Unit 6 Project: Debenhams' Diverse and Inclusive Workforce Strategy

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Debenhams' strategies and initiatives for building a diverse and inclusive workforce. The project begins with an introduction outlining the importance of diversity and inclusion in business, followed by a detailed project management plan including aims, objectives, scope, cost, and time considerations. The report then presents a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to illustrate project timelines and task organization. A small-scale research component is included, utilizing both primary and secondary research methods to gather data on Debenhams' practices. The research employs quantitative methods through questionnaires, sampling, and qualitative methods through literature reviews to address research questions about the significance of a diverse workforce, strategies used, and the importance of inclusion. The findings from the research are synthesized to provide recommendations for enhancing Debenhams' diversity and inclusion efforts, followed by a reflection on the project's value in meeting stated objectives. The report concludes with a summary of key insights and recommendations, supported by references.

Unit-6-Managing a Successful
Business project

Table of Contents
Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Project aims and objectives...............................................................................................1
P2 Produce of project management plan................................................................................3
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart...................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2) Small scale research by apply of primary and secondary methods.................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P6 Recommendation as result of findings and data analysis................................................16
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P7) Reflect on the value of undertaking the projects to meet stated objectives...................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

TITLE
“What sort of strategy and initiatives that companies put to build the diverse and
inclusive workforce”? A case study on Debenhams.
INTRODUCTION
Managing a successful business includes the development, implementation and the
execution of the different policy and strategy in order to organize the business in systematic
manner and ensure that business attain its goals and objectives in timely manner. The business
become more successful if they implies the better structure in order to follow the target and
ensure that their working performance keep on increasing by which the company could gain
higher competitive advantage (Bell, 2018). In this the company must get use the diverse and
inclusive workforce as the diverse will defines the different group of people that belong from the
different places, regions, race etc while inclusive defines the environment that values the entire
individual on the basis of their abilities and skills. This report is based on the Debenhams that is
the British multinational retailer and has operated their departmental stores in the Denmark and
UK. The company was founded in the year 1778 by William Clark and have dealt with the
products as like accessories, fashion clothing, toys, shoes, home and furniture etc and have work
with the 25000 numbers of employee. This report includes the project report, findings and the
recommendation with reflection.
TASK 1
P1 Project aims and objectives
To measure the strategy and initiative that has been taken by the Debenhams about to
build the diverse and inclusive within the workforce. As all the companies will try to work with
the most talented and skilled workforce and in this they have induce different strategy in order to
attract the most talented workforce within the business. In this Debenhams also get attract the
skilled employee and with this have enhance the working ability of the business.
Aim- “What sort of strategy and initiatives that companies put to build the diverse and
inclusive workforce”. The Debenhams has accepted the diverse and inclusive workforce and
under this they have enhance the level of participation of the employee by thus they have achieve
more success and continuous growth (Tidd, 2018).
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Objectives
 To collect added information about the diverse and inclusive employees.
 To compute the usefulness of the diverse strategy that are used by Debenhams
 To enumerate the worth and return of the diverse and inclusive workforce.
Research questions:
 What is the significance of diverse and inclusive workforce in the company?
 The different strategies used by the company to promote diverse and inclusiveness.
 What is the importance of diverse and inclusive inside the workforce?
Literature Review
What is the significance of diverse and inclusive workforce in the company?
As per the viewpoint of Anja Zojceska, 2018, the diversity includes the wide range of
individual that belongs from different places including, age, colour, religion, language, race etc.
It is something that all the companies have strived to get achieve that and it helps to improves the
reputation of the company and that is the ultimate goals of the company. The diverse surround
provides the tangible benefits to the company as like employee engagement, increases profit etc.
The different strategies used by the company to promote diverse and inclusiveness.
As per the viewpoint of Tom Wells, 2018, the workplace inclusion is more helpful for the
employee to feel safer while working in the modern workplace and diverse team. The companies
often equate the workplace inclusion and the diversity as it challenge the unconscious bias in
which the male and female all equate as one (Polonsky, 2018). It build the mentoring community
in which more of the employee has that leadership skills by which better culture will get
promote.
What is the importance of diverse and inclusive inside the workforce?
