Project Report: Analyzing Waitrose's Diverse Workforce Initiatives

This report analyzes a business project focused on evaluating and improving workforce diversity within Waitrose. The project encompasses several key areas, including defining project aims and objectives, producing a detailed project management plan, developing a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart for effective task management, and conducting both primary and secondary research to gather relevant data. The research employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, including surveys and interviews, to collect comprehensive information. Data analysis is performed using appropriate tools and techniques to draw meaningful conclusions. The report also includes recommendations based on the findings and a reflection on the project's value. The ultimate goal is to assess the effectiveness of Waitrose's diversity initiatives and suggest improvements for fostering an inclusive and productive work environment. The report aims to offer insights into the impact of diversity on employee engagement and the overall success of the business, with specific focus on how Waitrose can ensure a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Managing a Successful
Business project

Table of Content
Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Project aims and objectives...............................................................................................1
P2 Produce of project management plan................................................................................2
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart...................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Carry out small-scale research..........................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Data analysis with use of suitable tools and techniques....................................................8
P6 Recommendation.............................................................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13
P7 Reflection on the value that is undertaken while completing the project.......................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

TITLE
“To conclude the scheme and initiative companies to get ensure the diverse workforce”.
A case study on Waitrose.
INTRODUCTION
The fairness and assortment within the workplace will get shows the attitude and
behaviour of the company towards the acceptance of the people that belongs from different
place. It will get induced the positive approach of the business through which they get attract the
different personality that has huge knowledge and more talent by which the it helps to complete
the goal and objective of the company within the certain period of time (Acurio, 2019). Equality
brings more similar level of opportunities that get provided to each of the employee that are
working within the company without getting differentiating them on the basis of male and female
as well. On the other hand, diversity is being relatable to get recruit the talent of that get belongs
from different place, religion, caste, race etc. The Waitrose is the chosen organisation that is the
British supermarket and it is the largest employee owned retailer and have work with 52950
number if employee and having the head office in Bracknell and Victoria, England. This report
includes the aim and objective, project plan, execution and reflection.
TASK 1
P1 Project aims and objectives
To conclude initiative as well as strategy that get implies within the workforce in order to
develop the diverse surround. In recent scenario, a lot of businesses have been managed their
business in international platform in order to gain more achievable benefits and to cover the
larger market share. By managing the diverse workforce the Waitrose get accept the employee
who has a lot of talent and more skills and because of their work the working ability and
capability of the business will get more developed. It is the most creative approach of the
business and with that they have attract the large number if people from different places to get
accomplish the target with more perfection and timely basis as well (AYDIN, 2018).
Aim- “To conclude the scheme and initiative companies to get ensure the diverse
workforce”. The Waitrose must have enhanced the working behaviour of the company by
making and accepting the diverse workforce and thus in parallel the participation and the
engagement of the employee also get achieved that takes the business to higher heights.
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Objectives
 To amass additional data about the diversity and its impact within the employees.
 To measure the effectiveness of the different strategy those are applied within the
Waitrose.
 To quantify the usefulness and reward of the assortment in the personnel.
 To investigate the smash of diverse workforce within the Waitrose.
 To be acquainted with the period and sexual characteristics that getting incorporated in
the diverse workforce
 To scrutinize the reliance and belief that gets developed while making the diverse
employee in the business.
P2 Produce of project management plan
Project execution plan is written documents that get define the different process that is
most needed to get complete the project with more perfection. These factors as execution,
planning, monitoring, controlling and implementing of different functions and operation by
which the adequate command will get induced by which more accurate outcomes will get
achieved (Chang, 2019). The execution of the project is more important as it get provide more
relatedness and better commitment under which suitable outcomes will get achieved which is
always be more helpful for the augmentation and progress of the business. It is the plan that is
more useful as with that all the risk will get managed by which more systematically all the
quality will get maintained by which smooth services will get flawed.
Project plan
Aim and deliverables: To intend of the project is to increase additional effectiveness
regarding the diverse scheme and scheme that are taken to consider the diverse workforce within
the company. It is mostly get used to develop the diverse employee to get systematic information
which is highly attractive to improvise the change.
Scope: It get defines the scope of the project by which more vulnerability get enhanced
within the employee by acknowledging the diverse nature. To get attain the scope of the project
it is more required to make effective utilisation of all the resources. It helps to standardise the
working nature and behaviour of the employee by Waitrose get achieve their set goals within the
duration.
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Project cost: It defines the net cost that is interlinked while completing the project as to get
accomplish the ordinal project as in that £10 is associated with the travelling cost and £50 get
related to collection the data
Travelling £10
Half day in data collection – time off from
work
£50
Total £60
Time: It is related to the total instance that is taken to complete the entire chore that are
needed to get attain the better conclusion of the project. In this the researcher has needed the 4
week to complete the project and within this have allocate appropriate time to all the different
performance that are required to get perform to absolute the development (Cletus, 2018).
Quality: It defines the ending output of all the research and the better outcome get achieved
by making the effectual consumption of all the required sources. It is being helpful for the
Waitrose as they get the sufficient conclusion as from the management of the plan as the data get
collected from all the required respondents and make appropriate interpretation and analysis by
which clear aspect get presented. In this Waitrose make decision to make better change within
the business with slotted period.
Communication: It is the processes through which the relevant and important information
will get transfer from the sender to the receiver to get impart more clarity and simplified
outcomes get transmit while conducting the project. It is more needed as it helps to make suitable
