Strategies for Managing a Successful Business Project: ASDA Case Study

This report analyzes ASDA's strategies for managing an inclusive workforce. It begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of diversity in today's competitive market. Task 1 covers aims, objectives, and research questions related to inclusive workforces, followed by a literature review that defines inclusive workforce elements and strategies. The project management plan includes cost, time, scope, quality, communication, risk, and resources, as well as Gantt charts and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). Task 2 presents a small-scale research study, including quantitative and qualitative methods, sampling, and a questionnaire. The report interprets the findings and provides recommendations for improving ASDA's inclusive workforce practices. Task 3 includes a reflection on the overall project, and the report concludes by summarizing the key points and findings. References are provided to support the research and analysis.

MANAGING A
SUCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT

TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Aims and objectives................................................................................................................3
P2 Project management plan........................................................................................................5
P3 Gantt chart and WBS..............................................................................................................7
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................10
P4 Small scale research..............................................................................................................10
P5 Interpretation of findings......................................................................................................12
P6 Recommendations.................................................................................................................18
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................18
P7 Reflection..............................................................................................................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................19
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................20

TOPIC
“Strategies are to be determined with initiatives which leads towards developing of
inclusive form of workforce”. Case study is based on ASDA plc.
INTRODUCTION
In today world there has been an increase in the competition within market and has
impacted the expansion of an organization in drastic manner. This is considered to be one of the
most important part of organization as it introduces talent among workforce with uniqueness in
ideas. It helps in creating of coordination among the workers or employees that enhances result
achieving capacity of an organization. Having an diverse workforce has become new trend in an
organization. Under such kind of workforce there are various kinds of skill, talent background
and has an important role top play in enhancing of competitiveness within market. An inclusive
work force is one of the most affective thing that has been helpful for an organization to help in
attaining of goals and objectives. ASDA is an organization that has been set-up in UK was
established in the year 1914. This is an supermarket brand that has been selling all kinds of
products even households. In this report inclusive workforce is being covered. Such strategies
has been explained with formation of working environment. In this the research has been done
upon small scale and tool are being used.
TASK 1
P1 Aims and objectives
Under inclusive kind of workforce there is diversity in the workers and has been present
in that organization willing to adopt such kind of workforce. As per this workforce there has
been an diverse working culture in the workers of an organization. Also such employees plays an
very important role in helping in taking decision by getting themselves involved within decision
mechanism. It makes the workers more committed towards an organizations. It is one of the most
efficient method which has been helpful in achieving of goals that results into task
accomplishment within the time limit specified. All issues that has come into an organizations
has to be solved by the employees and help in gaining of positive environment (Wen and Qiang,
2019).

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Aim: “Strategies has to determine over an procedure that is going to help within an
organization for managing of inclusive workforce”. Case study is upon ASDA.
Objectives:
 Information about inclusive workforce has to be gained.
 Strategies should be determined with an initiative to be used by ASDA in order to make
diverse workforce.
 Identification of advantages over workforce in an organisation.
Research Questions:
 Meaning of an inclusive kind of workforce?\
 Strategies and initiative to be used by an organization to Managing a Successful Business
Project under diverse workforce?
 Advantages and disadvantages of workforce that is diverse?
Literature Review
Inclusive workforce in a company
According to ….... under inclusive workforce within an organization is considered to be
having various elements like background, cast, religion, age and talent has been included under
it. Such an important part in an organization is going to create equality within an organization.
This also makes organization valuable. A employee is required to be there in organization with
motivation and creativeness. It is helpful in gaining of appraisal in order to keep him buzzy with
an organization. Also involving of an organization has helped in making appraisal possible.
Innovation has been helped towards making increment in turnover of employee. This makes
involvement of employee in an organisation. Over work performance and enhancement this has
to be there in helping over goal achievement in proper way (Ul Musawir and et. al., 2017).
Strategies for building an inclusive and diverse workforce
Lot of strategies are there in an organisation which has to be required over helping in
formation of workforce which has to be inclusive in nature and this leads over creating of benefit
related over achieving of goals in efficient way. Training and development programs is going to
be helpful in making employees understanding of work and doing it with togetherness. This is
leading over increasing of tolerance over working with each other. Engaging of employees is one

