Project Report: Strategies for Workplace Diversity at Bandon Tiles Ltd

This project report examines the diversity and inclusion strategies of Bandon Tiles Ltd, a small-scale company aiming to expand its workforce. The report includes a project plan with objectives to analyze the impact of diversity and inclusiveness, understand advancements in the workforce, and measure their importance. The project encompasses a literature review, research questions, and a project management plan detailing costs, timeframes, scope, and communication strategies. It utilizes a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart for project organization. The research employs both quantitative and qualitative methods, including primary and secondary sources, to gather data. The report presents findings and data using appropriate tools and techniques, followed by recommendations to improve the company's diversity and inclusion efforts, culminating in a reflection on the project's value. The aim is to measure the different initiatives and strategies that the company uses to build a workplace that supports diversity and inclusiveness.

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Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
P1) Devise the aim and objectives..............................................................................................1
P2) Produce a project management plan.....................................................................................4
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart ......................................................5
P4) Carry out small-scale research..............................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and techniques. .....................................9
P6) Communicate appropriate recommendations.....................................................................15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................15
P7 Reflect on the value of undertaking the project ..................................................................15
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

TITLE
“To measure the different initiative and strategy that is used by the company to build a
workplace that with the support of diverse and inclusiveness?. A case study on Bandon Tiles Ltd.
INTRODUCTION
The successful business needs to make a continuous improvements and advancements
that collectively improvises the process and progress of the company that helps to become more
productive and efficient. It helps to better respond to the different changes of the marketplace
that is to provide the effective services to the customers (Acurio, 2019). It is the working
prospect of the business as with this have make the certain modifications on timely based by
which the sales and profit of the company get developed. It is needed and essential for the
business to implies the different strategy through which collective outcome get generated that is
by the efforts of the employees. It is the usual aspect that the business must perform better if
there employees get work with better perfection. In this the business shows there support to
employees and induces the different strategy and initiative by which there working ability and
capacity get enlarged. The following report is based on the Bandon Tiles Ltd as it is a small scale
company that wants to expand the business and make the planning to enhance the workforce.
The report consist of the project plan, research, findings and recommendations and evaluation.
TASK 1
P1) Devise the aim and objectives
To analyse the strategies and the initiatives that is usually taken by the company in order
to promote or the diverse culture by which all the individual get accepted as in term of diversity
the trait and characteristics of the people make themselves different and unique whereas
inclusive is a surround that promote and ensure that adequate behaviour and values get provided
to all the employees. Bandon Tiles Ltd expand its business in relation to the employees
increment thus have uses the various strategies by which employee feel more comfort and
connected towards the business and in this the company is able to ensure that social norms and
behaviour (AYDIN, 2018).
Aim: To measure the different initiative and strategy that is used by the company to
build a workplace that with the support of diverse and inclusiveness. In this Bandon Tiles Ltd
has worked to promote the better culture that support the abilities of employees without getting
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differentiate on the basis of culture, religion, race, gender etc. In adverse work to improvise the
working ability by engaging the employee towards the participation and engagement.
Objectives:
 To analyse the impact of diversity over the employees and working surround.
 To understand the advancement of using inclusiveness inside the workforce.
 To measure the importance of diversity and inclusive workforce.
 To collect the appropriate information related to the outcomes of diverseness and
inclusiveness in the workplace.
Research questions:
 The impact of diversity over the employees?
 The advancement of inclusiveness in the workforce.
 The importance of diversity and inclusive workforce.
 The outcomes of diverseness and inclusiveness in the workplaces.
Literature review
The impact of diversity over the employees?
