Impact of Talent Management Practices on Employee Motivation and Performance in the Hospitality Sector

This research project aims to investigate the impact of talent management practices, specifically training and development sessions, on employee motivation and performance in the hospitality sector. The study will focus on Hilton as a case study. The research will include chapters on aims, objectives, literature review, research methodology, data analysis and interpretations, research outcomes, reflection, and recommendations. The research will provide insights into the influence of talent management practices on employee performance and motivation in the hospitality sector.

RESEARCH PROJECT PART
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Table of Contents
TITLE..........................................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................................................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY................................................................................................................6
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATIONS.......................................................................................9
RESEARCH OUTCOMES.......................................................................................................................15
REFLECTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVES RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
.................................................................................................................................................................. 16
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................16
RECOMMENDATIONS...........................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................18
APPENDICES...........................................................................................................................................20
Questionnaire.........................................................................................................................................20
Research Proposal Form........................................................................................................................21
Research Ethics approval form..............................................................................................................27

TITLE
“To investigate the impact of talent management practices (training & development sessions) on
employee motivation and performance in the context of hospitality sector”.
INTRODUCTION
Talent management refers to a significant practice of business enterprise to motivate
employees in gaining competitive advantage within marketplace. Therefore, employees are vital
asset of company because they perform their task for attaining profits and revenues. To maintain
its effectiveness talent management is crucial for developing healthy culture at working place
(Gupta, 2019) . To complete this research, Hilton Hotel is to be taken that is a multinational
American hospitality company deals globally. To complete this study several chapters are
included on the basis of which valid and reliable conclusion is to be drawn at the end. The
chapters include aims, objectives, literature review, research methodology, data analysis and
findings, recommendations. All these are very effective for conducting research effectively and
effectively.
Aims
“To analyze the influence which practices of talent management specifically training and
development has over the performance and motivation of employees”. A case study on Hilton.
Research objectives
 To develop an understanding relating to talent management practices.
 To examine the various strategies which Hilton can use along with training and
development in order to increase motivation and performance of company.
 To examine the impact of these talent management strategies over the performance of
employees with respect to Hilton.
 To recommend some of the measures to Hilton in effectively using the talent
management practices to improve the performance of the company.
Research questions
1. What is the concept of talent management in the hospitality sector?

2. What are the different types of strategies used for talent management in order to motivate
and improve the performance of the employees?
3. What is the impact of using different talent management strategy over the performance
and level of motivation of the employees?
4. What are some of the recommendation to the company in order to increase the
performance of employees with help of different talent management practice?
Rationale of Research
The main reason of conducting this research is to investigate the practices of talent
management on performance and motivation of employees of an organization. This research
topic is reflected the personal and professional interest of researcher that will develops the skills
and knowledge that contributes in growing the career. Bu conducting this research, researcher
acquired detailed information on talent management to develop the performance and productivity
of organization in marketplace.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Literature review refers to a survey that is used to gather the information for a specific
topic. In this information is to be gathered by using books, articles, journals, scholarly articles
etc. to conduct this research, researcher adopts the use of literature review as a secondary source
of data collection where they collect the information based on research questions.
Theme 1: Concept of talent management in the hospitality sector
According to the viewpoint of “D’Annunzio-Green and Teare, (2018)” Talent
management is the process that is implemented by businesses to identify the talent who impact
positively on performance of organization. Talent management strategically handles the flows of
the organization mission, vision, values and goals that helps employees to understand where they
fit within an organization. The concept of talent management enables workforce to participate in
overall direction of an organization. In terms of strategic perspective, effective talent
management helps workers to feel comfortable on their current job. Talent management is an
effective concept as it develops the clear job descriptions so that an organization will get skilled,
talented and experience employees within company who perform the task effectively and
efficiently.

