Unilever's Business Project: Impact on India's Business Environment

Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments. This report analyzes Unilever's impact on India's business environment.

MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PROJECT

Executive Summary
In the report, the project planning has been done of Unilever Company. The project
planning, objectives and aim has been framed. Along with this, the project planning
management has been developed by estimating cost, time and allocating resources.
The survey and interview have been done from employees and managers of Unilever.
Along with this, the recommendation has been provided to overcome the challenges
and improve the business environment all aspects that is social, environmental and
economical.

Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................... 4
LO1 Establish project aims, objectives and timeframes based on the chosen theme
(M1)..................................................................................................................................4
P1 Project aims and objectives........................................................................................4
P2 Evaluation of the project management plan that provides thorough discussion
valuable elements of project management.......................................................................5
P3 Timeframe for the entire project management............................................................7
LO2: Conduct small-scale research, information gathering and data collection to
generate knowledge to support the project.................................................................(M2)
......................................................................................................................................... 8
P4 Research to meet project aims and objectives...........................................................8
1. Survey.......................................................................................................................... 8
2. Interview questions.................................................................................................... 11
LO3 Present the project and communicate appropriate recommendations based on
meaningful conclusions drawn from evidence findings and /or analysis (M3)................13
P5 Analysis of data...................................................................................................... 13
P6 Conclusion and Recommendations based on analyzed data.................................14
LO4 Reflect on the value gained from conducting the project and its usefulness to
support sustainable organizational performance (M4)...................................................15
P7 Reflective analysis....................................................................................................15
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 16
References.....................................................................................................................17
Appendices.................................................................................................................... 18
Appendix 1: Interview question......................................................................................18
Appendix 2: Interview Question..................................................................................... 19

Introduction
Business project is mainly a recognized as a project of a company to meet its desired
business aim and objectives. The business project of a company is linked with the core
business strategies to reach to the ultimate goals of the management of the particular
organization. In the present study, a project has been mentioned which will be grown up
by depending on the effects of business environments. As a parent company, Unilever
is chosen from the UK and the key impacts of the business environment of this
multinational company have been developed defining the same company from Indian
business context. Practically, the study will show the project management plan of the
above mentioned company along with its major effects on the business environments of
India. The entire data collection method and research tool will also be described in the
study through which data will be gathered. Based on survey and interview questions,
analysis section will also be presented. Finally, recommendations will be discussed
based on findings along with an entire reflection section.
The problem statement of the study is to focus on the issues which will be faced by
management of Unilever as impacts of the business in India.
LO1 Establish project aims, objectives and timeframes based on the chosen
theme (M1)
P1 Project aims and objectives
Aim
The aim of the study is to discuss the impact of the business environment of Unilever in
the UK on the business environment of India. Practically, the study wants to show the
effectiveness of the business environment on the entire country. Apparently, it tries to
define the major impacts of the organization on the different business environments
such as social, economic and financial.
Objectives
The objectives of the study are as follows:
● To discuss the impacts of the organization on the financial environment of
business of India
● To evaluate the influences of the company on the social business environment of
host country
● To define the core effects of the business environment of the company on the
economic growth of the host country
● To analyze the benefits and challenges of the project management to define the
impacts of business environment of Unilever
Prime Question
The main question of the study is as follows:
What are the impacts of Unilever of UK on the social, financial and economic business
environment of India?

P2 Evaluation of the project management plan that provides thorough discussion
valuable elements of project management
The following section has provided information regarding the project management plan
of the company to analyze the core impacts of business of Unilever on India’s business
environment.
Objectives Entire planning
Cost In order to develop a project, it is highly important to
measure its costs as it is completely related to its
budget structure. The approximate costs for
developing the project will be the basic concern of the
project manager. For gathering data from the
interview procedure, approximately £506 will be
accessed whereas survey process will take only £345
from the researcher. It can also be estimated that in
time of getting information from the new market
opportunities, the project team leader needs to invest
at least £458 in a proper manner. Apparently, in order
to gain data from various websites and analyze the
practical data, technical experts will be recruited. The
Recruitment process can be charged up to £800 and
£8000 can be the basic salary of the technologists
from the first day.
Scope Precisely, the project will help to know the present
business environments of the Unilever in UK that can
directly keep its influences on the business
environment of India. On the other hand, a project
develops the project planning, scheduling and
designing which will help to know the project
hypothesis (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). In this way,
the negative and positive impacts of business
environments can be separated in a proper manner
(Kerzner, 2018).
Time As described by Todorović et al. (2015), without
proper project timing, the accomplishment of project
tasks cannot be determined in an actual manner. For
the topic selection, 2 day will be needed and for
developing the aim and objectives, the researcher will
take 4 days. The project team leader of the company
will gather information regarding the activities of the
company through taking 15 days. Survey process will
be done by accessing 7 days and the interview
process will be done through 8 days respectively.
Data analysis will be scheduled taking 13 days. For

