for the firm to provide new
and innovative products and services. For successful business, good decisions are very important
to economic surroundings (Albrech, 2011). The wider range of economic and societal problems
like unemployment, poverty, corruption, education is solved by business processes. They have
processing in creating new job opportunities, providing education and elevate poverty. It full fills
the requirements and demands of the people in a best possible way to overcome their difficulties
in order to survive in the organisations. They are getting benefits by diversifying business
opportunities by creating innovative products and services. By this changing scenario of the
organisation business generates new ideas and methodology to achieve their targets and compete
the challenges.
TASK 1.
P1. Project aims and objectives
CSR is the one of the most important function that is performed by the business firms.
There is vast scope of the present research study as an attempt is made to identify sustainability
that CSR bring in business. Apart from this, role that CSR play in increasing competitiveness of
business is also identified in respect to the business firm. Thus, scope of research study is wide.
Association between performance of CSR activity and formation of positive perception among
people is identified in present research study. Basically, this research is not confined to analysing
single point but focus is on multiple factors so that benefits that can be derived from performance
of corporate social responsibility can be identified for the business firm. Present research study
will help individuals in understanding indirect benefits that can be derived by performing
corporate social responsibility activity in the business. Thus, current research study will be very
helpful for individuals that intend to understand significance of CSR from business point of
view. Next plc is performing CSR from many years and currently as part of CSR it focusing on
ensuring that it is trading ethically and fulfilling all sort of responsibilities that it have towards its
workers that are working in its factory. Research study will try to identify potential benefits that

firm is receiving from CSR in its business. To start a project it is important to integrate, revise its
methods by doing its research studies and identifies its strengths and weaknesses accordingly. By
self-independence, professionalization and education researches can be motivated. There are
many quality management programmes that can be helpful for stimulation of researchers.
Accountability can be increased by verification and auditing mechanism. There are some
methods which can be adopted for verification process for example ARISTA 3.0 can be used as
a voluntary standards for guidelines and rules, transparency, accuracy and reliability of a project
and it is helpful in research operations, findings , case studies and others. The basic important
aim is to produce best quality product guarantee for clients and professionalism (Bakker and et.
al., 2011). To become competitive in educational a CSR institutes. To give full participation in
research building operations and international projects for best standing outcome to lead
professionals. There are some programmes like global social leading programmes, CSR
organizational tanning, societal investment programmes and entrepreneurship can be adopted to
revitalize and uprising of business success. It also prepares some publications in proficient
magazines and mass media. By creating conferences, induction programmes, seminal, welfare
programmes researchers will provide help.
In order to increase the client in the company it’s important to come up with the
expectations of employees and produce new products and services. To make new ideas and
implementation strategies in development of project. To vast challenges in competitive global
market and sustain it in the best possible ways and findings. By distinct and sharing knowledge
process there is easy to achieve success, generating income sources, removing quality problems
to diversify challenges. Monitoring and controlling is another important method in accessing
projects , basically monitoring is the method of project execution in which difficulties can
recognized or detect in limited time frame and with proper accuracy , the monitoring is done
through corrective actions and visionary methods by detecting and analysing the the different
situations (Crawford and Nahmias, 2010). There are group of activities associated with project
monitoring and execution like implementation , in this the idea should be extend further and its a
traditional to modern approach in project development programme, accuracy deals with the
corrective actions taken in project like whatever mistakes committed it can be corrected through
monitoring . Controlling is done by overall situations in initiation of project handing and
measurable outcomes in the projects. These are the different aims and objectives to accessing the

