Project Management Analysis: Unilever's Equity and Diversity Plan

This project report provides a comprehensive analysis of Unilever's project management approach to address challenges related to equity and diversity in the workplace. The report begins with an abstract outlining the project's focus on identifying and solving issues faced by businesses in implementing equality and diversity. It then delves into the project's aims and objectives, including the development of a project management plan covering cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk, and resources. The report details the use of primary and secondary research methods, including surveys, and quantitative analysis. It presents a work breakdown structure and a Gantt chart to provide timeframes and stages for completion, evaluating the accuracy and reliability of the research methods. The project also includes recommendations for improvement, evaluating the selection of appropriate tools and techniques. The report concludes with a critical evaluation of the project management process and methods applied, highlighting the value of the investigation in meeting stated objectives and supporting learning and performance. The report also explores the challenges of aligning diversity practices with organizational goals, overcoming biases, and addressing internal resistance, offering a detailed case study of Unilever's efforts to create a more equitable and diverse workplace.

MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT
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ABSTRACT
This project provides clear description on the challenges as well as issues faced by buisneses while implementing equality and
diversity at workplace. Unilever has been taken as the main company in the following project where the top managemnet team of the
copamny has conducted mini research for finding out soliutions for the problems which is being faced by them in negative manner. In
this project, survey method has been used by the researcher for gathering primary information from the respondents. Also,
quantitatuve method has been used for analyisng the overall information in appropriate manner.
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Contents
ABSTRACT.........................................................................................................................................2
Contents................................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
P1: Devise project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario....................................................4
P2: Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and resources. 4
M1: Produce a comprehensive project management plan, milestone schedule and project schedule for monitoring and completing
the aims and objectives of the project..........................................................................................5
P3: Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart to provide timeframes and stages for completion. 5
P4: Carry out small-scale research applying primary and secondary methods appropriate for meeting project aims and objectives.
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M2: Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of primary and secondary methods applied............11
D1: Critically evaluate the project management process and methods applied for gathering information and data collection. 11
TASK 3...............................................................................................................................................11
P5 Research and data using appropriate tools and techniques...................................................11
P6 Recommendations................................................................................................................11
M3 Evaluate the selection of appropriate tools and techniques for accuracy and authenticity to support and justify recommendations.
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TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P7 Value of undertaking the investigation in order to meet stated objectives and own learning and performance 12
M4 Value of the project management process and use of quality research to meet stated objectives and support own learning and
performance...............................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................12
REFRENCES.....................................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Project management is the activity of systematic run business project activity by using the tools of management. It is important
part of management price through which organization able to complete their task with minimum use of resource at low cost. In this
report Unilever has been take to identify the importance of project management. The report is resources in the is of project
implementing regarding the issue and challenges generated due to equity and diversify with the organization. This include
the ,earning procedure of project management and use of chart and research methodology to collect regarding project , which help in
analysing the affect on employer of the project activities and event organization enhance the knowledge by Equal opportunities and
diversity management Plan.
TASK1
P1: Devise project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario.
Project: It define as combination of business planed activities which is run in business for specific time period to fulfil special
target of the organization. It is financial activity .This report is prepared for analysing the impact and challenges of equity and
diversity within an organization.
Background of organisation: Unilever is the British organization, which is famous for their baby, skin care and health and
beauty product and recently to increase target market are they providing financial service to their customers. It earns more than 30
billion profit per annum and its target market is cross almost all the relevant countries of America, Asia, Europe, Africa, hence, it is
famous in Indian, Dubai, East Asia, and south American countries. In Unilever more than 15000 employers given their service to the
organization through which the company successfully proved their product and service to customers.