As per the viewpoint of Scott Ballina, 2018, employees are the lifeblood of the company
and in this the diverse team all the employee have the unique set of skills and capabilities and
when all get collect together then they have share their experience and make something new by
which the success and profit rate of the company will get enhanced more. The diverse and
inclusive workforce thrive the business and make more success in which the larger number of
employee of different prospect get together and make the positive change.
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P2 Produce of project management plan
The project management plan defines the overall project need as like the planning,
controlling, execution, monitoring, implementing the different activities by which better result
get achieved (Hopkinson, 2018). It is more helpful as it helps to recognise the risk factor that
resists the performance and with this the valuable result gets achieved in systematic manner.
Project plan
Aim and deliverables: The project aim is to attain the effective outcomes by inducing
different strategy by taking more initiative in order to develop the diverse and inclusive
workforce.
Scope: It will defines the outcomes and the capacity of the business to get maintain the
diverse and inclusive in the employee by which they could achieve more profit within the timely
basis as by completing the task in appropriate manner.
Project cost: It includes the total cost that gets associated with the different activities that get
performed in the completion of the project and in this £60 get assigned to complete the project.
It defines the net cost that is interlinked while completing the project as to get accomplish the
ordinal project as in that £10 is associated with the travelling cost and £50 get related to
collection the data
Travelling £10
Half day in data collection – time off from
work
£50
Total £60
Time: It will defines the total time that will taken by the researcher to complete the research
in adequate period of time and in this the researcher need the time period of 4 months and under
that produce the better plan for the business (Pearlson, 2019).
Quality: It is relative to the outcome that get produce as after the accomplishment of the
project and in this the research will ensure that all the resource will get utilised with more
perfection and under this the better result get conceived that is beneficial for the Debenhams to
get make suitable changes in their business.
Communication: In is the factor under which the researcher will collect the relevant detail
and information from the respondent by ensuring that the clear data will get collected. In this the
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researcher makes the valid interaction with the candidates with the help of questionnaire,
telephonic conversation, collection of feedback, internet, interview etc.
Information Receiver Method of
communication
Sender
Aims and
objectives
Students Email Researcher
Research
methodology
Students Email Researcher
Data collection
and analyses
Students Email Researcher
Risk: It is the aspect that comes with the success but in this the researcher make the profit by
reducing the complexity and get divide the overall task into segments and keep an eye on all the
activities by which the sustain outcome get attained from each task (Biemans, 2018).
Resources: These are the different needed sources that is more helpful to complete the
research in satisfactory manner as like the phone, net connection, human resource, printers,
books etc. It will help to perform the research in timely manner by managing the suitability of
the business.
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart
Gantt chart: This chart will be used to get divide the overall task into the different
activities by which all the task has been completed under the assigned time period and with this
more accurate result will get obtained (Appelbaum, 2018). It is a chart that get used to make
more profitable aspect under which the researcher make the sufficient decision making by which
the better changes get induce within the project in which the sufficient result will get achieved.
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Work Breakdown structure: In this structure the overall task that has been conducted in
the project will get divided into the different segments by which the focus will get maintained
towards each and every activity and in this the risk factor will also get reduced (Issa, 2020). It
make easier for the researcher that they get more suitable outcome and indulge the changes as
per the requirement by which more adequate result get conceived in timely manner.
TASK 2
P2) Small scale research by apply of primary and secondary methods
Research is a systematic investigation that is conducted with implement of various study
material that are used for accomplishing major requirement for project (Rao and Roberts, 2018).
This is also used by management for attaining better result that leads to establish better facts and
figures in order to generate meaningful conclusion. Mainly there are two types of research aspect
that is primary and secondary which helps to gather and implement better information.
Quantitative method- The main purpose of quantitative research is to understand overall
situation in order to gain beneficiary prospects. This also refers to the process that is used in
managing primarily inductive research for formulating hypothesis (Shore, Cleveland and
Sanchez, 2018). It is a text based approach that is used for obtains of experience knowledge that
is viewed and develops in the form of tabular information and mathematical information.
