Challenges of Staff Retention in Asian Food Industry

Research Project Talent
Management in Service
Industry

Acknowledgement
On the very outset of the research, I would like to extend my sincere and heartfelt obligation
towards all the person who helped me in this endeavour. I am ineffably thank to my HOD who
provide me this opportunity to accomplish the assignment.
I would also extend my thankful and pay my gratitude towards my faculty for their valuable
guidance and support.
I also acknowledge with the deep sense of reverence, my gratitude towards my parents and
member of my family who always supported me morally and economically.
Last but not the least, I would like to thank my friends who directly and indirectly helps me to
complete this project.
Thanking you.

Table of Contents
Research Proposal............................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction........................................................................................................................1
2.Background..........................................................................................................................1
Rationale.................................................................................................................................1
3.Research question................................................................................................................2
4. Research Methodology .....................................................................................................2
5. Data collection method ......................................................................................................3
6. Sampling strategy...............................................................................................................3
7. Sample size.........................................................................................................................3
8. Ethical considerations ........................................................................................................3
Literature review....................................................................................................................4
Research methodology...........................................................................................................7
Data Analysis..........................................................................................................................9
Reflection.............................................................................................................................16
Conclusion............................................................................................................................16
Recommendations................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
Appendix........................................................................................................................................20

Topic: An investigation into the challenged of staff retention in the Asian Food Industry: A
case study on Maharaja London Ltd.
Research Proposal
1. Introduction
Talent Management touches all the key areas of HR such that from hiring to employees
on boarding and from the performance management to retention. Moreover, the main purpose of
talent management is to increase the performance and retaining employees as well. On the other
hand, talent management is an important aspect of broader human capital management which
actually encompasses hiring the right people and also manage them in effective manner by
developing strong management policies by HR (Ramachandra, 2019). The current report is
based upon to describe the challenges faced by Asian Food industry in order to retaining the
staff. Further, the research study uses different books, articles and journals for conducting
secondary research and also uses primary method that helps to identify the views of different
respondents who assist researcher to meet the defined aim and objectives.
2.Background
There has been many studies and investigation are carried out. For example, competitive
era, every company's HR develop new strategy that helps to enhance their employee performance
in better manner. For that, they also recruit the talented employees who actually perform the best
and assist company to meet their defined aim and objectives (Ansari, 2019). The current study
provides deep research related to impact of talent management with regards to staff retention in
Asian food industry in which researcher provide in depth knowledge related to importance of
talent management. Through this report, different strategies are suggested which are used by the
companies in order to retain employees who may help to meet the defined aim and objectives of
the firm as well.
Rationale
The rationale behind choosing the current topic is such that it helps to enhance current
knowledge related to talent management for HR in Asian industry. Moreover, by study on this
particular topic will helps the researcher to learn solutions which are used by the HR in order to
retaining staff. Such that by recruiting and implementing policies within the food industry will
help to meet the success criteria of a business and also, establishing a high performance
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workforce as well. The current study also describe the importance of talent in the success of a
business and also retaining staff for better success.
The aim of this study is to determine the challenges faced by talent management on the in Asian
Food industry.
3.Research question
• What are the challenges faced by HR of food industry during talent management?
Research objectives:
 To identify the challenges face by HR at the time of staff retention.
 To determine the solutions to minimize the issue faced by the company while retaining
staff.
4. Research Methodology
Quantitative research: It is define as a systematic investigation which is used to collect
the quantifiable data through statistical data and computational techniques. This is used used to
quantify attitudes, opinions, behaviors, and other defined variable, also, used to verbalise results
from a larger sample population
Pros: The results are clear and are harder to misinterpret. The survey can also be easily repeated
and you can reliably track changes over time (Witell, Holmlund and Gustafsson, 2020).
Cons: Quantitative experiments do not take place in natural settings. It also requires a large
sample to deliver reliable results (Quinlan and et.al., 2019). Also, easy to analyse, due to numeric
responses, easy to apply statistical analysis
Qualitative research : It is data collection methods which are much more structured as
compared to quantitative. Thus the common methods are online surveys, face-to-face surveys,
online polls, Systematic observations
Pros: This method assist to determine the changing attitude within a target group i.e. consumer
of a product and service. It also provide the detail and depth analysis to researcher.
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Cons : It did not present statistical representation of the data and that is why sometimes it leads
to delay the results.
Among all the above mention types, researcher will chooses qualitative research method
because it will assist to analyse the results which helps to determine the challenges faced by HR
in food industry.
5. Data collection method
Data collection is the method of collecting data and measuring information on variable in
order to answer the question. There are different methods for the data collection such that survey,
interviews, focus groups or secondary. For this research report, researcher will use questionnaire
under survey method i.e. qualitative method that will help to determine the view of selected
sample and this in turn assist to determine the overall challenges faced by HR department with
regards to talent management in Asian food industry.
6. Sampling strategy
For this research, researcher used simple random sampling method which is used when
researcher have to selected the sample from the range of people. Thus, under this method, each
individual is chosen entirely by chance and each member of a population has also an equal
chance to be involve within a sample.
7. Sample size
For the current research, researcher will chooses 30 HR manager of the Asian food
industry as a sample size that assist to determine their views with regards to topic.
8. Ethical considerations
It is one of the most important element of the research methodology section in which
researcher have to take full consent of the sample prior to the study. Further, researcher should
make adequate level of confidentiality of the research data and make sure that it should not be
misused by the third party. Moreover, any type of miscommunication and misleading the
information should be avoided so that it will lead to generate best outcomes and also assist to
answer all question of research as well. In addition to this, researcher should also make sure that
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