Managing Diversity and Equality: A Farmfoods Business Project

This project analyzes the strategies employed by Farmfoods, a major supermarket chain, to promote equality and diversity within its workforce. The project begins by establishing aims and objectives, followed by the construction of a project management plan that encompasses cost, time, scope, quality, communication, risk, and resources. A work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart are developed to visualize the project timeline and tasks. Small-scale research is conducted, employing both primary and secondary methods, including quantitative and qualitative questionnaires. The findings and data are presented using appropriate tools and techniques, with data visualizations and interpretations. The project culminates in recommendations for improving equality and diversity initiatives within Farmfoods, followed by a reflection on the value of the project's objectives. The project aims to understand how Farmfoods addresses equality and diversity, including strategies, research questions, and literature review. The research explores the meaning of equality and diversity, their impact on the workplace, and the advantages of a diverse workforce, including quantitative and qualitative methods, and data presentation with interpretation.

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Table of Contents
Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1) Devise project aims and objectives..................................................................................1
P2) Construct a project management plan..............................................................................3
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart..................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P4) Carry out small scale research applying primary and secondary methods......................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and technique....................................8
P6) Communicate appropriate recommendation as result of findings and data analysis.....14
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................15
P7) Reflect on the value of undertaking the projects to meet stated objectives...................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