As per the viewpoint of Robert Vaux, 2019, the companies is modern era diversity is
strive to the employees in this the candidates get hired that belongs from various race, creed, age,
gender and it is to collect those individual that having different experience by which get work
over the different rank (Bacouël-Jentjens, 2016). The companies those follow the diversity
having the better advantage over those who didn't uses or promotes diverseness. It helps to
enhance the broader employee base that aid to facilitate the employment as in this there is no
need to make a meeting space it could be done virtually as well as in this have connect with the
different through online and email communication. It assist to increases the better income so as
to form the broader sales and productivity but needs to make an investment in the initial stages.
The advancement of inclusiveness in the workforce?
According to the standpoint of Kathy Gurchiek, 2018, inclusiveness is being used to
promote the leadership by which the professionalism get offered and that is to ensure that the
managers have generate the better opportunities in the market and it is about how to generate the
diverse work groups. It is also being used to make the effective decision-making by which
integrated opportunity get developed. The formal council get developed and with this have
comprised a groups which is being more influential by which the employee get worked with
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more passion and commitment (Bell, 2018). It is concerned about the goal setting and the hiring
and retaining of the talented workforce. The company must be celebrate the difference among
the employees and accept them as per there educational background and traditions to showcase
the strong working possibilities.
The importance of diversity and inclusive workforce.
According to the viewpoint of Shandia Drummond-But, 2020, diversity is related to the
talent that consist of the various individual as from the ages, religion, cultural background,
sexual orientation, education, language, skills, ethnic etc. Diversity and inclusion reflect the
effective success and development that impart continuous success and higher profitability. The
company must have gain the easy accessibility that help to bring the effective sight of motivation
and need of the customers. The identification of the inclusiveness is define by the vision and
goals by which the effective understanding of employee get diverse and it must be follows,
adopted and implemented by the organisation (Cletus, 2018). The business always provide the
training and development to the employee by which they have make the selective engagement
and involvement with the company and also takes different decision accordingly.
The outcomes of diverseness and inclusiveness in the workplaces.
As per the point of view of Cissy Young, 2019, the investment in the diversity and
inclusiveness is being more vital and get used by the company so as to increase the working
potential of the business. It has been worked on the basis of some key factors as like better
accountability by which the holding capacity of goals and objectives get developed. It is also
used to enhance the effective and its amplifications by which loyal and and innovative workforce
get developed by which parallelly the performance also get enhanced. It is the aspect that define
the clear vision by which relative success get gained by the business and it reflect through the
served services to customers. It improvises the overcoming tendency from the problems by
which the custom design will get diagnose.
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P2) Produce a project management plan
Project plan is in the form of written document that consist of the objectives and scope
and helps the researcher to conduct the better management of project by reducing its complexity.
It aid to specifies the overall task and activities that are must to be performed and also provide
the accurate pathway to analyse the needed resources and allocation of budget within the
particular timeline (Elegbe, 2016). Plan also considerate the strategy that is used to manage and
operate the research and include some basic factors that are as defined below as:
 Cost: It is a essential aspect of project execution with this the adequate budget get
provided by the company to the researcher. As the initiation and completion of project
need some amount so as to purchase and fulfil the basic need of research as like training
to ordinates, research tool, travelling, legal compliance and miscellaneous activities thus
in the company provide the budget of £200.
 Time: It is the certain instance that is required by the researcher and assigned by the
Bandon Tiles Ltd and under this the respective research get accomplished with better
affordability outcomes. In this the researcher need the time period of about 3 months and
under this period the better outcome of research get accomplished (Fogarty, 2018). Scope: It is based on the output that is developed as after the completion of project by the
researcher. It reflect the better understanding about the different strategy and initiative
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that must be taken by the company and with this there working standard get upraised
appropriately. Quality: It is the standardised result that is achieved as per the completion of research and
in this the researcher get ensure that all the complexity get reduces from the business and
with this the factor that resist the working performance also get managed in systematic
format. Communication: This is being the important aspect and under the researcher make the
adequate interaction within the employee that helps to make the better understanding
about the response and attributes of employees (Ghauri, 2020). In this researcher need the
questionnaire, internet, phone, tablets etc. to make the validate interaction. Risk: It is a factor that is more based on the important as the risk is always be associated
with the working norms and it must be required to get analysed by this the researcher
analyse all the activities and work on to reduces the negative impacts. In this the better
result get provided to the company by which they have furthermore make the efficient
strategy to develop diverse culture.