This report is prepared the basis of identifying the importance of project management by overcomes the problems faces by the
organization related with the issue of equitant diversity in workplace. Equity is define as fare as well as respected business practice
with each people work in the organization. It definer that every business action can control the unbiased business practices if manager
treated everyone in equal manner. On the other side, diversity means, respecting and valuating culture, religion and uniqueness of
every employers, regarding with, their cast, country, gender, age, colouretching organization there are people who belong from
different cute thus it is essential for manager to build policies which respect every culture of the organization. There will be many
issue regarding equity and diversity arise within he Unilever organization, which define below
 Aligning of diversity business practice with organization goals
 Moving designing for implementation
 Overcoming biased
 Training management
 Internal resistance
 Linkage and communication issue
 Generation gap
 Ethical and culture difference
 Accommodation of belief
All these are issue and challenges are face by organization, to overcome all the issue, manager made project management plan through
which they can able to reduce the issue the main of this project is define below
 Built a project through which Unilever can provide equal opportunities to each employer of the organization.
 Management of diversity culture in organization.
 Build strong and positive atmosphere in the organization.
 Reducing the generate gape and made similar though of the employers.
 Utilization of resource in effective way.
 Build strong relation between employers
 Increasing productivity of the company
 Reducing employee turnover rate.
 Attain goal of business.
All these are the main objective for which the project plan has been established. Project management is the process of managing all
the project activities by applying, planning, organizing, directing and controlling tools of project management.
Research aim and objectives for present research are specified as below:
Research aim:
“To investigate about several challenges faced by the buisnesses while implementing equality and diversity at workplace.” A
case study on Unilever.
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Research Objectives:
 To understand the concept of equality and diversity
 To determine main challenges develops during incorporation of equality and diversity at workplace.
 To find out several ways through which these influence of these challenges can be reduced.
P2: Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and resources.
Project management plan: It is prepared to fulfilled the expectation of stockholder of the organization by preplanning for project .
Following are the steps of project management planning
Initiating process: This is the stage at which organization identifying presence of new project or the passing of the ongoing
project to the next phase. This phase of the plan is related with the process.
Planning process: It is the most essential phase of the project management, in this phase those activities are plan which are not
included in their plan. There are 2 stages one is related with the planning of cost and another is related with the facilities planning
process.
Cost planning: Unilever is make project on which is related with the equal opportunities and diversity management plan. For
this they prepared cost plan which desire the activities in which cost are incurred. For implementing plan on equity and diversity, the
need finance to activities, related with, work life balance, for this they invest in insurance schemes, they promote heath habits, .
They also incurred their monetary sources on training of the employers, are them regarding benefits of training program, for this they
decide time period of the training which is 30 to 60 days. They focus on recruitment, and career planning for this they recruiter more
women’s in the organization it will help in reducing the gender inequality. They see the tie period. The plan for recruitment and hiring
process. They also work f connation plan in order to reduce the harassment issue at work They focus on event and organising activity
which is aim to build strong relation and also create team through which bonding and understanding becomes strong of the
organization workforce. Facilitating planning: In this planning phase various resources are allocated on the basis of planning Policies
of the organization. They allocated resource of training, facilitate foreign serves, provides training regarding gender inequality.
Started and organizing event which focus n development of and talk about gender equity and used of diversity. They facilities resource
of organizing event and trips which help in fresh min of workforce and also useful in build strong relation with the organization. They
engage shareholder program and involve them in decision making process and also ware them regarding employees of the
organization. Implementation practice stage: At this stage Unilever formulate policies are work on for their action, the project actives
is related on the work ad practices is incurred in the phase. Their planning is define the scope of the project Which is define that if
they achieve the project successfully then rate of issue and conflict is reduce and the products level of the organization increase also it
effect on the products level as workers give their 100 % in business production process, selling and distribution process also. This
management plan help in increasing the goodwill among market of the Unilever. This useful in reduce the turnover of employees and
help in making effective health natural work environment. This plan increase the living standard and reduce chance of health issue as
they focus on implementing health insurance schemes and stage relaxation program.
Quality planning: They work on improving quality by implementing and organising effect plan hitch motivate employers to
work hard towards achievement of goal of business organization.
Risk analysis: Before practice on implementation plan in this procure , the manger with the use of environment technique
analysis the risk engaged during implementing of the project, however there are only so event and training program and equity issue
related program are strategies and implementing to reduce the issue of equity and diversity still the risk of cost, loss incurred. Event
get negate impact on employers manually are the chance of risk which is measure by the management of Unilever.
Implementation of the project: This stage is the final at which the project work THE Employers AND Their Member
engaged IN TEIR. This project is related with the internal organization plan thus in this plan the change of concept is reduce and risk
is also low.
