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1. A brief description the research project and issue under investigation and an analysis of best practice in relation to this issue. (2.1 and 2.2).

I am going to investigate the reasons why people are leaving the business within their first 12 months of employment , in a 2 year period we hired 32 people of those 32 , 19 left within their first 12 months which is 59% leaving us with only a 41% retention rate which is extremely concerning for the business
High employee turnover, where workers frequently leave and must be replaced, leads to increased spending on recruitment and training and can indicate management problems. Employees often have good reasons for moving on but if too many are leaving an organisation, can be very disruptive. …show more content…

I will Use secondary research to give me a wider understanding and hopefully trends within the subject, staff turnover is an ongoing issue for most if not all organisations so there should be readily available information available for me to use in my study.
The Internet will be used for my study, I will use it to find and assess information on the CIPD and ACAS websites as well as other HR magazine and publication articles to gain an industry viewpoint on issues effecting staff turnover I can then compare and contrast these findings with my own internal data and study of our company.

4. The key methods of collecting primary data (1.1). Justify the choice and application of data collection methods and research instruments to explore an area under investigation (2.3). Evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses (2.4)

5. An outline of how you might present the findings in order to persuade stakeholders to act on the results. (4.2) Explain the importance of using an appropriate mix of diagrammatic and narrative formats (4.3)
Knowing both of my directors well enough I will need to communicate my findings to each separately – my sales director is very time conscious and doesn’t particular respond well to diagrammatic information in particular I know he will not sit through a Power point

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