Reasons for Employee Turnover in Hotel Industry

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Reasons for Employee Turnover in Hotel Industry
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Executive Summary
Aiming to generate a fair and comprehensive view about the aspect of employee turnover in the
hotel industry of Australia, this research report plunges into an in-depth analysis of the causes
that leads to the perpetration of the high employee turnover. This research report also delves into
a discussion of the effects of high employee turnover. This report also delves deeper into the
aspect of finding relevant solutions to the above-mentioned problem. The report recommends
that to reduce the cases of employee turnover, the hotel industry must trace the exact causes and
gauge the effects to adopt the solutions. The report concludes that the aspect of employee
turnover is dependent on many causes.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................5
Hotel Industry..............................................................................................................................5
Employee Turnover.....................................................................................................................6
Research Gap...............................................................................................................................7
Research Variables......................................................................................................................8
Methods Employed..........................................................................................................................8
Research Plan...............................................................................................................................8
Data Analysis.............................................................................................................................11
Findings.....................................................................................................................................11
Discussion..................................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
Recommendations......................................................................................................................13
Limitations.................................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................13
Reference.......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
One of the most important departments of an organization is the human resource
department. They are vested with the responsibility of checking the rates of employee turnover.
Over the past few years, it has been seen that the employee turnover rates in the hotel industry
have been accentuating in a rapid pace (Park & Levy, 2014). This study aims to explore the
reasons for such happenings. In addition to this, this research report will project the manner in
which the research had arrived at the findings.
The term ‘employee turnover’ refers to the manner and the rate in which employees leave
the organizations and the number of employees who replace them. This also points towards the
rate of the employee attrition. Recent studies present that employee turnover rates depend on the
factors of the commitment exhibited by employees as well as the performance of the
organizations (Irefin, P., & Mechanic, 2014). It has to be accepted that properly computing the
percentage of employee turnover rates can reflect the reasons and help the organizations in
erasing the factors that lead to employees leaving the companies. In addition to this, it is
important for the Human Resource Department to comprehend the reasons for the rate of the
employee turnover that can assist in the smooth functioning of the organization.
Many cases of employee attrition and employee turnover severely affects the future
prospects of the organizations. This is a major problem now because the increase in the
employee turnover can disrupt the functioning and act as an impediment in generating the
required revenue. Repeated and continuous cases of employee turnover can shake the very
foundations of the hotel industry. The research problem that is identified is that though there are
innumerable causes of employee turnover, the prevalent researches does not try to delve deeper