of the most efficient that helps in gaining of participative leadership. An employee should
include and decision making is helpful over uplifting value over though and ideas. It is going to
have confidence and commitment in an organisation. Performance should be praised and leads
over performance judging employee that leads enhancement of performance with inclusive
workforce.
Advantages of having inclusive and diverse workforce
In such economic globalization within an organization is required to put most impact for
creating of diverse workforce which is there to those employees having skill and talent that is
required to be there within an organization. Also this has helped in enhancing over employees
and its performance over working is going to be impacted. It make increasing of performance of
employees because of there working. This also improvises under brand image of an organization
which is helpful in making large base and talent within an organization. It is helpful in enhancing
over organizations performance.
P2 Project management plan
This means proper documentation is required over approving that is going to play an
effective role to enhance the execution, monitoring and controlling task. All this is helpful in
determining of goals and objectives in order to solve problem that is helpful in over completing
of project (Ravankar, Imai and Ravankar, 2019).
Also this is going to determine essential component of a project for attaining of desired result:
Cost: All this is required because of it is helpful in managing of all the elements that is being
required to an project over helping in order to understand the finances that is being required
within a project because it ad is important to understand the cost which is required to understand
total cost in order to accomplish a particular task. Also this makes budget to be made as per the
requirement of an organization and task it has to achieve. To complete research it is required that
there should be total fund of £68000. It make goal to be accomplished in efficient manner.

 Time: It is also considered to be an important part as this makes the task completed
within the required period of time and is also helpful in performing research to
accomplish a project. Also it makes research possible and helps in managing of fund in
important manner. The time limit for a project has to be 3 weeks (Rahman, Wittman and
Thabet, 2016). Scope: This has been related to provide documentation of a goal that has been given in
specific manner and is required to achieve all the aspects of an organization with the
deadline. It has to help in performing and completing of project in a limited period of
time. It helps in making a scope specified within project and action that has to be taken
into consideration of project. Quality: In a research it has an very important role to play in an research which is helpful
in dealing with the quality of work that is being done in a project. Also collection of data
is also very helpful but only from an trustable source. As this leads over maintaining of
high quality project that has made increase in efficiency over achievement.
 Communication: This is also helpful in order to establish efficiency within
communication among members of team. In order to make coordination to be achieved at
the time of working. It is helpful in making of strong relationship and keeping
coordination alive through various types of modes. Communication is one of the most
affective tool which has made efficient achievement possible. It can be done through
internet, computers, mobiles and other devices.

 Risk: It is one of the most important thing that is regarding research as this is going to
make identification of result an operations which are to be performed when the project
has to be done. It is such impactful that if gone wrong then it is going to make project
ban. It leads over forming of better strategies that result into attaining of result in more
effective manner (Parida, Patel, Frishammar and Wincent, 2017).
 Resources: These are very important that is required to carry the project which are
required to be used during project. It includes office, printers, mobile phone, technical
assistance and logistics such resources are to be used. These are also one of the basic
requirement of an project and without this an project cannot be done. These are related to
aspects like collection of data . This has to be taken into account because it directly
affects the quality and project work. It includes data collection fro reliable source.
P3 Gantt chart and WBS
Gantt chart: In this chart different time lines has been explained which are helpful in
dealing with time period required to be invested within various stages of a project. Also it deals
over the time required to operate a day to day activity in order to make and objective achievable
within specified time period. This is being utilized within a project to achieve and accomplish
time that has been specified for it (Narayanan and et. al., 2020).

Work Breakdown structure: Also the structure that is been given above specifically
explains about time required for accomplishing of both task and sub task. It removes the complex
part of a project that has is difficult to achieve. Such method is very reliable and can manage all
activities of a project in specific manner (Midler, 2019). Also tasks is being divided various parts
which makes it easily to be done and within a time period specified for it.

TASK 2
P4 Small scale research
Research is a systematic investigation that is being conducted to gain the sustain
knowledge about some specified topic and that information get collected in appropriate manner
so as to make the adequate understanding of certain content. In this researcher collects the
different information as from the various sources in order to make the validate interpretation.
There are basically two type of data as like primary and secondary or in the form of qualitative
and quantitative that assist to complete the research in sufficient manner.
Quantitative method: It is a method in which the information is collected as from the
statistical formulation, mathematical implementation or numerical analysis that is as collected in
the form of questionnaire, polls and survey. The researcher manipulate pre-existing data with the
support of computational techniques. It has been used to quantify the problem or issue that get
transformed as from the numerical data to usable statistics (Marnewick, 2016).
Qualitative method: It is an approach that is used by the researcher while collecting
information which is more based on the non-numerical and unstructured data. It helps to make
the critical understanding about the topic and focuses on gathering of data through the open
ended communication and interaction. In this focus get maintained over the words instead of
numbers as to make the deep apprehension.
 Primary source: This source is based on the collection of different information as from
conducting survey, questionnaire, review and collection of feedback and that all is
conduced for the first time by researcher.
 Secondary sources: It is a source in which the information get collected as from the
previously published data as like from the journals, articles, magazine, newspaper etc. it
is used to leverage the better analysis or to examine the different prospect
Sampling: It is a process through which researcher select the appropriate population as
from the complete one and then make an integrated research on them to gain the better and
collective outcomes. In this the sample size of this research is 30.

Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Do you understand the meaning of inclusiveness within the workforce?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Do you believe that assorted and inclusion employee are vital for the growth of business?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Is ASDA maintain equality and diverseness within the workforce?
 Yes
 No
Q4) How company promote diverseness culture within the employees?
 Undiscriminating enlisting
 Having assortment of employment
Q5) What do you understand by the inclusion workers?
 Involved worker
 Regard in decision making
 Quantitative randomly
Q6) What advantage did ASDA get by promoting diverse culture inside the business?
 Accumulated initiate
 Honour of organisation
 Competitors bound
Q7) How ASDA uses and develop the inclusive workers in the company?
 Reinforced execution
 Accumulated job contentment
Q8) What are the advantage that business get by the usage of inclusiveness?
 Enhanced productiveness
 Accrued worker holding
 Amended brand name image
Qualitative questions
Q9) What are the initiative that is taken by the company in order to promote the diverseness

among the employees?
 Training and development
 Participative leadership
Q10) What are the different prospect under which ASDA induces different strategy within the
company?
 Change in leadership style
 Performance appraisals
 Equal opportunities to all
Q11) Recommendation
P5 Interpretation of findings
Q1) Do you understand the meaning of
inclusiveness within the workforce?
Frequency
Yes 20
No 10
In the above graph 30 respondents has been taken within an organization. 20 is of the
opinion that inclusiveness should be there within employee. The other 10 employees thinks that
there should be no inclusiveness within workforce of an organization. So, outcome of above
graph is that inclusiveness should be there in an organization that promotes positive working
(Loufrani-Fedida and Saglietto, 2016).
Q2) Do you believe that assorted and inclusion Frequency
Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
25
10

employee are vital for the growth of business?
Yes 20
No 10
From the above graph it can be understood that out of 30 respondents. 20 employees
working posses different skills. Rest 10 dos not agree over it. Inclusion and assorted employees
are vital for growth as they posses skills which strengthens decision making and makes goals to
be achieved.
Q3) Is ASDA maintain equality and
diverseness within the workforce?
Frequency
Yes 22
No 8
Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25
20
10
Yes No
0
5
10
15
20
25
22
8

In this graph 30 respondents has been taken from which 22 is of the opinion that equality
and diverseness exists within ASDA. Rest 8 is of opinion that equality and diverseness should
not be there. Out come from the graph is that equality and diverseness exist which makes
integration and productivity increase within ASDA (Goggin and et. al, 2019).
Q4) How company promote diverseness culture
within the employees?
Frequency
Undiscriminating enlisting 18
Having assortment of employment 12
In the above graph there are 30 respondent out of which 18 is of the opinion that non
discrimination exists within the organization. Rest 12 is of opinion that assortment of employees
is there. It can be marked that non discrimination exists that promotes diverse culture and make
work completed in efficient manner (Naik and Jenkins, 2019).
Q5) What do you understand by the inclusion
workers?
Frequency
Involved worker 12
Regard in decision making 10
Quantitative randomly 8
Undiscriminating enlisting Having assortment of employment
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
18
12

It can be seen that there are 30 respondents Out of which 12 says that workers are
involved within working of organization and 10 is of the opinion that employees should be
included in decision making process. Rest 8 thinks that quantitative randomization has been
offered for better values to employees.
Q6) What advantage did ASDA get by
promoting diverse culture inside the business?
Frequency
Accumulated initiate 10
Honour of organisation 10
Competitors bound 10
Involved worker
Regard in decision making
Quantitative randomly
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
12
10
8

