Challenges of Turnover at Hilton Hotel

Assessment 1: Defense of Research Project
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Challenges of Turnover at Hilton Hotel

Introduction
 Employee Turnover is the movement of workers in and out of the
organization (Cho & Lewis, 2012).
 High Turnover has cost implications on a company as it spends a lot
of its resources on training and orientation of the replacements of the
leaving employees.
 Also, the new employees take time before reaching optimum
production capacity (Vuyisile, 2013).
 Like any other business in the travel industry, Hilton faces many
human resources issues, with turnover being the most important

Research Context
Pertinent historical information about the Company
 The Hilton Hotel and Resorts started from a humble beginning in
1919, and close to a century, the hotel chain has expanded to be
come one of the most important players in the travel and hospitality
industry.
 The business has performed exemplary and now boast of many
branches in over 80 countries across the globe.
 The company employs thousands of employees with different cultural
background catering to clients with diverse backgrounds

Research Context
The circumstances which have led to the need to undertake Research
 The company realized that every year, a number of employees were
leaving employment with the company necessitating constant
employment of new employees. The Hilton Hotels
 On further investigations, there was realization that the problem was
not unique to Hilton Hotels and Resorts, but it is an industry-wide
challenge.
 In the hospitality industry, out of all the employees employed within a
year, about half of them are likely to leave the organization