projects in business environment to implement new ideas and the help of different resources and
outcomes to achieve the success in business and diversify its challenges as well.
Project aims and objectives
Aim of research: Main aim of the present research study is to identify multiple benefits that are
derived by the firm by performing CSR activities in business.
Objectives of research
 To identify impact that CSR have on the Next plc performance.
 To identify impact that CSR have on sustainability level in the business.
 To find out extent to which CSR assist firm in competing with rivals.
P2. Aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and resources in project.
According to the report by unit-con Next plc. There are many constraints of projects
including cost, scope , time , quality , communication and risk and resources . Cost determines
the overall cost of the project including expenses and turnover of the project. Scope envisages
the future upbringings of the projects like what are the benefits of projects in consideration with
future time period and present working environment, basically it deals with the overall benefits
of the project (Frishammar, Florén and Wincent, 2011). Time is also considered as a vital
important aspect of project in determining how much time is required for completion of the
project and what is the minimum and maximum time given for the completion of the project.
Quality includes the overall standards of the project related with goods and services,
innovative ideas type of employees and training methods. Interaction is done through different
sources consists of different networking channels, advertisements, media and online shopping
platform. There are different types of resources which can be helpful for making project
successful.
Following are the different types of constrains in project analysis:-
COST :-
This includes manpower cost, labour cost and overall turnover of the project. It consists
of total costs required in man, machinery, material and production. In this session of the project
the cost of employees working in the organization , goods and services cost, machinery cost and
most importantly sharing cost and profit maximization costs are included .

Table 1Cost related data on research
Collection of secondary data 100
Preparing literature review section 50
Gathering primary data 500
Analysis of primary data 200
Preparation of report 50
Overall cost of project 900
SCOPE :-
Scope determines the affectivity and durability of the project and future expectations
associated with the projects. The scope of the project is a clear and specific arrangement of the
development of projects. It visualize the complete portray of the project for future expectations
and future benefits of the project ( I Oztur ACavusgil S.T. and CavusgilE 2013) . It decides the
advantages and disadvantages of the projects. By scope of the project it a can ea silt determine
the number of employees working in the project. Scope determines the success of the project and
calculate the competition strategy the organization working environment.
TIME :-
Time is the calculative factor in making any project. Time provides directions to
complete work in a given sphere of time, there is a specific time for completion of a project. It
also provides motivation for employees to work quickly and overtime for the completion
process.
RESOURCES:-
Resources are the main and fundamental part of the project. It consists of different types
of resources including man-made resources, logistics, capital resources, accommodation, by the
help of these types of substantial resources project can be made and completed.
RISK:-
According to uni-con Next plc, risk is sort of respondents that are taken for conducting primary
research. In case it is observed that number of sample units that are taken are not appropriate
then in that case wrong data can be gathered in present research study. Hence, it is very
important to collect primary data in manner.

P3. Work break down structure and Gantt chart stages for project completion.
According to the report by Next plc, work break down structure is the arrangement of
work requirement for the delivery of logistics. The breaking of projects is done into low level
sub tasks and sub units for scheduling, execution and controlling. The basic important part of
project planning is work break down structure ( Loch C 2010Meskendahl). For the calculation of
project duration, resource requirement and work scheduling work break down structure is used.
It can determine the planning and developing strategy of the project including character and
planning of a project. It creates responsibility of organization like capital and networking
conditions. It divides the project work in different phases to for the convenient use of time and
minimising difficulties in project analysis. Following are the different steps in work break down
structure.
START WITH THE DIFFICULT TASKS:-
Starting of a project is done with the difficulty level, for making or designing any project
it should be start with difficult tasks.
 Investigations in the process of the project
 overall cost of the project
 methods used in construction
 Testing process , commissioning process and handover.
ANALYSING SUB TASKS:-
In process one the difficult work including investigations, costs, and construction
methods and testing processes should be done first. Work done is like from upper level to lower
level of organizations. Investigations consists of surveying, site visiting and technical
investigations. Basically this is based upon time and divides accordingly to sub processes. If the
task is completed in eight hours that is the minimum time period for a task is eight hours then
does not required to break down further but on the other hand if the task is more that eighty
hours then obviously it requires to break down in further process and this the overall concept of
work break down structure in analysis and determining of tasks. Work break down structure is
the comprehensive tool for projects in time management and analysis of of the business
performance
GANTT CHART PROCESS:-

