Project Management Plan for Nestle's Global Expansion

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UNIT 6 MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PROJECT
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
LO1 Establish project aims, objectives and timeframes based on the chosen theme................5
P1. Devise project aims and objectives for the chosen topic as specified above in the
assignment brief......................................................................................................................5
P2. Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality,
communication, risk, and resources.......................................................................................6
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to provide timeframes and stages
for completion........................................................................................................................8
M1 Produce a comprehensive project management plan, milestone schedule and project
schedule for monitoring and completing the aims and objectives of the project.................10
LO2 Conduct small-scale research, information gathering and data collection, generating
knowledge to support the project.............................................................................................11
P4 Carry out small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research
methods appropriate for meeting project aims and objectives.............................................11
M2 Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of different research methods applied................14
D1 Critically evaluate the project management process and appropriate research
methodologies applied..........................................................................................................15
LO3 Present the project and communicate appropriate recommendations based on meaningful
conclusions drawn from the evidence findings and or analysis...............................................16
P5 Analyse research and data using appropriate tools and techniques................................16
P6 Communicate appropriate recommendations as a result of research and data analysis to
draw valid and meaningful conclusions...............................................................................27
M3 Evaluate the selection of appropriate tools and techniques for accuracy and authenticity
to support and justify recommendations...............................................................................28
LO4 Reflect on the value from conducting the project and its usefulness to support
sustainable organisational performance...................................................................................29
P7 Reflect on the value of undertaking the research to meet stated objectives and own
learning and performance.....................................................................................................29
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M4 Evaluate the value of the project management process and use of quality research to
meet stated objectives and support own learning and performance.....................................30
D2 Critically evaluate and reflect on the project outcomes, the decision making process and
changes or developments of the initial project management plan to support justification of
recommendations and learning during the project...............................................................31
Conclusion................................................................................................................................32
References................................................................................................................................33
Appendix..................................................................................................................................34
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Introduction
In the present time of globalisation every company wants to enter international markets to
expand their brand name and acquire more markets. Nestle is one of the companies that wants
to mark their presence in international markets. For this purpose they must make changes to
their existing recruitment, selection and training process. They may also have to introduce
new recruitment and training process so that they can maintain a comfortable working
environment for the potential employees in the international market. This particular research
will be focusing on such methods and what different types of changes may be required for
Nestle to move forward in the global market. For this a primary research will be done which
will collect data from existing employees and managers on their insights on how to change
the existing recruitment process. Questionnaires will be used to collect relevant data from the
employees and managers which help in introducing the changes required. A Gantt chart will
be prepared to efficiently manage time for this project along with a work breakdown structure
that will also help in successfully managing the project.
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LO1 Establish project aims, objectives and timeframes based on the chosen theme
P1. Devise project aims and objectives for the chosen topic as specified above in the
assignment brief
Project Aim
The current aim of the Nestle is to enter in the international market. Due to which it requires
to adopt some new strategy of recruitment, selection and training process. This research aims
to plan effectively and efficiently. Nestle needs to maintain an international standard of the
method by which international applicants. In this project, Nestle identifies what its
requirement is and how it will improve its standard to meet with global demand. Nestle needs
to expand its business to explore its strategies and approach. By this project, project manager
enhances the performance and capacity of the company to establish an excellent human
resource in the company (Stobbs,et.al., 2018). For this purpose, Nestle needs to compare with
the UK and another country candidate. It requires complete research according to the
experience and qualification of the candidate. Training method must need to identify and
implement to achieve success in the globalization (Coller, et.al., 2018).
Objectives
 To identify what are the different recruitment method in multinational companies and
how Nestle will adopt efficiently adopt these methods. It maximizes the efficiency in
the recruitment process and the company will able to hire qualified and skilful
employees.
 To evaluate the opportunities due to globalization like increment target market,
business expansion, enhance brand awareness. By this strategy commonly will able to
improve its standard in existing and another market as well. To grab those
opportunities, it requires entering an international market with qualified and trained
human resource.
 To explore the training methods applied in multinational companies like online
training, on-job training etc. These training methods will not only able to give
information about the working culture of the organization but also polish their skills
as well.
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 To conduct research and implement activities which have the potential to gather
relevant information regarding the project.
P2. Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality,
communication, risk, and resources.
Scope: The scope of this project is to identify recruitment, selection and training method
applied by the Nestle. Globalization gives positive impact on the organization like Nestle get
opportunities from foreign resources, enlargement in share etc.
Project Cost: Project cost is the most significant aspect of the project. It consists of the costs
of resource required in the project, human resource cost, research cost, financial and technical
cost. The estimated cost of this project is £30,000 (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017).
Time: It is, again, a most important concept in the project. The management of time ensures
that how activity and action are performing during the complete project. If the researcher
performs its activity according to planning, there is a chance that the project will reach its
success. This project requires at least six weeks accomplishing the project. The project leads
to distribute the task according to the skills of its team member (Fleming, 2019).
Quality: Project quality will be achieved when the project completed in a specified time. It
also needs to be responsible to complete utilization of human, technical and other resources.
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Project requirements Cost (£)
Human resource cost 10,000
Research cost 5,000
Data collection cost 2,000
Analysis cost 6,000
Technical cost 7,000
Total Cost £30,000

