Aries Bakehouse Project: Planning for Sugar-Free Biscuit Introduction

This project plan outlines the introduction of sugar-free biscuits by Aries Bakehouse in the UK, addressing key aspects such as project management, market research, and talent management. The plan includes aims and objectives, a detailed project management plan, a work breakdown structure with a Gantt chart, and an analysis of primary and secondary data related to talent management within the organization. Primary data is gathered through questionnaires, while secondary data involves a literature review. The report also provides recommendations and reflections on the project, ultimately aiming to increase business sales by promoting health-conscious products in the UK market. Desklib provides access to similar project plans and solved assignments for students.

PROJECT PLANNING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
PROJECT PLANNING..............................................................................................................1
1. Aim and objectives..................................................................................................................1
2. Project management plan........................................................................................................1
3. Work break down structure and Gantt Chart..........................................................................3
4. Concept of Primary data and questionnaire over the talent management...............................3
5. Importance of secondary data and literature review over talent management........................4
6. Data Analysis..........................................................................................................................6
7. Recommendations.................................................................................................................10
8. Reflection..............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Project planning is a disciplined way to complete the project within pre determined time
duration generally with the help of certain stages as well as allotted resources (Browning, 2019).
This report will discuss the project of introduction of sugar free biscuits offered by the Aries
Bakehouse Bakery which is situated in UK. Apart from this, the study will also highlight the
concept of talent management with the help of primary as well as secondary sources along with
certain recommendations to develop further within the chosen company.
TASK 1
PROJECT PLANNING
1. Aim and objectives
Aim
The aim behind conducting current project planning is to introduce sugar free biscuits
by Aries Bakehouse Bakery within the UK.
Objectives
 To develop awareness about health consciousness among various people living in UK.
 To increase the sales of the business by 15% annually.
2. Project management plan
Project management plan refers to the formal document that illustrates the ways through
which the whole project going to be completed with success along with fulfilment of all the
necessary aspects of the plan (Alhazmi and Huang, 2018). It consists of various elements which
are going to be discussed below:
 Scope: In context of project management, it has been identified that the scope will
include certain features as well as functions of the offered goods and services along with
the scope of work that needs to be completed for the project. It consists of information
that are essential to start the project including various features in order to meet
requirements of stakeholders. In context of Aries Bakehouse Bakery, it has been
identified that in order to introduce sugar free biscuits, the scope of the project is wide in
the market space of UK as the people are continuously increasing the demand for low
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calorie snacks along with cutting cost advantages of utilizing sugar substitutes is perhaps
considered as one of the most foremost reason behind the growth of the sugar free items
in the market of UK (Collings, Mellahi and Cascio, 2017). The team will be managed
effectively in order to complete the task in pre determined time frame. Apart from this,
the quality of the cookies also has been highly considered at the time of providing
services to the consumers of UK.
 Time: The project will be completed within the 2 months of time duration with the
involvement of certain necessary steps in order to appropriately introduce the sugar free
biscuits in the market place of UK.
 Importance: The introduction of sugar free biscuits are greatly significant for the
betterment of the health of the people living within the UK as recently people are facing
various obesity issues with the consumption of sugar contents and requires immediate
actions over the intake.
 Risk: Hazards that has been involved within this project is changing taste and
preferences of the consumers on constant basis and the clients might not like the taste of
the biscuits may harm the project. Another aspect is that the team members will unable to
perform better to finish the project in successful manner.
 Budget: In order to finish the project of introduction of sugar free biscuits, the overall
estimated budget of £280 will be involved to finish the assignment successfully.
 Resources: To complete the project there are certain resources that will be highly
required to complete the task such as workforce, wages, machinery, raw material,
infrastructure and miscellaneous.
 Communication: Project manager will extremely influence over the communication part
as the preparation of sugar free biscuits requires sequence of stages which has been
performed by diversified people and hence requires clear communication among all the
team members.
 Quality: With the involvement of appropriate tools and techniques such as key
performance indicator, the performance of the team members will be evaluated in order
to finish the project within stipulated time frame along with maintenance of the effective
quality of the finished good.