In this 30 respondents are there from which 10 believes that accumulated intention should
be there and other 10 is of opinion that honour is provided within an organization. Rest 10
believes that it helps in attaining of better competitiveness.
Q7) How ASDA uses and develop the inclusive
workers in the company?
Frequency
Reinforced execution 19
Accumulated job contentment 11
The above graph shows that ASDA uses the inclusiveness within the workforce as in this
19 of employee believe it is due to the reinforced execution while the rest 11 believe it is due to
the accumulated of job contentment (Falzani and Kirkham, 2017).
Q8) What are the advantage that business get by Frequency
Accumulated initiate Honour of organisation Competitors bound
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
10 10 10
Reinforced execution Accumulated job contentment
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20 19
11

the usage of inclusiveness?
Enhanced productiveness 13
Accrued worker holding 10
Amended brand name image 7
In the above graph there are 30 respondent out of which 13 says that productivity is
increased because of inclusive workforce. Other 10 is of opinion that accuracy in working is hold
within an organization. Rest 8 is of the opinion that brand image improves due to this. So, it can
be seen that organization is highly beneficial over increasing involvement of employees and
makes organization gain benefit from it.
Q9) What are the strategies that can
help in building an included and
dissimilar staff?
Explanation
Training and development As per the program it has been able to provide that the
requiring skills and talents to workers opting to be a
part of it and is also helpful in making coordination
among workers (umblauskas, Rosol and Bumblauskas,
2018). This has helped in increasing of integrated
Enhanced productiveness
Accrued worker holding
Amended brand name image
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14 13
10
7

working environment that is going to increase
efficiency over working together.
Participative leadership Under such leadership style that has been enhancing
and encouraging the participation of workers within
decision making mechanism and enhances the working
environment.
Q10) How can the strategies be
implemented in company?
Explanation
Change in leadership style Participating leadership should be innovative and
leaders should focus upon evaluating employees in
order to enhance performance of employees and this
is going to value the organization.
Performance appraisals It has helped in order to increase employee’s
performance and has made it enhanced despite of
having diverse nature among workers.
Equal opportunities to all Such opportunities leads towards motivation of
employees and give them opportunity to show there
talent with skills.
P6 Recommendations
The above analysis it can be marked out that benefit is going to be there for ASDA. On
making such strategies as a part of the organizations working culture as this makes working
environment free from negative aspects like discrimination and harassment and makes profit
achievable. Further recommendation has been explained as follows:
 Opportunities given to employees should be developed and an organization has to be
helpful in order to develop satisfaction at job through equality and equal opportunities.
 Communication is also a key aspect that has been developed to make relationship
stronger and effective communication helps in passing of information in correct manner
to generate better results.

 Engaging of employees has to include workers and has to take decision that has to be
valued in order to improvise performance.
TASK 3
P7 Reflection
The above research is prepared on the basis of examining strategies which can be used in
order to introduce diverse workforce in ASDA. This is helpful in enhancing business standards
and providing appropriate training criteria to the business by which overall productivity and
efficacy in easy manner. Diversity is also essential in providing employees the abilities of
enlarging their productivity and knowledge so that overall credibility can be enhanced. So under
this I have analysed various aspects of each situation which are providing higher impact to the
business and their credibility. I have used such tactics by which business can enhance their work
flow and deal with market prominence as well. I have learned regarding impact of diversity
within business functions of ASDA and strategies adopted by them in order to manage diversity
within business. I have undertaken my communication skills and critical skills in order to
complete this research program in effective manner. With the use of Gantt chart and WBS I
divided activities in equitable manner so that to gain efficiency in my research project. With the
help of my management skills I understood all the required concepts in prominent way which
lead me to acquire appropriate results which are aligned to research goals. During this research I
analysed that I am weak in communication and decision making skills, so by taking various
sessions and handling team I gathered knowledge regarding all the aspects and attained
sufficiency in this research.
The method that has been used by me during the research is sampling method. Other
method that could have been proved to be effective is questionnaire method which could have
helped in gaining data about ASDA. This has helped me in gaining knowledge about importance
of diverse workforce. Difficulties faced my me is to make sure that appropriate and accurate
answer is generated. In future I can cover the difficulty by collecting data in more appropriate
manner.

CONCLUSION
From this file it can be concluded that diverse work force is considered to be one of the
most important part of an organization. Such things make decision making process enhance and
give space to employee by making him feel valuable in an organization. Improvising of
performance can also be achieved by gaining of competitive edge within market. It also creates
brand image of an organization. Profit is increased and talent in an organization is being attracted
in worker of an organization. Different strategies can be adopted by an organization to achieve a
diverse work force.

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