BTEC Higher Nationals: Managing a Successful Business Project Report

This project report examines the critical aspects of managing a successful business project, focusing on equality and diversity within a corporate environment. The report begins with an introduction to the significance of equality and diversity in promoting equal opportunities and discusses relevant legal considerations. Task 1 presents a research background, aiming to study the impacts of diversity and equality on employee performance, using ASDA as a case study. It outlines the research objectives, questions, and a project management plan, including costs, scope, quality, risk, and timelines. A Gantt chart and work breakdown structure are also included. Task 2 details the research methodology, including data collection methods, both primary (surveys, questionnaires) and secondary sources, and the use of qualitative and quantitative methods. The report presents and interprets data from a survey, analyzing themes such as the positive impact of diversity and equality, diverse practices followed by ASDA, and employee perspectives on diversity. The data interpretation is supported by charts and tables, leading to recommendations. The project concludes with a reflection on the research process and findings.

MANAGING A
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1 Research background.............................................................................................................3
P2 Project management plan.......................................................................................................4
P3 Gantt chart and breakdown structure......................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Research Methodology...........................................................................................................6
P5 Data Interpretation..................................................................................................................9
P6 Recommendation..................................................................................................................20
P7 Reflection..............................................................................................................................21
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................22
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity has been termed as the important aspects which is promoting the
equality and level of opportunity having the level of diversity. This provides the level of
opportunity to each individual in order to achieve the level of potentiality which is free from
prejudice and discrimination. In the country like united kingdom there are existence of various
laws to have proper promotion in equality ans diversity belonging to the legal consideration. The
diverse level of environment is place of various values as per the background of individual,
knowledge and skills with experience and focus, This will help as in creating the positive,
productive and effective internal and external level of working environment.
TASK 1
P1 Research background.
Many companies are having the increase level of human resource management activities
in order to have proper level of development of different strategies which are related to equality
and diversity. This helps in building the forward thought process in business along with proper
guidance of legals communication in order to have proper level of improvement in
productiveness of corporate along with development opportunities of business ans
competitiveness. ASDA have implementation of various strategies in order to have proper
diversity and equality in development of mutual level of understanding which makes the
company more effective in having proper understanding of different pros and cons of the cultural
differences.
Aim
To study the impacts of various diversity and equality (D&E) of business on employee in
providing competitive edge in market- A case study on ASDA.
Objective
 To study the impacts of diversity and equality on performance of employees in ASDA.
 To evaluate the various strategies used by the company in promoting the level of (D&E).
 To determine the various challenges faced by company in implementation of (D&E) for
development in corporate structure.

Research Questions
 What is the impacts of diversity and equality on performance of employees in ASDA?
 What are the various strategies used by the company in promoting the level of (D&E)?
 Which are challenges faced by company in implementation of (D&E) ?
P2 Project management plan
Cost- It is very important element of a efficient project management plan because it describe the
overall cost that are used for completing the tasks on time. To fulfil the research task and
advantage to correct and relevant subject matter in specific time the investigator will require £
7000. Moreover, the company needs to £ 50000 for conducting different activities such as
investment, employee training, R&D cost, for changes implementation, resource for training and
development etc
Scope- Scope decide the future opportunities for both researchers as well as project managers .
This will help to researchers at a great extent to gain a knowledge about the different methods of
recruitment and selection along with the benefits and drawbacks. Also, beneficial for the
manager to hire or select the appropriate candidate by enhancing the HR practices it has wider
scope in future.
Quality- It requires execution of project activities as well as research with reliability,
measurability and excellence performance. It helps researcher to collect the valuable information
through the various methods like questionnaire. Also, a project manager take advantages of
proper qualitative data that are collected by investigator which helps in performing the project
task on time in a systematic manner.
Risk- Risk is an important factor that are occurs in every kind of activities or tasks. At a time of
conducting research, investigator suffering from lack of time and resources this will lead in delay
to completing the tasks on time . As well as the manager faces the risk of inappropriate data's and
information this results in unsystematic or inappropriate implementation of project activities.
Time- Time is considered as a important factor to prepare the time schedule of each activities of
project that helps in finishing all tasks in specified time frame. A researcher will require 3
months for appropriate data collection. Whereas, for completing the project activities as well as
implementing the HR practices a company's manager require 10 weeks

Communicate- Interaction between employees, manager as well as clients are needed to
complete their own tasks on time. There are several mediums of communication that are used by
the researchers to communicate with clients such as emails and telephones (Fletcher, 2017).
Although, a manager also needs to communicate with their team member for implementing the
changes in HR practices by using this channels to convey the messages and informations
regarding the project activities.
Resources- To completing the tasks on time, resources such as financial, technological and
human resources etc. plays a crucial role in facilitating better recruitment, selection and training
practices . These are required for researcher to complete the research activities as well as collect
accurate informations within the period of time. Although, it is useful for the company to
perform the project activities on time by using the latest techniques and talented employees.
P3 Gantt chart and breakdown structure
Work breakdown structure: It is a process that outlines the whole projects and break
down in smaller sections to manage all the activities in a proper manner. This structure is also
known as “deliverable oriented hierarchical”. The decomposition work should be divided into
sub sections which to be executed by project team. This will help researchers to determine the
actual time for start and finish the activities. Moreover, it helps manager to complete the project
activities effectively and efficiently.

