Business Project Management Report: Equality & Diversity at Sainsbury

This report delves into the realm of project management, using Sainsbury as a case study to explore the implementation of equality and diversity strategies within a business context. It begins by outlining the aim and objectives of the project, emphasizing the importance of a diverse workforce and its impact on organizational performance. The report then details the project management plan, covering key aspects such as scope, resources, communication, cost, and time management. It further elucidates the use of project management tools like Gantt charts and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for effective project execution and timeline adherence. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of workforce diversity management, highlighting the role of project management tools in achieving organizational goals and fostering a positive work environment. The report includes references to support the analysis.

MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART A
Introduction
Develop of project aim and objective
Development of project management plan
Explanation about Gantt chart and WBS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Employees or individuals are most important asset of an organisation that is
leading management to complete their project in an appropriate manner.
In the present scenario, most of organisation manage diverse workforce
for performing their functions at global level. Sainsbury is selected
company for this report which is a retail enterprise and performs their
work in international market (Abankina and et. al., 2016). The issue of
equality and diverse workforce relates with socio-culture issue,
performance appraisal of employees for solving conflicts between diverse
workforce. Moreover, this report focus on aim, objective and plan related
with the topic of equality and diversity.

Develop aim and objective of project
Retail industry is increasing their business constantly by fulfilling customer needs
and wants on daily basis. On the other side, Globalisation is impacting on
company operations due to which its business size is directly impacted.
Therefore, team management is an important factor that is leading company for
selecting and engaging right individuals in organisation operations. Along with
this it is also leads Sainsbury for implementing diverse and equality workforce in
internal department of organisation.

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Project management- The term project management is defined as an
application of methods, knowledge skill and processes which is used by
organisation for accomplishing specific project with obtaining desired
results from project operations.
Key stages of project management- Project are designed by company to
complete work in an organised manner. This also refers there are five phase
of project management are included by Sainsbury which are initiation,
planning, execution, monitoring and closing of project which all are
motivated towards completing of organisation project in a professional
manner.

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Aim- The aim of Sainsbury is to accomplish competitive edge in market by
implementing equality and diversity strategy that improve employee’s
performance. A study report on Sainsbury.
Objective
 To create alertness among workforce for the policy that relates with
diverse and equality in organisation.
 For understanding all factors which is enlightening productivity of
workforce.
 To identify the potential benefits that relates with equality policy and
strategy.

DEVELOP OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PLAN BY UNDERTAKING ALL ESSENTIAL
ASPECTS
 Project management plan define and undertakes each phase for project
plan. Planning, executing, monitoring etc. are essential elements for a
project. Important aspect of project management is as follow:
 Scope- The scope of study related with human workforce is too wide and
with analyse of all project it is identified human engagement is important
among all company operations. So it also consider that scope for
managing diverse workforce is too wide and in context of research
teammates and respondents also relates with different culture (Ishaq and
Hussain, 2014). So it is essential for researcher to undertake relevant
study of research to obtain right and relevant result from research.

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 Resources- Research is completed by engaging right resources which
leads researcher to complete all work in an organised manner. There are
different resources required by organisation which are Laptop, paper,
technology, internet, printer etc. for completion of research in an accurate
manner. This governs that by use of right resources it is easy for
researcher to complete research with using right information.
 Communication- So as to achieve wanted outcomes correspondence is
outstanding amongst other successful technique which drives specialist to
move and offer all data among all colleagues of association. Alongside
this there are diverse specialized devices is required by analyst, for
example, cell phone, web and so on which prompts select right data and
furthermore to convey them in a proper way (Klarsfeld and et. al., 2016).

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 Cost- In the current situation, with the expansion in number of
exploration venture it is distinguished by scientist that cost for finishing
venture is additionally upgrading. The assessed sum for finishing
research is evaluated with measure of £300. With regards to cost it is
distinguished by specialist that the expense is utilized by the executives
to acquisition of books, printer and to pay travel costs. It results research
is finished by analyst inside chose spending plan.
 Time- As indicated by chose timeframe which is accommodated finishing
research relates with seven weeks in which analyst oversee venture points
and targets. With regards to finishing work it is utilized in overseeing
venture through which undertaking are finished according to plan.

EXPLANATION ABOUT GANTT CHART
AND WORK BREAK DOWN STRUCTURE
 Gantt chart- It is used by an organisation to represent the project in the
form of horizontal lines. With the involvement of an effective Gantt chart
it is identified that an organisation is able to complete all work with
decided time period. Along with this it also consider that management is
completing their operations and functions according to decided time
period with help of managing organisational teams (Lusted, 2014).
Further, Gantt chart also represent all information that is used by
researcher for the completion of project in decided phase through
completing organisational work with project plan and the schedule of all
activities to complete project as per decided time period.

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 Work break down structure- According to the WBS it is identified that
it one of the most effective tool which leads organisation for completion
of their work by delegating into short time project deliverables. This
defines the main role of work break down structure is to decompose a
large project into small components (Neugebauer, 2014). So it is easy for
organisation and researcher to understand all information which also
leads to complete all work with organised steps. It results management
obtain effective results from research and in context of company it is
used to integrate better schedule in order to align activities properly.

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CONCLUSION
In the last, by the analyses of all above information it is concluded that workforce
diversity must be managed in the organisation for completion of project in an effective
manner. This project is used to study about workforce requirements and managing
them to work according to decided goals. It also defines with adopting policy and
strategy related with human employee’s better interaction is generated among all
engaged workforce. Small scale research is also conducted in the organisation for
managing all employees in proper manner. Gantt chart and WBS are project
management tool which leads to complete all task in decided time period. In the
reflection on the project value to accomplish organisational goals is included in the
report.

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