TOPIC
“To consider the variety of strategies that is use by the business to expand the equality
and diversity inside the workforce” A case study Farmfoods.
INTRODUCTION
The equality and diversity is the term that is used to classify the human rights that
furthermore defines the values and belief of the company. It has related to the norm through
which the company provides the equal opportunity to the entire employee that get associated
within the company. In this the company will provide the better improvement to the entire
employee by whom they have achieved the best of their own potential and that completely free
from the discrimination and the prejudice (Andersson, 2018). Equality is all about to ensure that
all the employee get performed their work without getting faced the discrimination on the basis
of age, gender, religion, caste, race, community, background etc. Whereas, diversity is all about
to take the difference between the different personalities on the basis of their education,
experience, knowledge and skills as well. This report is based on Farmfoods that is the largest
supermarket chain in the British frozen food and it is based in the Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is
the company that has huge branches that get spread all around the UK as they are having the 300
stores. This report includes the project aim and objectives, project management plan and the
small scale research with the reflection.
TASK 1
P1) Devise project aims and objectives
The equality and diversity is being more important within the company and it is necessary
that the business have the talented and most skilled workforce rather than the people that belongs
from the similar regions. The individual performance will get improvised if they have more
likeness and have better growth within the business that always influence them to perform their
task with lot more efficiency (Banks, 2019).
Aim: “To consider the variety of strategies that is use by the business to expand the
equality and diversity inside the workforce” A case study Farmfoods.
Objectives:
 To manufacture an in sequence concerning equality and diversity in the workforce.
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 To conclude the strategy that is used by the corporation to increase equality and diversity
in the personnel.
 To organize compensate of equality and diversity in the workforce.
Research questions:
 What is meaning of the term equality and diversity in the company?
 How equality and diversity improvised the workplace of the company?
 Explain the advantages of encompass equality and diversity in a workforce?
Literature Review
What is meaning of the term equality and diversity in the company?
As per the viewpoint of Ruth Mayhew, 2017, equality and diversity have a lot of benefits
and get followed by the company on the basis of various concepts. Both the term are getting
intertwined as the equality is more dependent on the reception of the diversity by which the equal
treatment will get provided to all the employees (Bowl, 2018). Diversity is more relative to the
different concepts that will include the different traits that didn’t have any relation to the
personality of employees. It is the reality that it is the issue that has not been resolved from the
company and the people get differentiated on the basis of demographic, genetics, community etc.
Equality is the way through the employee gets treated within the company regardless of any race,
colour, gender etc.
How equality and diversity improvised the workplace of the company?
As per the viewpoint of Louise Petty, 2016, the aim behind the equality and diversity is to
get ensure that the individual having the equal opportunity within the company and in that they
have free from the harassment, victimisation, and discrimination and bullying. Some of the
company actively disallowing the people while measuring the success in their individual life just
because to get differentiate them on the basis of diversity. Whereas, diversity is an art through
which the thinking of all will independently comes all together. As in the year 2015, 31.21
million people work within the UK and all have the different opinions and have think different to
gain the higher achievements of success.
Explain the advantages of encompass equality and diversity in a workforce
As per the viewpoint of Anja Zojceska, 2018, diversity is related to the wider number of
people that get working within the company and in that they have the people that have different
characteristics (Cantle, 2018). It includes the people that belong from different religion, race,
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gender, orientation, abilities, education etc. It is the major goal of the company that they have the
best and talented workforce that performed their work with more easiness and comfort. It has
includes the people that belongs from the different perspectives, the faster solving approach
might get used by the employees, enhanced the profit, improved the hiring skills of the company
and many others too.
P2) Construct a project management plan
The Project management plan is a document that includes the different activities that has
been performed within the business while accomplishing the project in more satisfactory manner.
It has been used to make the better outcomes within the timely manner by which more
beneficiary result will get obtained that is more important for the growth of the business and
includes different activity that are as defined below as:
 Cost: It is related to the different price that get linked to the different activities that get
performed within the business as it helps to make the effectual change within the business
by the completion of the process (Dennissen, 2019). It is important to get allocated the
different cost by which the estimated budget will get maintained to perform the project in
systematic manner. In this the total amount that is assigned to the researcher is £68000
under this the project will get completed.
 Time: It is the particular time duration that is allocated to the different task that is
performed in order to complete the project in effective manner. The researcher could
takes the time period of 4 weeks while making the overall project and to comes with the
conclusion.
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 Scope: It will define the accessibility of the project that could be makes the beneficial
outcome for the company and thus they have make the better changes within the
company. It is the combination of all the diversified factors as cost, resources, time that is
required to complete the project.
 Quality: In this the researcher must get ensure that the business must get the better result
that is used to make the better change and improvisation in relation to the equality and
diversity (Hebson, 2018).
 Communication: It is more helpful and the key factor that is necessary while making the
effective communication within the respondents that is associate and needed to complete
the research in more efficient manner. It is even more useful as with the help of it the
researcher could get the different information in easier manner.
 Risk: The risk will get come in parallel to the project by which the researcher will be
more concern and imperative about the different aspect through which the better outcome
will get achieved in more successful manner. It is used to make the better result after
measuring all the relative consequences that is more important.
 Resources: It includes the different sources that is more required to get fulfil the project
requirement with more sufficiency and by ensuring that company gains the profit and the
research will get accomplished within the particular period of time. It includes the pen,
paper, telephone, employee, printers that are more required to get accomplished the
project.
P3) Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart
Gantt chart: It is a chart through which the research could assign the appropriate time to
each and every activity that is performed within the project. It has been generate more clarity
within the business by which the achievable outcomes get attained,
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Work Breakdown structure: It is the structure that is more used to get spread the better
awareness and in that the overall project get divided into the different slots by which more
accurate result will get attained and it is more reliable for the researcher while conducting the
research (Janssens, 2019).
TASK 2
P4) Carry out small scale research applying primary and secondary methods
Research is the adequate pattern that is followed by the researcher while publishing
something new within the market by making the successful understanding of the relevant
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information. It is the investigation that is performed to know more about the facts and figures by
which appropriate result will get attained.
Quantitative method: It is used to get collect the needed information that is collected
from the statistical formation and with that the appropriate result will get achieved. It is a method
through which the adequate learning will get leaned from the graphical representation by make
selective analysis (Kittay, 2019).
Qualitative method: It is the method through the data and information will get flowed by
making the open end communication and it has generate more liability by which the facts get
understand with more relevancy. It is mostly uses by the researcher by which they have more
creativenesses and result will get attained with more simplicity.
 Primary source: It is the sources through which a lot of data will be collected for first
time by which they have make the better communication with the respondents.
 Secondary sources: In this source the data is collected from the published journals,
newspaper, books, articles etc. It has been used to make the better relevancy through
which they get more confident and make better profit.
Sampling: It is the sample that is used by the researcher to get better knowledge and with
that the researcher selects the sample size of 40 numbers of respondents.
Questionnaire
Quantitative questions
Q1) Did you know the meaning of equality and diversity?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Is equality and diversity is necessary for business?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Do equality and diversity survive is Farmwoods?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) How Farmwoods indulgence their employee?
a) Indiscriminate recruitment
b) Having variety of work
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Q5) What is the indication of the equality and diversity within the business?
a) Engaged employees
b) Include in decision making
c) Valued indiscriminately
Q6) Is equality and diversity is critical within the Farmwoods?
a) Increased innovations
b) Reputation of company
c) Competitive edge
Q7) What is the collision of equality and diversity within the Farmwoods?
a) Improved performance
b) Increased job satisfaction
Q8) What are the arrival of equality and diversity inside Farmwoods?
a) Increased productivity
b) Increased employee retention
c) Better brand image
Qualitative questions
Q9) Describe the diverse strategies that help Farmwoods emphasis equality and diversity?
 Participative leadership
 Training and development
Q10) How Farmwoods realize these strategies within the dealing?
a) Modify the style of leadership
b) Appraisals as per performance
c) Provide equal opportunity
Q11) Recommendation
TASK 3
P5) Present findings and data using appropriate tools and technique
Q1) Did you know the meaning of equality and
diversity?
Frequency
Yes 35
No 05
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Yes
No
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: As from the above graph it is summarised that out of the 40 number of
respondent, 35 are those that has knowledge about the important of equality and diversity while
the other 5 respondent doesn’t have much knowledge (Leavy, 2018).
Q2) Is equality and diversity is necessary for
business?
Frequency
Yes 25
No 15
Yes
No
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: As from the above graph it has been episodic that out of 40 respondents,
25 are the one that believe that equality and diversity is more important for the business while
the rest 15 are those that has didn’t feel the same and also didn’t get affected by that.
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Q3) Do equality and diversity survive is
Farmwoods?
Frequency
Yes 30
No 10
Yes
No
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: As from the above graph it is noticed that Farmfoods has maintain and support
the quality and diversity. As in that out of 40 respondents 30 are those that believes the same
while the rest 10 didn’t have share the same feelings.
Q4) How Farmwoods indulgence their employee? Frequency
Indiscriminate recruitment 30
Having variety of work 10
Indiscriminate recruitment
Having variety of work
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: As from the above graph it is measured that Farmfoods has indulge that
employee as per the basis of the equality and diversity in that out of 40 respondents, 30 are those
that felt that they have indiscriminate recruitment and the rest believes that 10 have that variety
of the work.
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