Vodafone: Project on Implementing Diversity and Inclusion Strategies

This report analyzes a project focused on fostering diversity and inclusion within Vodafone. It begins with an introduction outlining the importance of an inclusive workplace and the benefits of a diverse workforce. The report then delves into the project's objectives, research questions, and project management plan, including cost analysis, scope definition, and time management. A work breakdown structure and Gantt chart are developed to illustrate project timelines and stages. The research methodology involves both primary and secondary data collection methods, including questionnaires. Findings are presented using suitable tools and techniques, followed by recommendations based on the data analysis to conclude the project. Finally, the report includes a reflection on the project and its outcomes.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Devise purpose as well as objective of project related to given scenario..............................3
P2 Develop a plan related to managing a project that includes aim, time, quality, risk,
resources and communication......................................................................................................4
P3 Develop a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to offer timeframes and stages for
completion...................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Apply small scale research through primary as well as secondary method suitable for
achieving aim and objective of projects......................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P5: Present finding and data adopting suitable tools and techniques.......................................11
P6 Communicate suitable Recommendations as a result of finding and analysis of data to mark
valid conclusion.........................................................................................................................16
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................17
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
Books and Journals....................................................................................................................19
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INTRODUCTION
To develop effective and conformable working culture in the company every organization
need to create all-in &diverse workforce. It is the duty of higher authority and supervisor to
carefully look after the employees and provide them positive working environment at workplace.
Inclusive workplace refers to working culture of the organization that respect and values the
individual and enhance their ability and capability. Inclusive workforce helps in increasing
talent, productivity and sales of the organization. Organizations can create inclusive working
environment by listening their employees, communicating goals and major progress to
employees etc. Management have to encourage and motivate employees and treat each and every
employee equally. Implementing fairness & assortment within the organization help the
organization in increasing productivity and profitability and also help in reaching towards vision
and mission of the company in a proper manner. This report considers Vodafone a
telecommunication company, Vodafone was established in 1991 in London it is a private limited
company. It was founded by Gerry When& Ernest Harrison. Vodafone performed their business
across the world and to maintain and manage their image across the world company develop or
create some policies and strategies to manage impartiality &diverseness at workplace. The
research is directed on the aim and objectives of the company. This research also discussed
Gantt chart, project management plan, performance break down formation and tools and
techniques of research. This research is going to be directed in constructive and effective way
(Angarica and del Sol, 2017).
TASK 1
P1 Devise purpose as well as objective of project related to given scenario.
Research motive – The main motive behind this research is to identify many policies and
strategies and their advantages or benefits to the company while executing these strategies in
sequence to develop impartiality & diverseness at workplace to develop fair & assorted
workforce. The case study is conducted on Vodafone.
Objective of the research –
 To studied a significance of the inclusive & diverse staff members.
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 To recognize the different policies established by an organization to develop assorted and
inclusive staff members.
 To analyse the advantages of establishing such policies within an organization for
developing assorted & all-in staff members.
Questions of the research
 What is the significance of the inclusive & diverse employees?
 What are the different policies established by the business entity to create a diverse and
inclusive staff member?
 What are the advantages of executing these policies within the business organization to
create diverse & all-in workplace?
P2 Develop a plan related to managing a project that includes aim, time, quality, risk, resources
and communication.
Project management refers to the directing to control arrange, & maintain resources for
accomplishment of the project in effective and efficient manner along with this achieve the target
of a project. The basic objective of the project is just to complete a project on time and attain the
objective with success. The major restriction of any project is range, financial plan, and time
value. In sequence to attain the objective project manager need to allocate resources in proper
and effective manner. For project management project manager arrange some resources and
equipment to attain the one-time project goal. Management of project involves project plan,
allocation of resources, arrangement of resources and at the end complete a project and attain the
objective of the project in defined manner. Some of the factors of project management plans are
cost, size, scope & far more (Binford, 2017).
. Cost –To run a project in successful way project higher authority requireto analyse a cost.
It is important for manager to examine the cost before starting the project because sometimes
project is incomplete due to lack of financials resource.If this happen then all the invested money
and efforts of employees in project is also going to be waste.While facing this kind of situation
project manager require to switch the plan. Executive should pay proper attention and analyse
the cost requirement before starting the project. Vodafone’s managers need to analyse the
strategies to know about that which strategy is beneficial for creating diverse and all-in staff in
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a companyfor this they need to conduct effective research need 50000 pounds for effective
research.
Scope –Project manager or executive also need to define the scope of project and communicate it
to other members of project. The conducted research has hugerangein amarket as it helps in
implementing all policies related withimpartiality & diversenessat workplace in the organization.
similarly,like this it was also recognized that the research assists in grabbing huge number of
opportunities available at the marketplace which help in generating profit and also enlargethe
sales and productivity of a business entity.
Time to completion – To match the level of performance of project members there is
requirement to set a proper time to competition of work. If project is running with set completion
time then it is easy for project manager to accomplish their project before set time or on set time.
To finish this current research directed on Vodafone needs around 6 to 7 months creating an
effective outcome (Blaikie and Priest, 2019).
Performance and Quality – Project demand high performance of project members and good
quality work. Quality of project is controlled or managed by department of quality control.
Performance of the project members is maintained by the management of organization, there are
various tool and techniques to manage the performance of members of one-time project. While
conducted research it is the responsibility of the researcher to analyse the quality of collected
information and data to conduct effective and qualitative research.