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3. Work break down structure and Gantt Chart
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Initiation 12 days Tue 11/16/21 Wed 12/1/21
Marketing research 4 days Tue 11/16/21 Fri 11/19/21
Deciding location 6 days Mon 11/22/21 Mon 11/29/21 2
Obtain license 2 days Tue 11/30/21 Wed 12/1/21 3
Planning 18 days Tue 11/16/21 Thu 12/9/21
Recruitment 5 days Thu 12/2/21 Wed 12/8/21 4
Risk planning 3 days Thu 12/9/21 Mon 12/13/21 6
Inventory management 2 days Tue 12/14/21 Wed 12/15/21 6,7
Infrastructure
management 2 days Thu 12/16/21 Fri 12/17/21 8
Resources planning 5 days Mon 12/20/21 Fri 12/24/21 9
Suppliers selection 1 day Mon 12/27/21 Mon 12/27/21 10
Executing 25 days Tue 11/16/21 Mon 12/20/21
Building the design 15 days Tue 12/28/21 Mon 1/17/22 11
Installing the technology 4 days Tue 11/16/21 Fri 11/19/21
Promotion techniques 7 days Mon 11/22/21 Tue 11/30/21 14
Getting certification 3 days Wed 12/1/21 Fri 12/3/21 15
Monitoring 5 days Tue 11/16/21 Mon 11/22/21
Comparing the
performance 5 days Mon 12/6/21 Fri 12/10/21 16
Closure 20 days Tue 11/16/21 Mon 12/13/21
Handover deliverables 8 days Mon 11/22/21 Wed 12/1/21 14
Documentation 1 day Wed 12/1/21 Wed 12/1/21 15
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Work breakdown structure:
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PROJECT
PLANNING
INITIATIO
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MONITORIN
G CLOSURE
EXECUTIO
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PLANNING
Marketing
research
Deciding
location Obtain
license
Recruitment Risk
planning Inventory
management
Infrastructure
management
Resources
planning
Building the
design Installing
the technology
Promotion
techniques
Getting
certification
Comparing the
performance
Handover
deliverables
Documentatio
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4. Concept of Primary data and questionnaire over the talent management
Primary data is the kind of original data that has been collected specifically for the
purpose of conducting any research over the specified topic in order to illustrate the exact
outcome Without any biases with practical functions. This kind of data has been collected and
never been published in previous manner. This data is extremely reliable, objective as well as
authentic in nature (El Masri and Suliman, 2019). It involves the procedure of collecting the data
directly rather than collecting the data from previous researches. It has been considered as 'to the
point research' and helps the scholar to analyse the results in a better way. Generally, to collect
the data through the medium of primary sources, a survey has been conducted among the
employees of the Aries Bakehouse Bakery through the mode of questionnaire.
This specific type of data is highly authentic in nature as it completely dependent upon
the actuality of the research. It will automatically provide accurate results as it consists of
answers that has been collected by varied people which appropriately avoid any kind of biases.
Another significance is that it is extremely valid in context that the data depend upon the efforts
put by the researcher which makes the data most trustworthy. In order to illustrate the concept of
primary data, a questionnaire over the talent management has been presented below:
1. Do you understand the concept of talent management?
 Yes
 No
2. How does your organization identify talented people?
 By outcomes
 By competencies
 By potentiality
3. How your company hires talented people?
 By organizing competitions
 By social media recruitment
 By in-house recruitment
 By employee referral program
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4. Through what mode your company reward talented employees?
 Look after staff's well-being
 By providing appropriate support and recognition time to time
 Provide them proper training sessions
 All of the above
5. Is there any other way you would like to recommend enhancing encouragement of
talented people within your organization?
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5. Importance of secondary data and literature review over talent management
Secondary data is a kind of information that has been collected through another
researchers and the information has been utilized in order to complete the project by referring
gathered data with a purpose to finish the task in most successful manner. It does not allow
mathematical calculations such as determining the arithmetic mean and correlation among the
gathered information, etc. This type of collection source are greatly significant in order to ease
down the access of the information, lower down the cost of the project, time saving in every
aspect, allows the scholar to produce new insight from previous analysis, allows everybody to
collect the data and many more. In order to discuss and describe the secondary data mode of
collection, literature review over the talent management has been presented below:
As per the views of Thunnissen and Gallardo-Gallardo, (2017) it has been identified that
talent management is refers to attracting, selecting as well as retaining the employees which
consists of certain combinations of HR procedures all across the employee life cycle. It
embraces work space planning, engagement of employees development, recruitment, succession,
on-boarding, etc. It s major aim is to improve business performances with the help of practices
that makes the employees highly productive in nature.