For setting up of Gantt chart your thought process is required in accordance with overall
work in the project, in this the responsibility in working, time management and encountering
difficulties and problems should be done. The process is like as follows:-
 reviewing the plans
 circulation of plans
 equipment price
 delivery
 packing
 installation
 collection processing
 meeting and discussions
these are the stages in the work break down structure in accordance with Gantt cart
process.
Task
Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Manually
Scheduled Reviewing the plans 5 days Sep 27 '17 Oct 3 '17
Manually
Scheduled Circulation of plans 2 days Oct 4 '17 Oct 5 '17 1
Manually
Scheduled Equipment price 6 days Oct 6 '17 Oct 13 '17 2
Manually
Scheduled Delivery 2 days Oct 6 '17 Oct 9 '17 1,2
Manually
Scheduled Packing 2 days Oct 16 '17 Oct 17 '17 3
Manually
Scheduled Installation 1 day Oct 16 '17 Oct 16 '17 2,3
Manually
Scheduled Collection processing 5 days Oct 10 '17 Oct 16 '17 4
Manually
Scheduled Meeting and discussions 2 days Oct 18 '17 Oct 19 '17 5

Figure 1GANTT chart
Figure 2 Network diagram
On the basis of analysis of chart it can be said that activity 4,6 and 7 can be delayed but tasks
1,2,3,5 and 8 cannot be delayed by project manager. If same will not happened then in that case
project cost will increase.
P4. Qualitative and Quantitative research methods aims and objectives
According to the findings of Next plc Qualitative research is a research that collects
information without any numerical data, for an instance dairy accounts, open ended
questionnaires , interviews and observations without structures. Its a descriptive data and
difficult to analyse as compared to quantitative data (S 2010Morrow). It is usefully in case
studies at individual level and determine the way people think and observe. There is very
difficult to analyse the qualitative data because the accurate response of participant is required.
For example for open questions sorting responses and interviews into wider aspects. For detailed
analysis from Quotations from diaries or interviews might be used to describe points. There is a
requirement of professional knowledge for interpretation of qualitative data and it should be

done with great care. The qualitative data would be unstructured and by the use open questions
group interviews can be produced. This will helping out to respondent to express deeply and use
their own words and ideas. This helps a researcher to develop an understanding criteria about the
person behaviour, thoughts and feelings. The qualitative analysis is very time consuming method
for researchers and understanding their views.
Quantitative research is a research that collects information by use of statistical method, it
is totally numerical based which can be put into numerical orders and tabulation and measured in
units in measurement. They are used to construct graphs and tables. Scientists mostly give their
preference to quantitative data because they give exact and accurate figures in data analysis.
Other research methods like observations and questionnaires can produce both qualitative and
quantitate methods of research. Closed questions and rated scale can generate quantitative data
because they produce numerical value , but on the other hand simply data that can be produced
by the open ended questions like (yes or no) can give the qualitative analysis these analysis can
be interpret very easily. They provide qualitative information and descriptive response.
Experimental methods can reduce the path in which the research partner can react in the
expressions of their behaviour in relation with societal issues. Researchers can do founding
which in context of the investigation.
P5. Analyse research in data using appropriate tools and techniques.
Q.1 Profitability of the business firm increased due to performance of CSR in business?
Yes 20
No 10
Figure 3Respondent response on relationship between profitability and CSR of business firm

Interpretation
Results are reflecting that there are 20 respondents out of 50 who state that they believed
that firm profitability and CSR are interlink to each other. There are only 10 respondents who
state that they are not agree with fact that profitability and CSR are associated with each other. It
can be said that CSR have impact on firm profitability.
Q. 2 Attention of people can be grabbed by performing CSR activity in best way?
Agree 15
Strongly agree 10
Neutral 0
Disagree 2
Strongly disagree 3
Total 30
Figure Relationship between attention of people and CSR
Interpretation
Research results reflect that there are 50% respondents which are agree with asked
statement. There are only 10% respondents that are disagree with same. 7% respondents are
disagree followed by 0% are neutral and 33% strongly agree with same statement. It can be said
that most of respondents think that there is relationship between CSR and attention that can be
received by from people.

Q.3 Sustainability and CSR are interrelated to each other?
Agree 8
Strongly agree 12
Neutral 3
Disagree 4
Strongly disagree 3
Total 30
Figure 4 Sustainability and CSR
Interpretation
There are 27% respondents who are agree and 40% are strongly agree with asked
statement. 10% are neutral followed by 13% are disagree and 10% are strongly disagree on same
statement. Hence, it can be said that sustainability and CSR are interrelated to each other.
Q. 4 CSR enable firm to compete with its rivals in easy and effective manner?
Agree 9
Strongly agree 15
Neutral 1
Disagree 2
Strongly disagree 3
Total 30