According to the viewpoint of “Williamson and Harris, (2019)” Talent management
reflects as a full scope of HR Processes that interlinked with developing, motivating, attracting
and retaining high performance employees. It is very essential to attract the number of applicants
who are working with full potential so that business firm will get proficient outcomes in their
survival. Talent management is a term that motivates and increases the performance of
employees so that competitive advantage is to be enjoyed by firm.
Theme 2: Strategies used for talent management in order to motivate and improve the
performance of the employees
According to the viewpoint of “Pant and Venkateswaran, (2019)” there are several
strategies which are used for talent management in order to enhance performance and motivate
employees. The best strategy that is adopted by company is to invest in employees and focus on
hiring employees internally. Due to this strategy employees are motivating towards performing
their task effectively that improves the overall performance of the workers (What is talent
management strategy?. 2021). Another strategy is providing training and development session to
the employees so that skills and knowledge of workers are to be enhanced.
According to the viewpoint of “Reilly, (2018)” the main strategy for motivating and
improving performance of employees is rewarding and recognition as it assist in attracting and
retaining employees for more period of time. In this organization provide reward and recognition
to the employees than they encouraged towards effective working. Due to this the overall
performance of employees gets enhanced.
Theme 3: Impact of using different talent management strategy over the performance and
level of motivation of the employees
As per the viewpoint of “McGuire, Dusoye, Garavan and Alhejji, (2018)” the impact of using
talent management strategy is that it helps organization to encourage employees for attaining
business targets effectively and efficiently. Talent management strategies also influence the
positive working culture that helps in developing performance of workers at working place.
Hence, strategies of talent management positively impact the performance and level of
motivation of employees.

On the other side as per the viewpoint of another author “Jehangir and Khan, (2018)” it is
reflected that using talent management strategies are sometimes reflects as a negative impact
because due to these strategies such as training and development, motivation etc. will create
conflicts and misunderstanding among the workers that will affect their performance negatively.
Due to this employees are not perform their task appropriately that impact profitability and
sustainability of business enterprise.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology refers to specific procedures that are used to identify, select,
analyze, process information related to specific topic. It is very crucial while conducting research
because it allows the readers to critically evaluate a study validity and reliability. It is based on
several topics which are presented below within research onion. To conduct this research
methodology researcher need around 3 to 4 weeks that helps in analyzing the best methods to
conduct the research effectively and efficiently.
Research philosophy
A research is associated with interpretivisim and positivism philosophy. In this
positivism reflects that research should be perform in a systematic manner where interpretivisim
research is based on principle that is used to applied to observing the several activities and
concepts of social world (Burke and Hughes, 2018). In this positivism refers to philosophical
theory that present genuine knowledge that generate from experience of natural phenomena and
their related activities. To conduct this research, researcher select positivism philosophy because
it develops the sensory experience where interpretation is based on reason and logic that provides
effective knowledge. The main reason for selecting this philosophy is that it provides the factual
knowledge by observations and creates trust along with it is based on quantitative method.
Research approaches
There are two types of approach mainly inductive and deductive in which inductive
approach states the observation and theories that tend to propose the research process by
reflecting the outcome of observations (Berger, 2020). In this inductive approach is very
complex in nature because it comprises of patterns, regularities in experience to reach the

conclusion or generate new theory. In this deductive approach refers to one that linked with
positivism philosophy that facilitates better testing and scanning of numeric facts. To conduct
this research researcher adopts the use of deductive approach. The reason of selecting this
approach is that it is based on existing theory and collecting data to test the hypothesis. This
helps in draw a valid and authentic conclusion at the end of research.
Quantitative and qualitative research methods
At the time of conducting the research, there are several choices in front of investigator
so that they gather data based on research topic. Thus it is mainly crucial for researcher to choose
the appropriate tool for representing the valid conclusion at the end (Pandita and Ray, 2018).
There are two methods for conducting research these are quantitative and qualitative and both are
effectual for carry out research. Quantitative data is to gain detailed from respondents on specific
topic that provides information in numeric manner whereas qualitative method is to gather
information in theoretical aspects. But for conducting current research, quantitative method is
used as it helps in gather data in measurable form. It is used to analyze numeric data that
addresses research problem in an effective manner. It helps in reflecting a valid conclusion at the
end of research. To conduct this research questionnaire method is to be used which is associated
with quantitative research.
Primary and secondary research
Primary research refers to a process of collecting and gathering the data, facts and figures
by using interviews, questionnaire, surveys etc. to conduct this research researcher adopts the use
of primary research because for first handed collection of data using questionnaire so that
effective results are to be reflected.
Secondary research refers to a process of collecting data that is already published by
authors or other person in the form of books, articles, scholars etc. to conduct this research,
investigator also select this source as it provide theoretical knowledge on talent management that
helps in providing recommendations at the end of research.
Sampling methods

