Impact of Staff Turnover on Profitability of Retail Industry: A Study on Unilever

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Aim..............................................................................................................................................3
Objective .....................................................................................................................................3
Research questions.......................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................4
Research type...............................................................................................................................4
Research approach.......................................................................................................................4
Research philosophy....................................................................................................................4
Research design...........................................................................................................................5
Data collection- ...........................................................................................................................5
Sampling- ....................................................................................................................................5
Ethical consideration....................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
MAIN BODY
Aim
To analyse the impact of the staff turnover as business issue on profitability of the retail industry.
“A study on Unilever”
Objective
 To understand the concept of staff turnover
 To analyse the factors that contribute towards staff turnover within retail industry.
 To assess the relationship between staff turnover and profitability of Unilever.
 To suggest the best strategies to Unilever in order to improve staff turnover issue
Research questions
 What is the meaning of staff turnover?
 Which factors contribute towards the staff turnover in the retail industry?
 What is the relation between the staff turnover and the profitability of Unilever?
 Which strategies can be implemented to improve the issue of staff turnover in Unilever?
LITERATURE REVIEW
As per Halter, M. and et.al., 2017 Employee turnover is measurement of the number of the
employees who generally leave a company during specified time period. While a company
generally measures total numbers of the employees who leave their job. Employee turnover is
generally outlined as numbers of employees who leave an organization, quit an organization or
replace by new employees. In simple words' employee turnover is loss the talent in employees
over time. This phenomenon may certain negative impact on an organization. There are four
types of employee turnover such as involuntary turnover, desirable turnover, voluntary turnover
as well as undesirable turnover.
According to Buluş. Atan. and Sarıkaya., 2017 The factors that generally affect employee
turnover intention are lack of communication, job satisfaction, and many more that affect the
employees. If the employees are not satisfied with their job then it increases the employee
turnover ration. The another factor that affect employees is communication, if there is lack of
communication then it gives negative impact on the company as well as other employees. The