On a contrary note, it has been identified by the Krishnan and Scullion, (2017) that
companies need to recognize the various technological advances in order to address the entire
talent management challenges. Getting support from each and every department is challenging
task for the organization. It demands business processes to have completely involved into
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business procedures under which the firm have the authority to break down company challenges
into appropriate ways to finish the task.
Mitosis, Lamnisos and Talias, (2021) states that talent management within an
organization help in ascertaining the correct candidate to deploy at the right position. It enables
the management to retain their top talented people and better hire the employees with
appropriate hiring assessments. With the help of effective talent management practices, the
company is able to understand their employees in most significant manner and shape their
future. It enables the managers to promote appropriate communication all across the company
with inclusion of diversified disciplines.
On the other hand, Abazeed, (2018) contradicts that the implementation of talent
management program could be expensive in context of time, financial costs as well as resources
that are incurred. It also consists of lack of support from line managers that can impede the level
of commitment from employees. A core disadvantage of talent management is that it can able to
contribute into raising the conflicts among the human resource people and management by not
reaching at proper agreements and concords.
In context of talent management factors, the Khoreva, Vaiman and Van Zalk, (2017)
describes that talent management practices will be greatly affected by the age, seniority and
levels of education. It has been evaluated that the older the employee works within the firm, the
more they want to stay with the establishment. In terms of age, the young people are more prone
to leave the current job role rather than the people who achieved at the significant age. Apart
from this, the employees greatly considers the salary aspects as well as other benefits such as the
desire of higher education by the companies requires spending huge amount over the wages as
well. Working environment also affects the employees in extreme manner such as optimistic
behaviour of employees as well as other management people do attract lots of talented
candidates towards the firm. Apart from this, the effective training and development sessions
also beneficial for the betterment of the organization as they retain their employees in most
significant manner. Offering of higher amount of salaries is not the only important aspect that
has been considered by the candidates. But other kinds of motivational actions such as career
development also helps the employees to being motivated and interested to work within the
establishments.
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6. Data Analysis
Theme 1: Majority number of employees do agrees that they understand the concept of talent
management.
Do you understand the concept of talent
management?
Outcome
Yes 27
No 3
Total 30
Interpretation: From the above represented pictorial diagram, it has been identified that
majority number of employees i.e. 90% who are working within the Aries bakehouse Bakery do
understand the meaning and concept of talent management. However, there are few members
such as 10% who are still unaware about the conception and thoughts of talent management.
Theme 2: Maximum number of employees of the bakery do share their views with the concept
that the company identifies the talented people with the help of identifying the potentiality
among the candidate in order to complete their tasks.
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How does your organization identify talented
people?
Outcome
By outcome 5
By potentiality 18
By competencies 7
Total 30
Interpretation: From the above pie chart, it has been interpreted that maximum number of
employees i.e. 60% states that the management within their organization has identified talented
people as per their potentiality while 23% of employees share their vote in favour of
competencies. Apart from this, 17% of employees or candidates share their views that their firm
identify the talent within them as per their results that have been generated with the help of the
tasks that has been performed by them.
Theme 3: Major number of candidates within the workplace do agrees that the management of
the company hires talented people with the help of social media recruitment as well as employee
referral program.
How your company hires talented people? Outcome
By organizing competitions 7
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17%
60%
23%
Identification of talent management within the Aries
Bakehouse Bakery
By outcome
By potentiality
By competencies

By social media recruitment 11
By in-house recruitment 4
By employee referral program 8
Total 30
Interpretation: From the above picture, it has been identified that 37% of employees states that
with the help of social media recruitment, company hires talented people within their
organization. Apart from this 27% which is the second highest share their vote for employee
referral program. 23% voted for organizational competitions as well as only 13% agrees for the
option of in house recruitment.
Theme 4: With the help of all the actions such as looking after staff members, providing them
appropriate support, recognizing them time by time, along with providing them appropriate
training sessions will enables them to reward their employees within the organization for the
tasks they have performed.
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23%
37%
13%
27%
The way company hires talented people
By organizing competitions
By social media recruitment
By in-house recruitment
By employee referral
program