Women's Role and Position in Hospitality Industry PDF

Research proposal
TOPIC:"A study to explore the main barriers to women taking up management positions in
the hospitality industry in the UK

Contents
TOPIC:"A study to explore the main barriers to women taking up management
positions in the hospitality industry in the UK" A case study on Premier Inn.”...........3
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 3
Research Objectives and Research Question(s)......................................................4
Literature Review ................................................................................................... 5
Methodology ........................................................................................................... 7
Access to Data and Research Ethics........................................................................9
Limitations............................................................................................................. 10
REFERENCES............................................................................................................. 12

TOPIC:"A study to explore the main barriers to women taking up management positions
in the hospitality industry in the UK" A case study on Premier Inn.”
INTRODUCTION
The hospitality industry is one of the leading sectors in the United Kingdom, which
provides a variety of products and services to fulfill customer needs. But in this industry, women
are facing a number of problems in terms of barriers which prevent them taking up management
positions. These problems include not being able to work late nights, resentment from male
employees who do not want females as their superiors, lack of support from their families and
many more (Powell, 2018). Due to these challenges, female workers not able to achieve their
dream as well as succession in real world. So, in order to avoid this type of situation it is
necessary for organization to understand about women empowerment. It refers to process
according to which women generally recreate as well as build themselves so that they achieve
their objective and goal.
The respective report is based on challenges which are faced by female staffs while
getting management position at workplace and for this organization taken is Premier Inn. It is a
subsidiary branch of Whitbread which is conducting its business in hospitality industry. The
respect hotel is founded in year 1987 by Whitbread and it’s headquartered is situated at
Dunstable, United Kingdom. It offers its products as well as services globally. Topics which are
included in this research are issues which female employees face in order to get management
position as well as it will also include limitations which are faced during conducting respective
research. Along with this it will also include research aim and objective in order to conduct
research on respective topic as well as it explain about methods which help researcher in
collecting data about issues faced by female employees at Premier Inn in order to get
management position.
Some of the major issues which female employees face are they are not able to work late
night because of unsafe environment and society restriction. Along with this at some place’s
management does not consider female employees as much willing and capable that they may
handle management position in effective and efficient manner. The respective topic is selected

for this research because it is very essential to know that what are challenges which hinder
female employees to achieve their goals so that everyone know about it and try to remove issues.
By conducting this research project manager able to know about issues which help them
in developing strategies as well as plans that leads to women empowerment at workplace.
Through developing and understanding about women empowerment people will able to support
female employees of Premier Inn which are facing various kinds of issues in attaining
management position. Through women empower project manager also able to promote as well as
support female employees so that they achieve their goal as well as target in real life. Such as in
Premier Inn female’s employees are facing various challenges such as they are not allowing to
work late night, family not support female employees to work in hotel and so on. (Acker, 2012).
So, by conducting this research, project manager able to develop awareness about women
empowerment at respective place so that female staffs should treated equally and properly.
Aim refers to a work or task which describe about overall purpose of conducting research
or any project. It is essential for a project manager or researcher that they develop aim that must
be clear as well as concisely defined to other peoples which are connected to research (Sparrow
and Cooper, 2012). While conducting research it is necessary for research to develop research
aim so that they easily communicate its purpose and accomplish their objective effectively and
appropriately. In context to conduct respective research, the aim developed by research is given
below: -
“To identify the challenges faced by female employees in getting the management
position at organization”. A case study on Premier Inn.
Research Objectives and Research Question(s)
Research Objectives: Research has an initial objective of extending the knowledge of
human beings, environment and natural phenomenon to others (Kincheloe, 2018). Research
objective which developed by respective research researcher on the topic of issues which are
faced by female employees while attaining management position at in Premier Inn are given
below: -
 To determine the role of female employees at top management position in respective
hotel.