The evaluation of quality is based on efficient followed Gantt chart, work break down
structures (Huang, et.al., 2019).
Communication: Effective project needs to be applied to a different channel of
communication. The project manager needs to interact with stakeholder, investors, employees
etc. It helps to make a better decision in the organization strategies.
Risk: Project may face various issues during the project accomplishment. The potential risk
of this project such as extendable time limit, resource requirement, avoids risk etc.
Resources: Nestles requires such resource to establish this project successfully. Human
resource, financial resource, technical resources are essentially required for this project.
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P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to provide timeframes and
stages for completion.
Table 1: Work-Breakdown Structure
Figure 1Work Break down Structure
Source: Author
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Globalization
Planning
Timescale Scope Analysis
Requirement
Resource Budget
Designing
Decisiom Making
Monitoring
Quality Check Testing
Implementation
Analysis

Table 2: Gantt chart
Duration (In week)
Activities 1 2 3 4 5 6
Planning
Requirement
Designing
Monitoring
Implementation
Figure 2 Gantt chart
Source: Author
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M1 Produce a comprehensive project management plan, milestone schedule and project
schedule for monitoring and completing the aims and objectives of the project.
The project management plan includes resource, cost and another important aspect. But out
of these factors project must need to focus on the project scope, planning of the project,
scheduling of the project and always considers the aim of the project then implement the
further task.
Planning of Scope: Nestle identifies the best recruitment method which helps in extracting
the qualified and skilful candidate from the crowd of the candidate. The scope will be clearly
defined that they required only those candidate who is a favourable shift on other countries as
well (Ling and Hobday, 2019).
Project Schedule: The schedule of this project is connected need to connect with each and
every activity performed to achieve success. It creates a boundary regarding budget and
timescale.
Project Milestone: The project milestone helps to enhance the performance and increases the
quality. It determines that previously task was accomplished entirely. All the activities are
dependent on each other. Hence, on behalf of the previous task, the next mission will be
performed (Sanghera, 2019).
Milestone 1: Planning
Milestone 2: Requirement
Milestone 3: Designing
Milestone 4: Monitoring
Milestone 5: Implementation
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LO2 Conduct small-scale research, information gathering and data collection,
generating knowledge to support the project.
P4 Carry out small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research
methods appropriate for meeting project aims and objectives.
Nestle needs to implement its research to identify the recent method of recruitment,
remuneration and training method in the organization. For this research, the mixed method
research will be used, i.e. primary and secondary research both. In primary research, the data
collected from the employees and its manger. The secondary research will be based on the
annual report of the company, journal and newspaper.
Qualitative Research
According to the Steenkamp (2019 ), companies need to enter the international market to
achieve their respective goal. Globalization brings various opportunities to the organization
like the beneficial resource, increases brand awareness, expand business in the target market
and collaboration with other multinational companies.
In the opinion Lau ,(2019 ) on-campus placement will be beneficial for any organization. The
reason behind is that individual put its all effort to prove its skills. It will be helpful to
organization growth and expand further in another target market as well.
Quantitative Research
According to the researcher, quantitative research is also beneficial for this research. It
expands far knowledge regarding the same research topic. Due to this, it would be analysing
the opinion and knowledge of respective individual who are already connect directly or
indirectly with the company. The researcher has prepared the questionnaire regarding the
topic of research i.e. recruitment, selection and training method for Nestle (Richards, et.al.,
2019)
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Questionnaire
1. Is the company need to adopt new methods or approach for recruitment, selection
and training process?
A. Yes
B .No
2. Is globalization helps Nestle to expand its business in the international market?
A. Yes
B. No
C. I don’t know
3. What kind of recruitment method will you prefer in Nestle?
A. On-Campus recruitment
B. Post on website
C. By consultancy services
4. What kind of selection method must use by the company?
A. Qualification
B. Experience
C. Both
5. Are you agree that on-job training improves the performance of the organization in
the international market?
A. Agreed
B. Disagreed
C. Highly Agree
D. Strongly Disagree
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