Research Project: Globalisation's Impact on John Lewis & Partners

This project investigates the effects of globalisation on the retail sector, focusing on John Lewis & Partners, a UK-based department store chain. The project aims to identify the positive economic, cultural, and ethical impacts of globalisation on various business functions. It includes a project management plan, work breakdown structure, and Gantt chart. The research employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches, utilizing primary data collection through questionnaires and secondary data from various sources. The analysis examines the impact on international trade opportunities, human resource needs, marketing challenges, and global income growth. The findings reveal insights into the company's experience in international markets and the effects of increased competition. The project concludes with an analysis of the collected data, providing interpretations of the findings related to the research questions and objectives.

Project Management

INTRODUCTION
Organisation exist in most competitive market where environment become more complex
that directly affected by globalisation. International market is greatest approach to enhance
business into global level. The business gets into the new market and enhance the business
operation and development growth market opportunities as well. Globalisation is the best way to
improve higher demand from markets and faster turnaround times. It will help to improve the
way of producing a better goals and objectives in order to improve the company quality and
market positioning as well.
During the past few years scientific perfections in transportation new advanced
technology and process of communication had been given huge impact on the business
development goals. Apart from that, it made big contributions to the growth of globalisation.
Present description will be going to be based on globalisation & their positive and negative
impact on the retail sector. For that, report will be taking John Lewis & Partners which is a chain
of high end department stores operated in UK. Overall study explained about the importance of
globalisation and discussed the significant effects on the overall development process.
LO 1
P1 Devise aims and objectives
Background
Company expand its business operations into another company for enhancing their
business functions and growth expansion. In other terms globalisation is also emphasized that, it
is the term which integration of cultural, regional and economies with the help of communication
by different transportation mode. Globalisation presented in different kinds of such as
liberalisation, internationalization, universalization & westernisation etc. The aims to get into the
each other functions to earn innovative more development and leading result opportunities
(Bratton and Gold, 2017). Besides, it also includes some issues regarding business ethics.
Globalisation is the best tool to enhance the development of company operations and probability
market into the higher level.
Aims : “To identify the positive economic, cultural, and ethical impacts of globalisation on
different business functions”- A study based on John Lewis & Partners.
Objectives
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 To categorise the positive influence of globalisation on different factors.
 To determine the position of International market for better performance of business
functions.
 To analyse the ethical issues in different Globalization practical areas that company
faced.
Research Questions
Q. What are the optimistic impact of globalisation on different factors?
Q. What are the standing of economic process for better performance of business functions?
Q. What are the ethical issues in different global areas that company faced?
P2 Produce a project management plan
Communication: The basic function behind communication process is to ensure that
every member of project should aware about the all activities and functions needs to be
performed to get target accomplished (Cavusgil and et.al., 2014).
Project scope: Project scope is the developing result outcomes on which result has been
based. Scope is very much necessary and essential to understand the importance which express
the purpose. Present research scope is to express the positive and negative impact of
Globalisation on Cited company functions.
Quality: Excellence application is mandatory in the project to ensure that everything is
going good and according to set method. This element ensures project stability and possibilities
of good outcomes.
Resources: Resources required to full fill the aim and objectives such as to collect data,
human resource is required. To manage data and statistics technology is required etc (Taylor,
Bogdan and DeVault, 2015).
Costs: Prices has involved in each activity through task get accomplished and fulfilled.
Such as to conduct this present study researcher spend £450.
Risk: Risk is the uncertain factor which generally involved in each and every activity in
the project. Such as researcher could face many issues to collect data, researcher could fail in
order to accomplished goals due to some limitations etc.
Time : This is the most vital factor in project which showing when project will be started
and when it will be closed. This project will be complete in 202 days.
Project management plan
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P3 Work break down structure and Gantt Chart
Gantt Chart
Work Break down structure