deriving the recommendations, the project team
leader will take 6 days and for summarizing thoughts,
3 days will be taken. Finally, the proofreading and the
final submission will take 3 days and 1 day in a
respective manner.
Quality As per the viewpoints of Walker and Lloyd-Walker
(2016), maintenance of project quality is highly
mandatory to meet the project success. In the context
of the present study, the project team leader needs to
maintain the project quality which will show the core
troubles in the project as well as the best decisions of
the management regarding the effects of the business
environment of Unilever on India.
Communication In order to conduct the entire project, the project
manager needs to make regular communication with
all the parties related to the project (Lock, 2017). The
team leader needs to communicate with both the
management of Unilever in the UK and India.
Interaction with the stakeholders needs to be
maintained in a proper manner. In time of gathering
data through interview and survey procedure, the
team leader needs to be interacted properly based on
which the business environmental effects will be
gained in a systematic manner (Serra and Kunc,
2015).
Risk The project team leader will also identify the risks
related to the entire project management plan (Van
Tulder, 2015). The risks related to finance,
manpower, data collection and analysis, skills of
workers, investments will also be identified by the
management in a thorough way. It will help to know
the effects on social, financial and economic
environment of UK business environment along with
fewer risks (Turner, 2016).
Resources The primary resources of a project are the financial,
technological and human resources (Etemad and
Dulude, 2018). Therefore, the project team leader
needs to be verified the requirements of the
resources for knowing the influences of business
environment on India (Wu et al. 2016). The attitudes
of management will also be defined in a proper
manner as it will also be considered as project

resource.
Table 1: Project management plan
P3 Timeframe for the entire project management
The above discussion states a brief timeframe which will be conducted by the project
team leader to complete the entire study. In the context of topic selection, 2 day will be
needed and for mentioning the aim and objectives, the researcher will take 4 days. In
order to complete the survey and interview procedures, the researcher will take 7 and 8
days in a respective manner. This step will be considered as the data collection in the
entire time frame. On the other hand, data analysis will be done for which 13 days will
also be taken by the researcher. The timeframe will also present the summarization of
thoughts which will take 3 days from the project team leader and also 6 days will be
needed for deriving recommendations. After that, the proofreading and final submission
will be held within 3 days and 1 day in a systematic manner. However, the entire
research will be conducted in the weekdays only, Saturdays and Sundays will be
excluded from the research work.
Figure 1: Timeframe of the project

LO2: Conduct small-scale research, information gathering and data collection to
generate knowledge to support the project (M2)
P4 Research to meet project aims and objectives
In order to meet the project’s aims and objectives, primary research method including
both survey and interview will be considered. Interview from 1 HR Manager and 1
Marketing Manager will be taken. Further, survey from 25 employees of Unilever
Company will be taken. These employees will possess the designation as following 8
employees in Production department, 8 employees from HR department and 9
employees from Marketing Department.
1. Survey
a. Do you agree that functions of your company impacts on financial
environment of business in India?
Categories No. of
participants
Total no. of
participants
Percentage
Yes 18 25 72
No 7 25 28
Table 2: Company impacts on financial environment of business in India
Figure 1: Company impacts on financial environment of business in India
Findings

From the above figure, it has been found that over 72% of the employees agree that
company impacts the financial environment of business in host country that is India. On
the other hand, 28% avoid to get agreed that functions of Unilever impacts the financial
environment of business in India.
b. Do you think that the company Unilever influenced the social business
environment of India?
Categories No. of
participants
Total no. of
participants
Percentage
Yes 20 25 80
No 5 25 20
Table 2: Unilever influences social business environment of India
Figure 2: Unilever influences social business environment of India
Findings
With the above view of figure, it can be seen that 80% of the participants agrees that
their company impacts the social business environment of India. On the other side, 20%
disagreed with the statement that their company, Unilever influences the social
business environment of India.
c. Do you agree that business environment affects the economic growth of
India?
Categories No. of
participants
Total no. of
participants
Percentage
Yes 19 25 76
No 6 25 24
Table 3: Business environment affects the economic growth

Figure 3: Business environment affects the economic growth
Findings
Approximately 76% of the employees participated in survey agreed that business
environment of Unilever affects the economic growth of India. On the other sides, it can
also be viewed that 24% of employees voids to get agree with the statement.
d. According to you, what are the aspects that create challenges in
developing project management in India?
Categories No. of
participants
Total no. of
participants
Percentage
Social 15 25 60
Financial 2 25 8
Environmental 3 25 12
Economical 5 25 20
Table 4: Aspects creating challenges in development of project management

Figure 4: Aspects creating challenges in development of project management
Findings
With reference to above figure, it can be seen that most of the employees that is 60%,
agrees that social factors create more challenges in development of project
management in the host destination. Further, some of the participants like 12% and
20% respectively; also stated that environmental and economical condition become
hurdle in developing project management.
2. Interview questions
In order to gather the information from the two managers of Unilever from India related
to the impacts of business environments on India, little information will be gathered. The
predictions on the answers of the managers have been developed in the following
section:
How do you maintain a satisfactory business environment in India in context of
social, economic and financial?
Both the managers of the organization can answer positively for the core impacts of the
business environment of Unilever on Indian business environments. The first manager
from marketing department has defined the economic sides of the Unilever through
which the Indian business can be developed. This manager has also mentioned that the
development of the sales growth in UK from the Unilever can directly keep its impacts
on the capital growth of the India. The manager has also provided information regarding
the economic development of the company in a proper manner. The manager from HR
department has also been said regarding the recruitment process which can be grown
up with the high investments on the company in a proper manner. (Refer to Appendix
1)
What are the challenges your company face while running the business in India?
The manager from HR department has mentioned the currency related problems which
have been met by them in a proper manner. As the currency of both the countries is

different it can create major problems in their business growth in India. The manager
from marketing department has also told regarding the major challenges such as
financial challenges. The marketing costs of the two countries are completely different
which can hinder the performance of the business of Unilever in different country.
(Refer to Appendix 2)