Qualitative method- This refers to an effective research that is related with statements
and it is related with primarily deductive process in which organisation developed meaningful
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conclusion on the basis of pre-specified concepts. Moreover, it is a statistical tool that is used for
measuring the analysis that is depended on measurement device and implement right and
accurate results from organisation.
 Primary source- It refer to the data which is collected for the first time and it is used by
researcher to generate validate enquiry on specified topic of organisation. Under this all
information is collected with specified questions in order to gain confidential data related
to a specific topic (Davies and et. al., 2019). But the time taken to collect information
from primary source is more in order to gain meaningful information.
 Secondary resource- In this data is collected by researcher from previously published
articles and it is related with various sources such as journals, financial statements and
books. In context of secondary information all data is collected that is utilised by
individuals already. This result all task are conducted by researcher in a satisfactory
way which helps in making better results with a satisfactory way.
Sampling- It refers to a method or process through which all information is collected in a
predetermined manner and for evaluating better results a small sample size is collected for
understating respond of overall responds of individuals. The selected sample size for this
research is 30.
Questionnaire
Quantitative Question
Q1) Does employed individuals belongs to a range of diverse people?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Does employees of Debenhams are permitted for performing work in diverse range?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Does the workplace is able to implement diverse and inclusiveness?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) In what methods organisation delight its employees?
a) Selective recruitment
b) Managing work with large variety.
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Q5) What do you understand by diverse workforce or employee?
a) Engaged all employees in project
b) To include them in decision making
c) By providing similar value to all workforce
Q6) Is the understanding of diversity and inclusive workforce is essential aspects for global
organisation?
a) Yes
b) No
Q7) What is the impact of diverse workforce in organisation?
a) Improve in company productivity
b) Satisfying employee needs
Q8) Why it is important for global organisation to implement workforce as per inclusive and
diverse workforce?
a) Increase in productivity
b) Retention of skilled employees
c) To enhance goodwill of organisation
Qualitative question
Q9) Define the strategy which is used by organisation for measuring inclusive and diverse
workforce?
 Development and Training
 Participation of all employees
Q10) How the strategy of culture and diverse workforce is implemented in organisation?
 Change in management style
 With performance appraisal
 By offering equal opportunities
Q11) Recommendation
TASK 3
Q1) Does employed individuals belongs to a range of diverse people? Frequency
c) Yes 15
d) No 15
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Q2) Does employees of Debenhams are permitted for performing work in
diverse range?
Frequency
c) Yes 20
d) No 10
Q3) Does the workplace is able to implement diverse and inclusiveness? Frequency
c) Yes 14
d) No 16
Q4) In what methods organisation delight its employees? Frequency
c) Selective recruitment 18
d) Managing work with large variety. 12
Q5) What do you understand by diverse workforce or employee? Frequency
d) Engaged all employees in project 10
e) To include them in decision making 10
f) By providing similar value to all workforce 10
Q6) Is the understanding of diversity and inclusive workforce is essential
aspects for global organisation?
Frequency
c) Yes 25
d) No 5
Q7) What is the impact of diverse workforce in organisation? Frequency
c) Improve in company productivity 20
d) Satisfying employee needs 10
Q8) Why it is important for global organisation to implement workforce as
per inclusive and diverse workforce?
Frequency
d) Increase in productivity 8
e) Retention of skilled employees 8
f) To enhance goodwill of organisation 14
Qualitative question
Q9) Define the strategy which is used by organisation for measuring
inclusive and diverse workforce?
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 Development and Training
 Participation of all employees
Q10) How the strategy of culture and diverse workforce is implemented in
organisation?
 Change in management style
 With performance appraisal
 By offering equal opportunities
Q11) Recommendation
Q1) Does employed individuals belongs to a range of diverse people? Frequency
a) Yes 15
b) No 15
a) Yes
b) No
0 2 4 6 8 10121416
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation- With the above analysis it is identified that individuals are performing
their work in global organisation are similarly belong to local area and other geographical area.
So it is related with management that there are various task and operations by management to
work with employees at equal level (Brimhall and Mor Barak, 2018).
Q2) Does employees of Debenhams are permitted for performing work in
diverse range?
Frequency
a) Yes 20
b) No 10
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