There are two ways of selecting a sample that is probability and non-probability form.
Probability sampling method is that in which researcher select the respondents on random basis
where non-probability method is one where respondents are select non-random basis (Taylor,
2018). To conduct this research, researcher adopts probability sampling method where they
select the respondents from large population on random basis. The main reason for selecting this
method is to reduce the chances of biasedness. The sample size for conducting this research is 20
who are manager, employees of Hilton Hotel.
Ethical issues and accessibility
It is very essential for researcher to undertake the research in ethical way so that it provides
successful results. In this investigator have access to collect information from primary source
from the manager of company. It will provide authentic results within research activities. This
will effectual in eliminating the legal issues. While collecting data from secondary sources
researcher have proper access to collect data from websites, publication sources as well. This
will reflects the ethical activities while conducting research. Therefore, it is very essential for
researcher to conduct research in ethical manner where investigator should follow ethical
principles like honesty, trust etc. to obtain information effectively which does not harm the
respondents image. These ethical principles help in conducting the research in effective and
systematic manner.

DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATIONS
Questionnaire
Q 1) Are you aware about the concept of Talent management within
hospitality industry?
Frequency
a) Yes 19
b) No 1
Q 2) Are you satisfied with the company talent management practices? Frequency
a) Satisfied 13
b) Dissatisfied 4
c) Neither satisfied and dissatisfied 3
Q 3) How significant talent management strategies are for Hilton in
order to motivate employees?
Frequency
a) Highly significant 10
b) Significant 6
c) Neutral 2
d) Insignificant 2
e) Highly insignificant 0
Q 4) Does talent management strategies effective in improving the
performance of employees within Hilton?
Frequency
a) Yes 16
b) No 4
Q 5) What are the strategies of talent management that are associatedFrequency

with performance of employees?
a) Motivating employees 11
b) Training and development 5
c) Metrics 4
Q 6) Recommend some measures for improving the performance of employees to gain
competitive advantage within Hilton
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Data interpretation
Theme 1: Aware about the concept of Talent management within hospitality industry
Q 1) Are you aware about the concept of Talent management within
hospitality industry?
Frequency
a) Yes 19
b) No 1
Frequency
a) Yes
b) No
Interpretation: From above analysis it is to be interpreting that out of 20 respondents, 19 are
aware about the talent management concept within hospitality industry and 1 respondent are not
highly aware about the concept of talent management.
Theme 2: Satisfied with the company talent management practices
Q 2) Are you satisfied with the company talent management practices? Frequency
a) Satisfied 13
b) Dissatisfied 4
c) Neither satisfied and dissatisfied 3

Frequency
a) Satisfied
b) Dissatisfied
c) Neither satisfied and
dissatisfied
Interpretation: By examine above data, it is to be interpret that 13 respondents out of 20 are
highly satisfied with the company but 4 are not satisfied with the practice of talent management
within an organization. In this 3 are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the practices of talent
management that was implemented in an organization.
Theme 3: Significance of talent management strategies is for Hilton in order to motivate
employees
Q 3) How significant talent management strategies are for Hilton in
order to motivate employees?
Frequency
a) Highly significant 10
b) Significant 6
c) Neutral 2
d) Insignificant 2
e) Highly insignificant 0

Frequency
a) Highly significant
b) Significant
c) Neutral
d) Insignificant
e) Highly insignificant
Interpretation: To analyze the above data it is to be interpreting that out of 20 respondents, 10
respondents believe that strategies related to talent management is highly significant for business
in which 6 are thinks that these strategies are significant for Hilton to motivate the employees.
Further 2 respondents are neutral in context of significance of talent management in Hilton. It is
analyzed that 2 respondents are believes that practices of talent management is insignificant to
motivate employees.
Theme 4: Talent management strategies effective in improving the performance of
employees within Hilton
Q 4) Does talent management strategies effective in improving the
performance of employees within Hilton?
Frequency
a) Yes 16
b) No 4