Feedback : At this stage feedback from employers is taken on the basis of their experience as it is depend on they feel for the project
plan o effect the conflict ate is decreases regarding managing equity and diversity.
M1: Produce a comprehensive project management plan, milestone schedule and project schedule for monitoring and completing the
aims and objectives of the project.
Project management is the process though which management department manage all there project activity in or to get there aim
with the given time period. Unilever organization builds plan on equal opportunities and diversity on work plan. In those report for
building project plan, work break down structure and Gantt chart a has been used which hl in providing guiding of the organization as
well as they are used in planning the cost, scope, time and communication strategies of the organization apply within the project
implementation process.
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P3: Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart to provide timeframes and stages for completion.
Work breakdown structure: It is deliverable oriented grouping of project activities which organized and define the total scope
of the project. The work required to make sense of product. The procedure of dividing the overall project into sub element clear work
breakdown structure. The breaking down of work into hierarchy of activities and business takes is known as decomposition. The
decomposition of deliverables and associated work is fed into the process for creating the forecast of time and cost to make them.
WBS helps in effective planning and executing of business activity.
It useful in providing guideline regarding the project task. It help in developing and controlling business activity and also useful
in assonating business responsibilities and managing work and manager use this to completed their work according to the budge time
period.
The main purpose of this structure is to assure all the required work elements are including in the work output procedure.
OTO recover come possibility of deviation duplication and redundancy of task.
 To finish convention heretical structure for the accumulated of reasons estimate.
 To gain greater overall visibility as well as depth of introduction into makeup of the work.
 TO provide a lower level break out of smaller task that are easy to identify staff, schedule ad estimate it.
WBS helps in achieving of project object in give tm period. In this report, mange wants to prepare, project of managing equity and
diversity. Their project name is equal opportunities and diversity plan, for this they follow the stapes. The implement input structure
on which they decades the scope of project managements plan, factors affect the planned process n organising assets.
ACTION ACTIVITIES OF WBS
ACTION Nº 1
ACTION BREAK DOWN GENDER AND DIVERSITY DATA IN ALL
INDICATORS CURRENTLY IN USE: TRAINING,
SELECTION, ETC. AND ADD NEW INDICATORS THAT
ARE SENSITIVE TO GENDER AND DIVERSITY.
NEED DETECTED NEED FOR MORE INDICATORS OF GENDER AND
DIVERSITY
OBJETIIVE/S INCORPORATE THE TRANSVERSELY OF THE GENDER
PERSPECTIVE AND DIVERSITY (1)
TASKS TO CARRY OUT DEFINE A LIST OF INDICATORS TO MEASURE ONCE A
YEAR AND SEE THE EVOLUTION.
PEOPLE ADDRESSED PEOPLE ADDRESSED
RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION HUMAN RESOURCES UNIT / IBEC COMMISSION FOR
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
TIMING IMPLEMENTATION
INDICATORS THOSE INDICATED IN EACH ACTION OF THE PLAN,
PLUS THOSE NEW INDICATORS THAT WE ADD.
ACTIÓN Nº 2
ACTION CYCLE OF TALKS ON EQUALITY AND INTER-
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
NEED DETECTED IN THE SURVEY, 57% ARE IN FAVORS OF GREATER
AWARENESS OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FROM A
PERSPECTIVE OF GENDER AND DIVERSITY. MANAR,
CALLE DE CONCEPCIÓN ARENAL, 93, 08027
BARCELONA OBJECTIVE/S INCREASE THE VISIBILITY
OF
OBJECTIVE/S INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF FEMALE RESEARCHERS
(3) IMPROVE COMMUNICATION AND VISIBILITY OF THE
GENDER AND DIVERSITY ASPECTS BY ENCOURAGING
TRAINING AND SENSITIZATION IN THESE MATTERS IN
THE FIELD OF RESEARCH (4) PROMOTE AN INCLUSIVE
CULTURE WHERE PEOPLE CONNECT WITH EACH
OTHER AND PROMOTE COLLABORATION, FLEXIBILITY
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AND PARTICIPATION (5).
