Talent Management Practices in Hotel Premier Inn 7: Research Project Overview

Research project

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................3
Introduction............................................................................................................................3
Background.............................................................................................................................3
Research Problem...................................................................................................................3
Research Aim.........................................................................................................................4
Research Objectives...............................................................................................................4
Research Questions................................................................................................................4
Research Purpose....................................................................................................................4
Research Scope.......................................................................................................................4
Research Hypothesis..............................................................................................................5
Attributes of work...................................................................................................................5
Rationale for research topic....................................................................................................5
Chapter Preview.....................................................................................................................5
Time framework.....................................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Literature Review...........................................................................................................7
Significance of talent management practices in context of Hotel Premier inn......................7
What required ways through which an organisation can manage talent to retain and develop
current workforce of firm.......................................................................................................8
How can talent management proved effective in order to attain future business objectives 9
Chapter 3: Research Methodology...................................................................................................9
Chapter 4: Data Findings, Analysis and Discussion......................................................................12
Chapter 5: Conclusion, Recommendations and anticipated Limitations.......................................18
Reflection.............................................................................................................................18
Recommendation..................................................................................................................18
Limitation.............................................................................................................................18
Conclusion............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20

Chapter 1: Introduction
Introduction
Talent management is a chain of activities concerned with attracting, developing and
retaining employees to gain competitive advantage. It is one of the most useful terms for an
organisational commitment to recruit, hire and develop talented and superior personnel in job. It
is an kind of business strategy ensuring about attracting and retaining talent personnel in
comparison to other fierce competitors. This research report is based on Hotel Premier inn which
is a British chain of hotels and it is one of largest brand name in hotel industry. It has more than
72,000 rooms and 785 hotels. It operates in kinds of locations in city centres and airports to link
with Travelodge and IbIs hotels. This research is based on to find out requirement of talent
management to gain potential workforce to meet future requirements.
Background
Talent management is an approach for managing human capital throughout business. In
talent management consist of recruitment, selection and retention by considering potentiality of
high performance or qualities of leadership in an individual (Al Ariss, Cascio and Paauwe,
2014). It is a core part of human resource management to give competitive advantage to their
fierce competitors. This research is based on Hotel Premier Inn that is a well known British chain
of hotels and has large portfolio of products to remain always competitive in marketplace. That
organisation established by Whitbread in 1987 as a Travel inn with Travelodge. It is one of UK's
largest chain of hotels with 72000 rooms and large no. of hotels.
Research Problem
Research problem is an written statement or an area of concern in both theory or practice
that needs a thorough understanding to get meaningful results and investigation to reap out
important results behind problem or concern (Cappelli and Keller, 2014). Research problem is
very much important for reader to depict significance of topic being studied. To place problem in
a particular subject manner and design framework to get desirable outcomes to reap out
important results in proper way. In research some problems face by researcher that are lack in
sources such as books, print source to gather information and journals with problem of time and
fund is a general research problem. In that research the main problem that sometimes researcher

failed to find out adequate data and statistics to reach at desirable goals and objectives in proper
way.
Research Aim
Talent Management: To identify requirement of talent management for retaining and
developing current workers to meet future business objectives. A study on Premier inn.
Research Objectives
 To analyse requirement of talent management practices in Premier Inn.
 To analyse various ways through which an organisation can manage talent to retain and
develop current workforce of firm.
 To determine effectiveness of talent management in order to attain future business
objectives.
Research Questions
 Significance of talent management practices in context of Hotel Premier inn?
 What required ways through which an organisation can manage talent to retain and
develop current workforce of firm?
 How talent management can proved effective in order to attain future business
objectives?
Research Purpose
Main cause to conduct research is to collect important knowledge and information about
talent management. TM find helpful to analyse and evaluate role of talent management to retain
one of most competitive staff members in organisation. It also helps in important mechanism by
applying kinds of tools and techniques to retain potential workforce. In context of Premier inn
which is a brand name in hospitality industry to remain always competitive in marketplace they
have to apply talent management plan to reach at desirable outcomes in proper way.
Research Scope
Research scope refers to how much in depth the research area should be explored and
various parameters in which study should be operated. In that report research is based on
evaluating effectiveness of talent management programs to acquire and retain competent staff
members in an organisation (Collings, Scullion and Vaiman, 2015). It also helps in gaining
organisational goals and objectives to remain always competitive in marketplace.

Research Hypothesis
Research hypothesis is an written statement that developed by researchers at time of
speculate outcomes of research or experiment. In context of Hotel premier inn they also
developed a right kind of hypothesis to predict future outcomes.
Attributes of work
The major attributes of that research work is to find out major concerns over research
subject area by collecting knowledge and information from different sources to gain desirable
outcomes.
Rationale for research topic
For that research the topic is talent management and it is an important area to conduct
research because employees are one of most important assets for an organisation. To attain and
retain one of most talented personnel as per need of an organisation is very much important. So
find out the ways from talent staff members can be attained.
Chapter Preview
Talent Management: To identify requirement of talent management for retaining and
developing current workers to meet future business objectives. A study on Premier inn. Talent
management is one of important aspect to manage and retain one of most precious assets of an
organisation so that organisation can give their best to gain competitive advantage. This research
report is based on Hotel Premier inn which is an large chain of hotels and operates in various
nations so to remain always competitive in market place organisation have to adopt various
practices to retain competitive staff members. To collect data and information organisation use
various kinds of tools and techniques in which most importantly used techniques are Primary and
secondary research methods and quantitative data collection method also used by them.
Timescale is one of most important part to reach at desirable goals and objectives at pre
determined time scale. With help of Gantt chart and work break down structure organisation can
be able to divide works in smaller parts. Before conducting research and development it is very
important to gather necessary knowledge and information, tools and techniques, manpower and
sources to collect reliable information.
Time framework
Gantt chart

Gantt chart is a kind of bar chart which illustrates about schedules and time series to
accomplish a work and procedures at a pre determined time period. Henry Gantt developed it in
year 1910 to 1915. Recent Gantt chart shows activities between and current schedules to attain
desirable goals and objectives in proper way.