 Resources: It is based on the availability of the different sources under which researcher
complete the research with more comfort and easiness as in this researcher need the
printers, human resource, mobile phones etc. by which satisfactory output get collected.
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart
Gantt chart: It is being used to processed the research by making the sufficient illustration
and with this the dependency of all the activities get defined which is related to each other.
Researcher uses this to complete the project by making the appropriate scheduling of the project
plan thus the work get done with more suitability and clarity (Ikenberry, 2019).
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Work Breakdown structure: In this structure the researcher divide the complete project
into the different segments and keep an eye over thus the organised and managed research get
completed within the assigned period of time (Kerzner, 2019). It is being more beneficial as it
segmented the project by which each individual activity get completed after the removal of
redundancy this productive outcome get collected.
TASK 2
P4) Carry out small-scale research
Research is a systematic formulation and study of some relative material and that is to
develop the responsive facts and figure so as to reach out to better result. It is undertaken by the
researcher to increases its knowledge and collection of relative information in order to devise
new assumptions (Konrad, 2016).
Quantitative method: It is a method of research in which the data get collected as by
observations that might be in the form of mathematical representation, statistical formulation and
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numerical implementation that has been done with the support of tools and techniques and as by
performing questionnaire, poll or survey.
Qualitative method: It is a method in which the researcher gathered the relative
information as from the non- numerical and unstructured information which is basically get
collected as from the open ended conversation, interview and observation as well (Koomen,
2018). Primary source: In this data get collected as by performing the research that is a sby the
survey, conduction of interviews, experiment and with this information get gained after
making adequate interpretation.
 Secondary sources: In this the information get gathered as from the already published
article, journals, financial report etc. and has been done to perform the research.
Sampling: It is a procedures that is basically in the form of statistical analysis through
which researcher get targeted the specified group as from the total population and in this research
the sample size is 30.
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Do you have relative understanding about what the diverse and inclusive mean?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Did you believe that diversity and inclusiveness is vital for the success and
development of business?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) What are the strategy that is currently used by the Bandon Tiles Ltd to improvise the
working standard of business?
a) Undiscriminating recruitment
b) Promote assortment in job
Q4) What are the different type of strategy that is chosen by Bandon Tiles Ltd to enhance
the diverse culture?
a) Progressive engagement of worker
b) Participation in decision making
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c) By valuing workers
Q5) What are the different benefits that is gained by the company by using inclusiveness?
a) Amassed creation
b) Image of organisation
c) Competitive advancement
Q6) How the company promote the diverse and inclusive workforce?
a) Reinforced employees activity
b) Accumulated job gratification
Qualitative questions
Q7) State the various strategy that is used by Bandon Tiles Ltd so as to induce assortment
and inclusive workplace?
 Training and development
 Participative leadership
Q8) What type of initiative that is build by Bandon Tiles Ltd to improvise the impact of
diverse employee’s?
a) Modified leadership style
b) By providing performance benefits
c) By provide similar facilities
TASK 3
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and techniques.
Q1) Do you have relative understanding about
what the diverse and inclusive mean?
Frequency
Yes 20
No 10
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Interpretation: It shows that out of 30 employees 20 are aware of the fact that what is
meant by diverse and inclusive mean which talks about the contribution of employees belonging
to different backgrounds whereas 10 employees are unaware about the same (Lombardi, 2019).
Q2) Did you believe that diversity and
inclusiveness is vital for the success and
development of business?
Frequency
Yes 25
No 5
Interpretation: From above we can conclude that 25 employees out of 30 are of the
opinion that the diversity and inclusiveness plays a key role in the success and growth of the
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