Frequency
a) Yes
b) No
Interpretation: From above analysis it is to be interpreting those 16 respondents out of 20
thinks that implementing talent management strategies are very effective in improving the
overall performance of employees within Hilton. In this 4 respondents are not believes that talent
management strategies are effective in nature.
Theme 5: Strategies of talent management that are associated with performance of
employees
Q 5) What are the strategies of talent management that are associated
with performance of employees?
Frequency
a) Motivating employees 11
b) Training and development 5
c) Metrics 4

Frequency
a) Motivating employees
b) Training and
development
c) Metrics
Interpretation: From above data, it is interpreted that 11 respondents out of 20 thinks that
motivating employees is the best strategies of talent management to improve the performance of
employees whereas 5 believe that training and development is best one to enhance performance
of employees. In this 4 are in favor of metrics strategies of talent management that is associated
with enhancing performance of employees.
Discuss merits, limitations and pitfalls of approaches to data collection and analysis
From the above research it is to be analyzed that there are several merits and limitation of
approaches to data collection and analysis. to conduct this project quantitative research is
adopted it is beneficial because it provide data in numerical manner that helps researcher to
easily measure outcomes so that valid conclusion is to be drawn at the end of dissertation. This
approach is also includes disadvantage as it does not effective to explain robust in explaining the
complex issue. Further to analyses the data questionnaire is to be adopted that is cost effective
and also done within the set budget along with providing quality data that investigator needs.
Therefore the main disadvantage of using this analysis is that it is more time consuming and
sometimes provide false information from respondents.
Critically evaluate research methodology and processes to business research project to
justify chosen research method and analysis
From the above analysis it is to be critically evaluated that research methodology and
processes are to be choose for this project is based on positivism research methodology that
provides quantitative data in terms of research outcomes as due to this researcher can effectively

present their results and prepare a valid conclusion that easily understand by readers due to this
particular research is helpful. It is essential to effectively implement research methodology
process so that valid and reliable outcome is to be drawn. If it is not implemented properly than it
affects all research outcomes and also researcher cannot prepare appropriate conclusion at the
end.
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
Discussion and communication of research findings
On the current research study a discussion is to be made on the findings of current
research that is crucial to meet the objectives related to concept of talent management practices
in hospitality sector. In this research report investigator gain knowledge on practices and
strategies which are used by company to improve the performance of employees so that
proficient results are enjoyed by an organization. In this several strategies are to be adopted such
as motivating employees, evaluating employee’s performance, training and development
sessions etc. are to be adopted to develops the performance of employees that also retain
employees for longer period of time. Beside this, the discussion also provide effective role of
talent management on developing employees performance by providing training and rewards on
timely basis. This will reflect the best outcomes in terms of organization profitability.
Communicate research outcomes to intended audience
Therefore, to communicate this finding to stakeholders, use of online method such as
social media, e-mails is effective as it presents the smooth flow of information to stakeholders to
fulfill set objectives of current research study (Parish and et.al., 2019). The stakeholders within
this research are employees, managers, clients, business partners, customers of Hilton along with
audiences who are associated with scholars and researchers who have interest on talent
management within hospitality sector topic.
Logically communicate outcomes to intended audience demonstrating how outcomes
meet set research objectives
In terms of communicating the outcomes to the audiences that are different stakeholders
such as customers, employees, managers researchers adopts the use of advanced technology such
as social media, e-mails, telephone message to inform the research outcomes. In this researcher

communicate the use of research methodology that helps in completing the research objectives in
authentic manner. In this they use of questionnaire technique to collect the information for meet
set research objectives. In this investigator provide question template to respondents in which
several questions are included and respondents provide answer to that via mail that question
paper, message etc. that represents the particular research outcome are met successfully.
REFLECTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVES
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Reflection on the research method used to meet the research objectives
I am glad to involve in current research project as it is very knowledgeable and
informative journey for because it enhances my skills and managerial competencies. This
research helps in enhancing my professional career. In this application of using the quantitative
form of research is very effective because it helps in meeting the set objectives by proving
specific and measurable form of data and information on specific topic that is talent
management. In this using questionnaire form along with random sampling helps significantly to
develops my observation and communicating skills. In this I would communicating with number
of participants that provides me the reliable information on the questions which I have to ask via
using questionnaire. It helps in meeting the research objectives effectively and proficiently.
Alternative research methods
The major pitfall that was faced by me during current research is lack of theoretical
knowledge and in depth information. Within this use of qualitative method within research is
an alternative research method. In this application of interview tool of data collection could be
used to effectively gather the information along with theoretical form of study so that better and
reliable conclusion is to be drawn at the end and also helps in taking decisions effectively.
Provide critical reflection and insight that results recommended actions for improvements
and future research consideration
I am happy to involve within this research and involving within this research helps in
examine my overall strength and weaknesses that support in completing the whole research
proficiently. If in future I involved in this kind of research I have to focus on firstly managing the
time so that it should be completed on time and in an effective manner. By conducting this