TASKS TO CARRY NETWORKING SESSION WHERE WOMEN'S
EXPERIENCES ARE SHARED, AS A ROLE MODEL FOR
YOUNG RESEARCHERS IN FEBRUARY OF EACH YEAR,
ORGANIZE AN ACTIVITY / COURSE COINCIDING WITH
WOMEN AND SCIENCE WEEK
PEOPLE ADDRESSED ALL UNILEVER STAFF
RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTATION HUMAN RESOURCES UNIT / IBEC
COMMISSION FOR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
TIMING IMPLEMENTATION T1 2020 T1 2021
T1 2018; T1 2019 NUMBER OF PEOPLE ATTENDING TRAINING
SATISFACTION WITH TALKS HELD.
ACTION Nº ACTION Nº
ACTION SPECIFIC TRAINING IN MATTERS OF EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT, FOR BOTH THE
COMMISSION OF EQUALITY, AND THE COMMISSION
FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT O F
HARASSMENT
NEED DETECTED THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE EQUALITY COMMISSION
NEED TO BE TRAINED IN GENDER ASPECTS, DIVERSITY
AND TREATMENT OF HARASSMENT.
OBJETIIVE/S S IMPROVE COMMUNICATION AND VISIBILITY OF
GENDER AND DIVERSITY ASPECTS BY ENCOURAGING
TRAINING AND SENSITIZATION OF THESE MATTERS IN
THE FIELD OF RESEARCH (4)
TASKS TO CARRY OUT SPECIFIC TRAINING IN AGENT OF EQUAL
OPPORTUNITIES. SPECIFIC TRAINING IN EQUALITY
AND DIVERSITY.
PEOPLE ADDRESSED GENERIC TRAINING FOR ALL STAFF AND MANDATORY
FOR MEMBERS OF THE EQUALITY COMMISSION AND
THE COPTCA
RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION HUMAN RESOURCES UNIT //UNILEVER COMMISSION
FOR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
TIMING IMPLEMENTATION TIME 2020 TO 2022
INDICATORS SATISFACTION WITH COURSE FOR AGENT FOR
EQUALITY SATISFACTION OF THE GENERIC COURSE
FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMISSION AND GENDER
AND DIVERSITY COMMISSION
Integration: This chart has been shown the project managements plan and activities they which Unilever will be able to
achieve their object and reduce the issue generating due to diversity and equity problem.
Gantt chart: I is type of are chart, which is used in representing project activities by using schedule of business activities. At
the present time the chart activities depend on the structure of business activities and relationship with the factors affect the business
activity. It is used to identify the graphics presentation of business schedule activities which is easily to understand for business
mangers.
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It helpful in attain the goals and reducing cost by providing guideline to the project management It is effect tool of
management through which organization can easily identify the interpret business activities. In this report Gantt chart is required for
the Unilever for this they use it .Gantt chart help them to finding effected business guideline.
P4: Carry out small-scale research applying primary and secondary methods appropriate for meeting project aims and objectives.
The main purpose of this to make a project through which Unilever will be able to overcome there problem related to equity
and diversity. Every project report is made up with the data collected from source of research. Primary and secondary data are
collected with these of various types of tools which is known as quantitative and qualitative tools of the research.
Quantitative research: In this research data are collected which is defining in numerical term. Qualitative data are collected by
observation, interview and survey. For this report the data is collected by questionnaire and observation and taken interview from
employers regarding their experience the organization.
The question is based, in the tools of likert scale and more than 50 of employers survey has been taken foe this purpose.
Survey question Strongly agree Agree neural Disagree Strongly
disagree
This program will
help in managing
strong relation
among employee
20 15 5 5 5
The gender equity , 25 10 5 5 5
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women
empowerment
programme help in
changing perception
of employee
towards women
working
The flexibility given
to old age employee
is relevant
15 20 5 5 5
The programme
help in increasing
productivity
25 10 5 5 5
Event and trip help
in building strong
connection among
employers.