LO 2
P4 Conduct research with the help of qualitative and quantitative research approaches.
Research approach: Investigation approached revenues been describing into two
different parts of method such as deductive and inductive approaches. Inductive approach
usually starts with observation philosophies are planned in order to finish the research process
and goals. Deductive research approach is developing the hypothesis on the existing theories.
Present study will be using the inductive research approach and goals. Taken study further.
Along with that, it discovers new management task and new effective learning goals.
Data collection: it is the procedure to collect different data from two different method
primary and secondary data collection techniques. That helps to collect data for the further
study, it helps to define into deeper manner. It is the kind of very systematic approach in order to
complete the process of project and helps to keep the target more managing and effective.
Present study will be uses primary information method by using the questionnaire method. It
develops the new managing new effective results.
Primary method of data collection is quite complex and expensive comparatively others.
Besides, primary data which create by some group of social unit. This data has been collected by
different know-how such as questionnaire, interview, observation etc.
Second method is secondary techniques to collect the data for research that to collect data
from internet, books, journals, magazines which has already been existed (Crane and Matten,
2016). The main aim of this method is to deeply analyse of the study which has been already
done by others to enhance the more knowledge on the specific topic.
Sampling: Selection is the long-lasting results & goals. Most specific and necessary part
of the procedure of research which taken some specific number of people as a respondent to
collect data. Sampling divided into two methods probability and non-probability sampling
technique. Probability selection acting is the process which stretches chance of participation in
the research. Probability sampling includes method such as stratified systematic, multistage,
cluster sampling method (Crane and Matten, 2016). On the other side, non-probability sampling
has selects member as per the age group, and selects people on the basis of non-random manner
(Vellas, 2016). Present study will be going to take simple random sampling method by taking
employees of the organisation which is around 20 employees as a respondent of the cited
company.

Data analysis: DA is another procedure after collecting data by many sources. Data
analysis consists some different kinds of techniques and results in order to meet out the result
and growth. There are two kinds of methods of data analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data
analysis methods of techniques. Quantitative method includes mathematical term in which
researcher analyse data on the basis of numerical manner with the form of mean, median and
mode (Wheelen and et.al., 2017). Apart from that, qualitative research method is simple and
flexible than quantitative process. That affect the business into more appropriate manner. In this
data collection technique data has been evaluated by critical manner. Present study will be taken
qualitative research technique.
Ethical consideration: Legal implications and laws helps to ensure about the legal terms
in the project that is essential to be followed. Ethical consideration protect study from illegal
forms of terms and guide about requirement to be take or which is not.
Questionnaire
Name :
Occupation :
Age :
1. Does globalisation has increased the opportunities of trade environment for company ?
 Yes
 No
2. Does globalisation helps to meet the needs of human resource department ?
 Yes
 No
3. Does globalisation create issues and challenges for marketing department ?
 Highly
 Lightly
 No
4. Is globalisation makes worldwide income growth for the company ?
 Agree
 Strongly agree
 Disagree

 Strongly disagree
5. How many years company has been doing enterprise overseas ?
 Less than 1 year
 More than 2 years
6. Globalisation has increased the level of competition or not ?
 Extremely
 Average
 No Idea
7. Globalisation adds complexness for business operational department or not ?
 Yes
 No
LO 3
P5 Data analysis
Theme 1: Opportunity includes in globalisation for international trading to company
1. Does globalization increased the opportunities of trade environment for
company? Frequency
Yes 14
No 6

Yes No
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16
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Interpretation: As per section given data and scenario it has been analysed by researcher that
least large number of responsive were suggested positively on the opportunities of trade and
environment. As per the fourteen defendants decided with statements that yes, globalisation is
helpful to trade in the external market and create huge occasions such as variety of talented
employees, advanced technology, enhance number of customers, promote brand awareness into
new market etc. Contrary, six out of all answering were introduced none of globalisation creates
instead of chances risk, uncertainties, competition stress.
Theme 2: Meet needs of quality resource department
2. Does globalization helps to meet the needs of human resource department ? Frequency
Yes 16
No 4

Yes No
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16
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Column B
Interpretation: As per researcher, it has found how many people think that, globalisation
fulfilled needs of HR department. So, on that note, 16 of them were stated yes and give views in
affirmative terms. As per to them globalisation present & opened the gate for intelligent who
wants to work with multinational companies & also keep growing in the future. On the other
hand, according to them employees also said that globalisation create new work culture within
the company by having different though full employees. On the other hand, 4 of them were
presented their issues that due to diverse culture some employees creates conflicts and issues as
well.
Theme 3: Create issues and challenges for marketing department
3. Does globalization create issues and challenges for marketing department ? Frequency
Highly 4
Lightly 12
No 4