research helps in developing my knowledge like communication, internet savvy etc. and in future
considerations this particular research assists in completing in on time and in effective manner.
CONCLUSION
As per the above explained data it is concluded that talent management is one the best
approach that is adopted by an organization to improve performance and productivity of the
company. In this company will adopt the several practices of talent management that developed
the employee’s performance and motivating them for gaining profitable results within
marketplace. Further it reflects the strategies of talent management such as motivating
employees, metrics, training and development to encourage workers to present the productive
and attracts customers to gain profitable results. In this data and finding are very helpful to
provides effective understanding related to several aspects of talent management.
Communicate valid research outcomes and make valid justified recommendations
RECOMMENDATIONS
By analyzing above data several points are to be recommended for Hilton that is
presented below:
 For enhancing the employee’s performance, company adopts the performance evaluating
tool for identifying the skills and talents of workforce that helps in assigning task as per
their caliber due to which they are specialized in specific field and perform their task
effectively and efficiently.
 Another recommendation is that manager offers monetary and non- monetary benefits to
their staff members so that they perform the assigned activity effectively that gives
proficient results in organization sustainability (Deeba, 2020).
 Two way communications is to be used to satisfy and encourage employees towards
productive working. This helps in developing strong relations between employees and
also work force of company get better guidance to perform their targets proficiently.

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APPENDICES
Questionnaire
Q 1) Are you aware about the concept of Talent management within hospitality industry?
a) Yes
b) No
Q 2) Are you satisfied with the company talent management practices?
a) Satisfied
b) Dissatisfied
c) Neither satisfied and dissatisfied
Q 3) How significant talent management strategies are for Hilton in order to motivate
employees?
a) Highly significant
b) Significant
c) Neutral
d) Insignificant
e) Highly insignificant
Q 4) Does talent management strategies effective in improving the performance of
employees within Hilton?
a) Yes
b) No
Q 5) What are the strategies of talent management that are associated with performance of
employees?
a) Motivating employees
b) Training and development
c) Metrics

Q 6) Recommend some measures for improving the performance of employees to gain
competitive advantage within Hilton
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Research Proposal Form
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Topic- To investigate the impact of talent management practices (training & development
sessions) on employee motivation and performance in the context of hospitality sector.
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer? What do you want to learn
how to do? What do you want to find out?):
Aim
To analyse the influence which practices of talent management specifically training and
development has over the performance and motivation of employees. A study on Hilton.
Objectives
 To develop an understanding relating to talent management practices.
 To examine the various strategies which Hilton can use along with training and
development in order to increase motivation and performance of company.
 To examine the impact of these talent management strategies over the performance of
employees with respect to Hilton.
 To recommend some of the measures to Hilton in effectively using the talent
management practices to improve the performance of the company.
Research questions

5. What is the concept of talent management in the hospitality sector?
6. What are the different types of strategies used for talent management in order to motivate
and improve the performance of the employees?
7. What is the impact of using different talent management strategy over the performance
and level of motivation of the employees?
8. What are some of the recommendation to the company in order to increase the
performance of employees with help of different talent management practice?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project (e.g. links to other subjects you are studying, personal interest,
future plans, knowledge/skills you want to improve, why the topic is important):
In the current modern world there are many companies which are facing issues relating to
management of the employees within the company. The major reason for this is that there are
many different companies and they try to attract the employees of other companies and because
of this here is large requirement of the companies to effectively make the use of the talent
management strategies. Thus, when the research will be conducted over the talent management
strategies then this will assist the company in using these strategies and motivate the employees
in order to improve their performance. Further another major reason for using talent management
strategies as the research topic is the personal and academic interest of the researcher within the
topic of the research.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or hypothesis:
Theme 1- Developing understanding related to talent management practices.
In the views of Kaliannan, Abraham and Ponnusamy (2016) in this highly competitive
working environment there is a great requirement for company in order to attract the employees
and try to retain the employees within the company for a longer period of time. This is very
important because of the reason that when the company will make the effective use of the talent