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Communication –The project manager needs proper and effective communication to convey or
share the idea and process of the project. A project can be get successful only with effective
communication among members together for a project. Effective communication is the necessary
part of an any research and project. With a help of successful communication, researcher can
direct their workforce to execute all their task and activities in effective manner and achieve the
goals of the project or research properly.
Risk – Risk is the part of every organization, risk consist in each and every business
organization, project and research. Management of risk include analysing and managing the risk
of the project to attain the objective. In research risk is collection of irrelevant data and
information.
P3 Develop a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to offer timeframes and stages for
completion
Gantt chart: Gantt chart is a pictorial representation of the activities and task that is
executed by the researcher. The founder of this model is Henry Gantt specifies time needed for
completing a particular project(Dybå and Dingsøyr, 2015). Apart from this, it displays the start
as well as finished date and time which are taken for performing the activities in well-defined
manner. The primal purpose of this model is to finish overall performance in positive way for
achieving the goals in less time period.
Work Breakdown structure: This structure is adopted for divided the whole projects into small
parts. It assists the business firm to handle their large projects by allocating them in small
activities. The task is allotted in grading form in which member of team focuses on finishing
Different task in an effective manner
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TASK 2
P4 Apply small scale research through primary as well as secondary method suitable for
achieving aim and objective of projects
Quantitative as well as Qualitative research is adopted to assess the data and information
which is used to complete the projects for achieving the objective of business firm.
Qualitative: In this method, the data which is taken must be in good quality. It is
necessary for the researcher that data must be represented in graphical manner. The data must
have good quality in order to get accuracy as well as relevancy (Faqih, and Jaradat, 2015). In
addition to this, the data collected must be achieving the goal and objective of making projects.
Quantitative: In this method, the data is collected through different methods such as
questionnaire, polls as well as survey and so on. It provides exact data and information,
therefore, the researcher adopt quantitative data at large scale.
On the basis of above mentioned topics of research, it has been analysed that the data
which is collected by quantitative technique is much dependable and accurate. And all the data
and information must be represented in numerical terms.
Methods of data collection:
There is different method which is used for collecting the information by investigator
which is going to be mentioned below:
Primary: The data which is collected through primary research is first hand data. This
information is not collected by any other researcher. In addition to this, the data gathered through
this research is time consuming and expensive. The data is collected through different methods
such as survey, interview as well as questionnaire and many more(Havenvid, Håkansson, and
Linné, 2016).
. Secondary: Herein, the researcher collected that information which is already acquired
by any other investigator for some other purpose. There are some methods which is used for
collecting information such as newspaper, magazines as well as internet.
Questionnaire
Q1) Are you have knowledge in respect of fairness as well assortment at workplace?
a) True
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b) False
Q2) Are you have an idea concerning the remarkableness of assorted as well as all-impersonal
at workplace?
a) True
b) False
Q3) Explain an advantages to firm by executing quality at organization?
a) Decreasing staffs income
b) Recruiting a competent personnel
c) Emerging an innovative place of work
d) catching a better customer market
Q4) How these both concept fairness as well as diversity assists in developing a suitable staff
for business firm?
a) Favourable method
b) Adverse method
c) Neutral
Q5) In your opinion, what kinds of strategies which is adopted by Vodafone to maintain an
assorted as well as all-impersonal?
a) Build cultural Events
b) Gather addition feedback continuously
c) idiom education Empowerment
Q6) What problems and issues occur for Vodafone in order to build diverse as well as inclusive
workforce?
a) Cultural as well as civilizing Variances
b) Language as well as Communication
c) Gender fairness
Q7) Mention various methods which is adopted by Vodafone to overcome form adverse impact
of diverse as well as complete workplace.
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TASK 3
P5: Present finding and data adopting suitable tools and techniques
Sampling: There are two types of means of sampling one is non-probability and other is
probability. The investigator adopts chances sampling technique for assessing an effect of
assorted as well as fairness within the organization. There are 40 respondents which are taken
into consideration by adopting probability sampling method (Marx and Soares, 2016). Whereas,
non-probability sample method is not adopted because it entails large amount of resources within
business organisation.
Theme 1: knowledge in respect of equality as well as diversity at workplace.
Q1 Are you have knowledge in respect of fairness as well assortment at
workplace?
Frequency
a)True 30
b) False 10
Interpretation: From the above discussed diagram, it has been examined that it is
necessary to have knowledge in respect of fairness as well as assorted within the company. There
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are 30 respondents who have exact idea in respect of equality and diversity. Whereas, there are
10 persons do not have any idea regarding equality as well as diversity at workplace.
Theme 2: Idea regarding the significance of diverse as well as inclusive personnel at
workplace.
Q2) Are you have an idea concerning the remarkableness of assorted as well as
all-in personnel at workplace?
Frequency
a) True 35
b) False 5
Interpretation: From the basis of above represented graph, it has been analysed that it is
necessary to have a knowledge regarding the significance of equality as well as diversity at
workplace. There are 35 respondents who have knowledge in respect of equity as well as
diversity for the success and growth of business organisation. On the other hand, there are 5
person do not believes in equality as well as diversity within business organisation.
Theme 3: Advantages to business firm by executing quality at workplace.
Q3) Explain the advantages to business firm by executing quality at Frequency
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