Gantt chart: It is graphical representation of project schedule and it display the start and finish
dates of various factors including resources, tasks etc. Gantt chart is widely in use for project
management to plan a project and define the sequences and duration of activities that should be
required forcomplete a task in a specified time duration . This will help the investigator to carry
out tasks and activities in a prescribed manner. As well as helps manager by facilitating proper
investigation regarding the resource requirement for completing the research tasks on time.

TASK 2
P4 Research Methodology.
Researchers are liable to conduct a small scale research by using the various methods of data
collection for completing the project in an effective and systematic way. Information can be
gathered from the different sources that are described as follows:
Methods of data collection
Data collection is a process of collecting informations from the applicable sources to find
out the answer of research difficulty, hypothetical survey as well as measure the effect. It can be
divided in two categories that are as follows:
 Primary source of data collection:- Informations that are collected for the first time or
can say that first hand data's are used to meet the specific aim of the project. Researchers
gathered information through the interview, survey, observations as well as questionnaire
etc. are considered as a primary data collection method.
 Secondary source of data collection:- This is a that kind of data collection method
which has already been published in journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and
internet. Secondary data collection method is used to increase the validity as well as
reliability of research. This is the most effective tool to collect the data in which

information is collected by third party. Researchers studied those collected data's and
make their own research.
Methods of research
To collect the primary data a researcher use two methods for collecting the relevant, fresh
as well as useful informations. That can be described as:
 Qualitative methods:- This do not involve the numbers or quantity measurements and
closely associated with feelings, emotions, words etc. that elements are called non-
quantifiable. The aim of qualitative method is to ensure the depth understanding about the
research, it includes the open-ended questions in interview and questionnaire method.
 Quantitative methods:- This method includes the mathematical calculation that includes
correlation, regression, mean, mode, median etc. This is inexpensive to use and most
appropriate for shorter period of time and also it is easy to form the comparisons of all
findings .
Sample size
It is a act of choosing the number of observations in a statistical sampling that is to form
illation about a total population from a sample. Sample size is used to determine on the basis of
cost, time and suitability of data collection as well as ascertain the number of answerer that are
chosen for the gathering informations. Sample size of 20 respondents have taken to study their
opinion and interpret the data in an effective manner.
QUESTIONNAIRE
NAME:
AGE:
GENDER:
Q-1 Does diversity and equality have positive impact in improving employee
performance?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q-2 What are the diverse practices which are followed by ASDA?
 Cultural Diversity.

 Corporate Structure
 Empathetic Leadership
 All mention above
Q-3 Have diversity helped the staff to have proper working in creative and innovative way
to gain the knowledge?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q-4 Is diversity helps the company to have attainment goals and objectives effectively?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q-5 Does strategy of company is helping in retention of skilled employees in ASDA?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q-6 what advantage observed by you while working with diversified work force?
 Improvement in performance
 Employee retention
 High productivity
Q-7 Does diversified strategies help in gaining the competitive advantage?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q-8 Does equality and diversity bring efficiency and effectiveness in business operation?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q9 Do you have experience the diversity in the workplace of ASDA?
 Yes
 No

Q10 have you ever felt gender inequality in the working environment of company?
 Yes
 No
Q11 What is the challenging aspects you feel in working aspects in diverse business
environment.
 Ethical And Cultural Difference.
 Generation Gap.
 Gender Inequality
 Acceptance And Respect.
P5 Data Interpretation.
The data interpretation helps in properly analysis of the gathered information in more detail.
This is about having the detailed analysis which will helps out the researcher to to have the
development of suitable recommendation in having the appropriation of research. So in the
following question there will consistency of the proper analysis with inclusion of charts and table
which is being used in drawing the proper level of results.
Theme 1 Diversity And Equality Have Positive Impact.
Does diversity and equality have positive
impact in improving employee performance?
Frequency
Yes 11
No 5
Not sure 4
Total 20

Yes No Not sure
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Frequency
Data Interpretation.
From the above data it can be interpreted that the manager in this organization have
major consideration over bringing more of equality and diversity in the organization. This helps
in building up the positive relationship and impact which is very helpful in developing the
business in gaining level of competitive advantage in the market environment. Moreover. The
major impact is that the equality and diversity leads to have proper level of implementation of
the various programmes which is progressive in nature. The company will be able to properly
identify and overall developed the need of ASDA.
Theme 2 Empathetic Leadership followed by ASDA
What are the diverse practices which are
followed by ASDA?
Frequency
Cultural Diversity. 4
Corporate Structure 5
Empathetic Leadership 11
Total 20

Cultural Diversity. Corporate Structure Empathetic Leadership
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Frequency
Data Interpretation
From the above data it can be interpreted that the company ASDA have the major follow
ship of empathetic leadership which is tuning out to be more beneficial to company in gaining
more level of competitive advantage in marketing environment. The following leadership can be
considered as the one of the best leadership in which leader is able to have the better level of
establishment of networking to have proper level of understanding in terms of business interest
and perspectives. This helps the company to have providence of strengthen of employer and
employee relationship.
Theme 3 Diversity Enabled Staff In Creative Way To Gain Knowledge
Have diversity helped the staff to have proper
working in creative and innovative way to gain
the knowledge?
Frequency
Yes 13
No 4
Not sure 3
Total 20