20 15 5 5 5
The program use in
effect of changing
standard of living
25 10 5 5 5
Graph
1. This program will help in managing strong relation among employees
Interpretation:
As per according to the above mentioned graph it has been evaluated that programme of gender equity , women empowerment
will effectively aid in ensuring as well a maintaining strong relationship among employees as it has been evaluated that women
empowerment programme help in offering more job opportunities to women. Along with this, according to the evaluation of graph it
has been determined that 20 out of 50 respondents are strongly agree and said that this programme will effectively help in maintaining
string form of relationship as if women's are provided with equal form of opportunities then it automatically increases sense of job
satisfaction among the. While on the other hand, according to graph evaluation 15 out of 50 respondents are agree and said that with
the significant assistant of this programme organisation can maximise roles and responsibilities of women workers within entity
workplace premises that automatically lead towards enhancing their pay scale. It significantly increases opportunities for organisation
to manage strong relation among employees. By evaluating this has been identified that 5 out of 50 respondents are neutral, other 5 are
disagree and remaining 5 out of respondents strongly disagree with this fact. As they did not posses much knowledge related to
advantages and benefits of this programme for organisation.
2. The gender equity , women empowerment programme help in changing perception of employee towards women working
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10
15
20
25
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Interpretation:
As per the evaluation of above given graph it has been demonstrated that, women empowerment play key essential role and is
one of the most important aspect form an organisation as well as society. As it significantly lead entity to make significant increase in
quantity as well as quality of human resource of entity. By evaluating graph this has been evaluated that 25 out of 50 respondents said
that the gender quality programme of women empowerment aid in making significant change in the of workers towards women
working. As if entity provide equal pay scale and equal job opportunities then it makes changes in other gender thinking towards
women positioning. On the other hand 10 out of 50 respondents are agree with the fact that with the assistance of this programme
changes in the thinking of other employees towards women working can be significantly changed. Along with this, 5 out of 50
respondents are neutral, while other 5 out of 50 are disagree and remaining 5 are strongly disagree as they did not have effective
knowledge and proper understanding of the advantages and benefit of this programme for both entity and women workers within it.
3. The flexibility given to old age employee is relevant
Interpretation:
According to the above evaluation of graph it has been identified that by providing benefits to older employees in
organisational workplace structure can offer various form of benefit to entity as it has been determined that they are steady as well as
reliable source of skilled labour. By determining above graph it has been determined that 15 out of 50 respondents strongly agree with
this fact that flexibility given to old age employee is relevant as in this company can use their experience to provide training top other
employees. On the other hand, 20 out of 50 respondents agree with the same statement as they believe that by offering flexibility to
old age employees entity can retain their experienced candidates for long period of time. While other 5 respondents out of 50 are
neutral and other 5 out of 50 are disagree with proving flexibility to old employees. Lastly, this graph states that remaining 5
respondents strongly disagree as they believe that all employees weather old of new must be treated on equal basis irrespective of their
experience in entity.
4. The programme help in increasing productivity
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Strongly agree
Agree
neural
Disagree
Strongly disagree
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
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Strongly agree
Agree
neural
Disagree
Strongly disagree
0
5
10
15
20
25
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Interpretation:
The programme of gender equity , women empowerment have significant tendency to increase overall productivity level and
growth index rate of company in respective industrial sector. In addition to this, it has been determined that by offering equal
opportunities entity can also enhance their goodwill in marketplace. According to graph it has been signified that 25 out of 50
respondents strongly agree with the fact that women empowerment and gender equity programme can increase overall productivity
and if men and women have equal rights and roles then they perform their objectives with more efficiency. Along with this, this graph
evaluated that 10 out of 50 respondents agree with the said fact. While on the other hand other 5 out of 50 respondents are neutral,
remaining 5 out of 50 are disagree and last 5 out of 50 are strongly disagree as they did not posses effective and adequate knowledge
about this programme and benefits associated with it.
5. Event and trip help in building strong connection among employers.
Interpretation:
According to the above mentioned graph, it has been evaluated that trip and event have significant capabilities to built strong
and effective connection among employees as this will significantly increase communication among workers through which they will
know each other better. By determining graph it has been evaluated that 20 out of 50 respondents said that trip and event will increase
level of connectivity among them. As if they spend informal time with each other it enhances their sense of compatibility. On the other
hand other 15 out of 50 respondents are also agree with the same. In addition to this, remaining 5 out of 50 are neutral and other 5 out
of 50 are disagree. Lastly, remaining 5 out of 50 are strongly disagree.