management then this will motivate the employees in performing their task in effective and
efficient manner.
On the other side Mohammed, Hafeez-Baig and Gururajan (2018) argues that the talent
management practices involve the process through which company tries to attract the employees
to work within the company and help them in their personal growth. This is a good way of
attracting the employees within the company and this will motivate the employees to stay
connected with the company for a longer period of time. Thus, when the company employs
effective talent management strategies then this motivates the employees to work in much better
manner as they develop a feeling that company is working for betterment of the company.
Theme 2- Different strategies used for talent management with the intention of the motivating
employees to improve the performance of the company.
In the views of Rodriguez and Walters (2017) there a many different types of talent
management strategies which assist the company in getting a better employees and retaining
them for a longer period of time. The major strategy used for the talent management is the
providing or training and development sessions. This is the major strategy as when the company
will provide the facility of training then this will assist the company in increasing the
performance of the employees. The major reason for this is that with help of the providing time
to time training this will motivate the employees as company is taking care of the employees and
this will motivate then in doing work in more effective manner.
In contrast to this Maleka and et.al., (2020) argues that the another major strategy for
managing talent is the reward and recognition as this will assist the company in attracting and
retaining the employees for a longer period of time. This is particularly because of the reason
that when the company provides for effective rewards then this will motivate the employees and
they will perform in much better and effective manner. Further when the employees know that if
they will get more rewards if they will perform in much better way than this will motivate them
to work in more proper and organized manner.
Theme 3- Impact of using different types of talent management strategies over the
performance of the employees.

With the views of Yusoff and et.al., (2020) the major impact of using the different talent
management strategies is that this motivates the employees to work in much better and effective
manner. This is particularly because of the reason that when the employees will be provided with
the benefits then this will motivate the employees to work in much better and effective manner.
Thus, this creates a positive impact over the working and performance of the employees.
On the flip side van Zyl, Mathafena and Ras (2017) argues that many a time these talent
management strategies can be wrong because this creates an issues among the employees. The
major reason for this is that when the company provides reward and recognition on the basis of
capability of the employees and this creates issues among those employees who are not doing
good.
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the research project (e.g research,
development and analysis of ideas, writing, data collection, numerical
analysis, tutor meetings, production of final outcome, evaluation, writing
the report):
Enclosed in end of proposal
How long this will
take:
Milestone one: _________________
Target date (set by tutor): _________________
Milestone two: _________________

Target date (set by tutor): __________________
Gantt Chart
Section Five: Research approach and methodologies
What type of research approach and methodologies are you likely to use and why? What your
areas of research will cover:
Research type- this is the most important to decide for which method the researcher will
undertake in order to complete the research either qualitative or quantitative. Thus, for
completing the research on different talent management strategies the research will make the use
of the qualitative research type as this will assist the researcher in developing better and deeper
knowledge relating to talent management strategies (Van de Ven and Poole, 2017).
Research approach- for the completion of the current research, scholar will make the use
of the inductive approach out of the two inductive and deductive. The major reason for the
selection of this method is that this approach is related with the formulation of aim and
objectives and then completes the whole study on basis of that.
Research philosophy- this involves the two different types of philosophies that is
interpretivism and positivism. Hence, for the successful completion of research over impact of
talent management strategies the researcher will make use of the interpretivism as the
philosophy. The major reason underlying this fact is that this is more suitable with the qualitative
type of research as this does not make use of factual data.
Data collection- this is the most essential thing for the completion of the research as if the
data will not be collected in effective manner then there will not be any base for the research.
Thus, for this the researcher will make the effective use of combination of the primary and
secondary sources of data. For the primary source the data will be collected with help of
questionnaire and for secondary source the use of different books and journal and article and