interaction with the other people and it helps to make more simplified output that has been
carried out with lot of simplicity. In this the researcher have used different method of
communication as like telephonic interview and questionnaire, interviews, collecting feedback,
internet etc.
Information Receiver Method of
communication
Sender
Aims and
objectives
Students Email Researcher
Research
methodology
Students Email Researcher
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Data collection
and analyses
Students Email Researcher
Risk: It will comes in parallel with the profit as much the risk has been taken that much
profit will get gained by the researcher and the company. It will get improvised the consistency
and productivity of the project by which the issue and barrier has been reduced and the working
efficiency get develop. It is done by making different segments by which the rate of profit gets
enhanced (Coltman, 2019).
Resources: It contain the unlike factor that are more needed to acquire the generally research
in the sturdy basis and these possessions are as like printing machines, phones, team, human
resource, books etc. It will induce more beneficiary result by allocating the cost to all activities
by which project completion rate get more developed.
P3 Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart
Gantt chart: It is the chart that will get old to make the satisfactory result by dividing the
overall project into the different activities and task by which everything will get completed with
more perfection and with more precision as well. It is more vital as by this the overall project get
divided by which the researcher get monitor each task to save to time and reduces the complexity
as well (Georgiadou, 2019). It is more sufficient to make the effective decision making that get
enhance the productivity and profitability of the research and helps to company to make
advantageous changes.
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Work Breakdown structure: It is an arrangement in which the largely job will get
alienated into the different slots thus the redundancy and the uncertainty will get reduced or
removed as well (Grissom, 2018). Work breakdown structure is more useful as with this the
more easiness get provided to the researcher and with this they have try to get provide the
affordable changes as per the requirement at any activity by which the overall project will get
managed with lot of satisfactoriness.
TASK 2
P4 Carry out small-scale research
Market investigate defines the process as by which appropriate knowledge will obtain
collect to get depth information about certain topic that gets helps to complete the research with
more correctness. It is the approach to get collect adequate information about the certified range
with that the needs of the project get carry out.
Primary research- It is the research that get conduced while collecting the data and
information from the ample source (Hatipoglu, 2018). In this research the data will get collect by
performing the survey and interview that is conduct by the researcher while making direct
connection with the people. This will get perform for first time and with that have contained
more accurate outcomes.
Secondary research- In this research in which the information get composed as of the data
that get previously available in the market and that will be in the form of newspaper, magazines,
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financial reports, books, journals etc. It is even more important for the researcher with that they
have got measured the précised output.
Qualitative research methods- It is a method through which the statistics get calm in the
shape of data that get developed on the basis of the interviews, immersion, observation, focus on
relative subject, oral history, conduction of the open ended survey, visual and textual observation
(Jozwiak, 2019). These data will get make possible from the facts and figure and that will self
assess by the researcher to attain favourable product.
Quantitative research method: In this method the data will get assemble in the form of
mathematical expression, numerical analysis, statistical attitude that all get analysed from the
survey, questionnaire, and polls as well. In this different tools and technique get used to make
better use of pre-exist data.
Sampling: It is method through which the particular market will get target by which they
have conducted the research by make more effectiveness result. In this report the researcher get
designed the sample size of research be 40.
The management department and the researcher of the Waitrose get the efficient outcome
by analysing the graph by which suitable changes will imply within the business in the future to
make more profit.
Questionnaire
Q1) What is regulate period set of individuals to work in the Waitrose?
a) 22-35
b) 35-50
Q2) Identify the sexual characteristics starting which the figures have been together to expand
auxiliary facts regarding diverse personnel?
a) Male
b) Female
Q3) Did Waitrose involves diverse approach to enhance the diverse workforce to complete the
extraordinary requirements of the workforce?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) Did diverse employees raise the working customs and trust among the workforce of
Waitrose?
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a) Yes
b) No
Q5) What is the traditions of the assorted personnel in the Waitrose?
a) To stimulate workforce
b) To execute change
c) To job successfully inside company
Q6) Did you undergo various workforce support the operational situation of the Waitrose?
A) Yes
B) No
Q7) Is recruitment is blond within the Waitrose and counting the outlook to the wider culture?
a) Yes
b) No
Q8) Did you believe that Waitrose has consistent personnel or not?
Q9) Is the training process is vital for the organization of the Waitrose and if yes afterwards
which guidance process will offer extra expensive result?
TASK 3
P5 Data analysis with use of suitable tools and techniques
Q1) What is regulate period set of individuals to work in the Waitrose? Frequency
a) 22-35 30
b) 35-50 10
a) 22-35
b) 35-50
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Frequency
Frequency
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Interpretation: The above graph show out of 40, 30 candidates are those that are of the
age group in between the 22-35 and rest 10 have of the age group of the 35-50. In this most of
employee of the younger that shows Waitrose has recruit new talent on continuous basis (Kang,
2019).
Q2) Identify the sexual characteristics starting which the figures have been
together to expand auxiliary facts regarding diverse personnel?
Frequency
a) Male 25
b) Female 15
a) Male
b) Female
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: The above graph, that out of 40 candidates, 25 are those who are male
candidates and the rest 15 are the female. Thus Waitrose have provide the better opportunity to
all to major more changes and creativeness within the company.
Q3) Did Waitrose involves diverse approach to enhance the diverse
workforce to complete the extraordinary requirements of the workforce?
Frequency
a) Yes 30
b) No 10
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a) Yes
b) No
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: The above graph shows that out of 40 respondents, 30 are those that
believe that Waitrose have enhanced the diverse employee whether the rest, 10 didn’t believe the
same (Panicker, 2018). Thus more are in favour of that Waitrose have induced diverse personnel
in the commerce.
Q4) Did diverse employees raise the working customs and trust among the
workforce of Waitrose?
Frequency
a) Yes 27
b) No 13
a) Yes
b) No
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Frequency
Frequency
Interpretation: It has been concluded from the above graph that in total, 27 are those
that believe that diverse employee have raise the custom and faith in between the workforce
while other 13 are not in favour of this. Thus Waitrose have generated more faith and trust while
using diversity in the business.
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