6. The program use in effect of changing standard of living
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Strongly agree
Agree
neural
Disagree
Strongly disagree
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
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1 2 3 4 5
0
5
10
15
20
25
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Interpretation:
As per the graph this has been evaluated that 25 out of 50 respondents strongly agree with the fact that programme use in
effectively use of changing standards of living. On the other hand 10 out of 50 respondents agree with same fact. Along with this,
other 5 out of 50 respondents are neutral and remaining 5 are disagree. Lastly, 5 out of 50 strongly disagree.
Qualitative research: In this type of research collection of data. The information is not collected in numerical form although it will
usefully providing the feeling and perception of employers towards the organization. The data are define in numerical values.
 Will the equity and diversity acknowledgment programme help in increasing sales
 Will these program help in increasing quantify of the department
 Gender equality program use in social responsibility.
 The company able to reduce the issue of equity and diversity
 The Unilever manger are work in effective and influencing manner.
 Does all these event useful in changing perception of employers towards the countries.
All these qualitative and qualitative data has been used in defying and analysing the perception and changes comes in employers after
the completion of the project it also help full in identifying the effectiveness’ of project .
M2: Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of primary and secondary methods applied.
Primary and secondary data are useful in collecting of the source information. In this case of Unilever, most of information is
collected by taking interview of the employers as their personal experience s help in formulating of report .On the other side, for
getting qualitative data, use of previous source help in comparing an formulating and well as collection business data.
D1: Critically evaluate the project management process and methods applied for gathering information and data collection.
The managements department use project managements procure in order to build their project, for this purpose, they use project
planning, project launching implementation, ad feedback these steps are help in starting and ending of business project. For
identifying the fact of the project of equity on employers, primary and secondary date are collected by using source of observation,
interview in order of identifying the effect of this project on identifying perception of employers toward diversity and equity.
TASK 3
P5 Research and data using appropriate tools and techniques
The present report includes survey method in order to gather authentic information and data from the respondents so that whole
investigation will be able to draw a valid conclusion. It has been identified after examining the whole information that equality and
diversity are the essential elements of an organization which have the capability to influence overall result of the investigation in both
positive and negative way. Also, these findings help in developing recommendations and suggestions for the management team so
they can develop positive outcomes effectively (Turker and Altuntas, 2014). All the information gathered by researchers from the
survey method is required to be adopted as well as examined in a detail manner so that proper outcome will be developed by the
management team related to the topic.
P6 Recommendations
With the assistance of above discussion, it is said that equality as well as diversity plays very essential role in the growth and
development of the organization at competitive and difficult marketplace. In reference to this, it has also been said that management
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Agree
neural
Disagree
Strongly disagree
0
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10
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team needs to consider some aspects so that they will be able to gain more profitability and opportunities in the near future. Some of
the recommendations are given to the higher authorities of Unilever are going to be discussed as follows:
 The first and most essential recommendation given to the higher authorities of Unilever is that they must adopt all the legal
acts and legislations such as Equality Act, 2010 in order to create equal opportunities to each and every person at the
workplace. Apart from this, it will assist them in order to motivate so that they can perform all their functions and operation in
an effective and appropriate manner.
 Unilever needs to treat all their staff members whether new or old in equal manner and provide equal opportunity to them so
that they can easily attain their predefined targets and objectives.
 Furthermore, it is also very necessary for the higher authorities to involve their workers in their decision making process so
they feel the part of the business entity and provide their contribution in the development and growth of the company
(Boserup, Tan and Toulmin, 2013). This as a result assist them in grabbing opportunities available at the marketplace and leads
towards the enhancement of profitability and revenue of the company.
M3 Evaluate the selection of appropriate tools and techniques for accuracy and authenticity to support and justify recommendations.
To execute the current research in an effective and appropriate way, it becomes very important for the investigator to adopt
appropriate methods which assist them in order gather all the data and information in systematic manner related to the specific topic.