other published sources will be used in gathering the data (Park and Park, 2016).
Sampling- under this the researcher selects some of the sample to conduct the research as
it is not possible to do the research on whole of the population. Thus with help of the random
sampling method the researcher will collected data by providing questionnaire to 20 respondents
from Hilton.
Data analysis- after the collection of the data, the analysis of the data is the most
important thing as for successful completion of the research is to analyse the data in effective and
efficient manner. This is particularly because of the reason that when the data will not be
analysed in effective manner then there will not be any meaning attached to it. Thus, for this
research will make use of the thematic analysis wherein they will undertake the use of themes,
charts and tables for interpreting the collected data.
Ethical consideration- this is the most important thing for the researcher to effectively
undertake as if there will not be any ethical working then the research will not bring out the
intended outcome. Thus, for this the most important thing is to keep all the data of respondent
safe and secure so that it cannot be misused. Further the researcher must have a written ethical
approval from being signed by the respondent before taking their personal information.
Comments and agreement from tutor
Comments (optional):
I confirm that the project is not work which has been or will be submitted for another
qualification and is appropriate.
Agreed: ________________ (name)_______________ Date ______________
Comments and agreement form project proposal checker( IV sampling)
Comments (Optional):

I confirm that the project is appropriate.
Agreed /Disagree: (Name of the IV) Date
Research Ethics approval form
Section 1: Basic details:
Project title:
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
College Name:
Intended research start date:

Intended research end date:
Section 2 Project summary
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as a part of your project:
 Interviews Yes No
 Questionnaires Yes No
 Observations Yes No
 Use of personal records Yes No
 Data Analysis Yes No
 Action Research Yes No
 Focus Groups Yes No
 Others (Please specify) :
Section 3: Participants
Please answer the following questions, giving full details where necessary.
Will your research involve human participants?
yes
Who are the participants? Tick all that apply:
Ages 12-16: Young people aged: 17-18 Adults:
How will participants be recruited (identified an approached)?
With help of email and direct communication

Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what you are doing:
Direct communication and
How will you obtain consent from participants? Will this be written? How will it be made clear
to participants that they may withdraw consent to participate at any time?
By signing the ethical approval form
Studies involving questionnaires: will participants be given the option of omitting questions that
do not wish to answer?
Yes No
If no please explain why below and ensure that you cover any ethical issues arising from this
Studies involving observation: Confirm whether participants will be asked for their informed
consent to be observed.
Yes No
Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e give them a brief explanation of
the study)?
Yes No

Will participants be given information about the findings of your study?(This could be a brief
summary of your findings in general)
Yes No
Section 4: Data Storage and Security
Confirm that all personal data will be stored and processed in compliance with the Data
Protection Act (1998)
Yes No
Who will have access to the data and personal information?
Only the researcher
During the research:
Where will the data be stored?
Within computer storage and pen drive
Will mobile devices such as USB storage and laptops be used
Yes No
If Yes, please provide further details: in mobile back up will be saved
After the research:

Where will the data be stored?
How long will the data and records be kept for and in what format?
Till the research is not completed
Will data be kept for use by other researchers? Yes No
Section 5: Ethical Issues
Are there any particular features of your proposed work, which may raise ethical concerns? If so,
please outline how you will deal with these:
It is important that you demonstrate your awareness of potential risks that may arise because of
your research. Please consider/address all issues that may apply. Ethical concerns may include,
but are not limited to the following:
 Informed consent.
 Potentially vulnerable participants.
 Sensitive topics
 Risk to participants and /or researchers
 Confidentiality/anonymity
 Disclosures/ limits to confidentiality
 Data storage and security, both during and after the research (including transfer, sharing,
encryption, protection).
 Reporting
 Dissemination and use of your findings.
Section 6: Declaration
I have read, understood and will abide by the institution’s Research and Ethics Policy: Yes
No
I have discussed the ethical issues relating to my research with my Unit Tutor:

Yes No
I confirm that to the best of my knowledge:
The above information is correct, and this is a full description of the ethical issues that may arise
in the course of my research
Name: Date:
Please submit your completed form to your supervisor and also attach to the Research Proposal
when submitting to Turnitin.