Refining Your Management Research Problem: HR in Qatar F&B Industry

This assignment focuses on refining a management research problem concerning HR best practices and their influence on employee retention within Qatar's food and beverage industry, particularly in casual dining restaurants. The research aims to identify the primary reasons for employee turnover and determine the most effective HR practices to mitigate this issue. The objectives include pinpointing the top five reasons for employee turnover, examining the relationship between employee retention and organizational profitability, and investigating the best HR practices for employee retention in the Qatar market. The methodology includes both primary data collection through questionnaires administered to F&B employees and secondary data collection from Qatar statistics, research papers, and peer-reviewed articles. The assignment also suggests exploring existing literature to identify factors influencing employee retention and HR practices that can enhance it, referencing articles on employee retention, turnover intentions, leadership styles, and organizational profitability. The research intends to provide insights into the practical application of HR strategies within the F&B sector to improve employee retention and organizational outcomes.

Running heading: REFINING YOUR MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PROBLEM
Refining Your Management Research Problem
Research topic: How the HR best practices can influence the retention of the employees in the
Food & beverage industry in the State of Qatar
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1.0 Research Topic
The topic of the research is “How the HR best practices can influence the retention of the
employees in the Food & beverage industry in the State of Qatar”. This research aims for finding
the main reason for the employee turnover and then identifies which HR practices will be
suitable for overcoming the problem of employee turnover in casual dining restaurants in Qatar.
1.1 Research Objectives
 To find topmost five reasons of the employee turnover in Casual dining restaurants in
Qatar Market
 To identify the balance between retention of the employee and organizational
profitability in Food and Beverage Industry
 To investigate about the best HR practices in Casual dining restaurants for employee
retention in Qatar Market
2.0 Suggestions on Refining the Topic
This research will aim to investigate the topmost five practices that will help the casual
dining restaurants in Qatar to retain their employees. This research will also demonstrate the
relationship of the employee retention with the organizational profitability. HR practices thus
should be developed in a way so that it can retain the employee effectively and also attain
financial benefits of the casual dining restaurants.
3.0 Suggestion on Search the Research Literature
In order to find appropriate sources to develop literature review, firstly the issues in
retaining the employees in the casual dining will be identified. This research will be followed by

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the detail of on which factors employee stay in the casual dining restaurants. In this case, the
research article developed by Nasyira, Othman and Ghazali (2014) will be considered to identify
the factors based on which an employee retain in restaurants. Details will also be considered
through the peer journal articles like the one developed by Kumar, Ramendran and Yacob (2012)
on turnover intention in fast food industry. Following this, research articles on human resource
management practices for retaining employees and the factors of HR practices, which will help
the organization to retain their employee, will be accomplished. Peer article developed by Chen
and Wu (2017) is based on the leadership style of the HR which is necessary to retain the
employees. Lastly, the attainment of the profitability of the casual dining restaurant with
employee turnover will be highlighted through peer reviewed article developed by Glebbeek and
Bax (2004).
4.0 Proposed Research Methodologies
This research will focus both on the primary and secondary data collection method. The
primary data will be collected from the employees of Food and Beverages industry, who works
in casual dining restaurants. A questionnaire method will be conducted based on the reason of
their employee turnover from these employees. The sample size for the employees will be 100.
In addition to that, Qatar statistics on employee turnover in F&B Industry and the trends
followed in the food and beverage organization will be collected through secondary data
collection method. Moreover, the best HR practices in the hospitality industry and food and
beverages industry will be evaluated through secondary data collection through research papers
and peer journal articles.

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5.0 Reference List
Ardent Advisory., 2018. The GCC F&B Sector An Enticing Opportunity April 2017. [online]
Available at: http://www.ardentadvisory.com/files/GCC-FNB-Sector-Report.pdf [Accessed 19
Jun 2018].
Chen, T.J. and Wu, C.M., 2017. Improving the turnover intention of tourist hotel employees:
Transformational leadership, leader-member exchange, and psychological contract
breach. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 29(7), pp.1914-1936.
Glebbeek, A.C. and Bax, E.H., 2004. Is high employee turnover really harmful? An empirical
test using company records. Academy of Management Journal, 47(2), pp.277-286.
Kumar, R., Ramendran, C. and Yacob, P., 2012. A study on turnover intention in fast food
industry: Employees' fit to the organizational culture and the important of their
commitment. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2(5),
p.9.
Nasyira, M.N., Othman, M. and Ghazali, H., 2014. Predictors of intention to stay for employees
of casual dining restaurant in Klang Valley area. International Food Research Journal, 21(3).
Santhanam, N., Dyaram, L. and Ziegler, H., 2017. Impact of human resource management
practices on employee turnover intentions: Moderating role of psychological contract
breach. Journal of Indian Business Research, 9(3), pp.212-228.