For conducting the research and gathering information in a right manner, it becomes essential to adopt both primary and secondary
data collection method (Hoejmose and Adrien-Kirby, 2012). For this, primary and secondary both methods are used by researcher
where in context of primary questionnaires is formulated and on the other hand in relation to secondary method, books, journals,
online websites and many other sources are used by researcher in the present report.
While doing the investigation for Unilever, it has been observed by me that there are various issues, challenges and problems
faced by the employees while doing business operations at the workplace related to equality and diversity . In order to eliminate the
issues and problems faced by employees, there are some recommendations given to the top management team of the company which
are as follows:
 It is said that management team of Unilever need to product training and development session to their staff members so they
can develop knowledge and understanding about the equality and diversity practices.
 The higher authorities of the business entity need to interact with their employees on a regular basis so they can analyse
the issues and problems faced by them in an appropriate and effective manner.
TASK 4
P7 Value of undertaking the investigation in order to meet stated objectives and own learning and performance
It is the part of the research where discussion is made about the learning and understanding related to the topic. It is usually
conducted to develop a systematic effective understanding about the concept of equality & diversity practices. In this report, it has
been also been discussed about different strategies associated to manage the diversified culture at the workplace. For this, effective
aim and objectives has been developed with the help of which whole report get a structure (Stromquist and Monkman, 2014). It has
also been identified that by adopting questionnaires method that this is the most difficult and time consuming task which requires lot
of efforts and time in order to complete the whole research appropriately. On the basis of my own learning, it can be said that I have
lot of things from this investigation the main among them are several skills such as communication, leadership skill, time
management, presentation, team working, collaboration, decision making, problem solving, critical thinking and many others (Idowu
and et. al., 2013). Along with this, development of these skills will help them out in conducting more effective research in the near
future. In addition to this, having effective command over these skills would definitely help me out in enhances chances of my
professional growth that would contribute in attaining success in the near future effectively.
M4 Value of the project management process and use of quality research to meet stated objectives and support own learning and
performance
This is the time of research, it has been observed by me that project management plan is quite essential for conducting the
whole research in a successful manner (Lasserre, 2017 ). With the help of gathering and collecting all the information in a
systematic manner, all the activities will comes in a proper manner and produce positive outcomes.
CONCLUSION
With the assistance of above mentioned investigation, it is concluded that equality and diversity plays very crucial role in the
growth and development of a business entity as employees need to feel safe and secure while doing their business functions. This is
the report, which requires effective strategies and policies with the help of which employees will be retained at the company for longer
period of time. Along with this, after examining the whole research, it has been concluded that questionnaire is the method which is
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time consuming and requires lot of understanding and knowledge related to the topic which is quite difficult task. In addition to this,
the present study includes various methods, tools and techniques from which both primary as well as secondary along with
quantitative research method are used by researcher so that positive outcome will be produced by the investigator.
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Ji, Y.X., Du, H.J. and Sun, H., 2014. A survey of state of charge estimation methods. Electrical Measurement &
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Cetin, L.T., Shrestha, M.K., Rahman, J. and Sands, M., 2018. Calibration of a catchment-scale water quality model using PEST.
In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (HWRS 2018): Water and Communities (p. 777). Engineers Australia.
Arnous, M.O., El-Rayes, A.E. and Green, D.R., 2015. Hydrosalinity and environmental land degradation assessment of the East Nile
Delta region, Egypt. Journal of coastal conservation, 19(4), pp.491-513.
Boncompagni, R. and Peris, A., 2018. Blood Marrow Transplantation. In Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Cancer
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Pawar, M.D., 2015. 10 years after implementation of TRIPS obligations in India. Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, 4(3), pp.147-159.
Fandi, E.I.M., Gazal, B.K. and El-Amori, A., 2015. Implementation of Stimulation Treatment for Gas-lift Well in Sirt Basin,
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Crane, A. and Matten, D., 2016. Business ethics: Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization.
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Boserup, E., Tan, S. F. and Toulmin, C., 2013. Woman's role in economic development. Routledge.
Idowu, S. O., and et. al., 2013. Encyclopedia of corporate social responsibility (Vol. 21). New York: Springer.
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