Assignment task:
Topic: Staffing shortages in Hotel
1. Provide the reader with a description/ background of the topic that is being researched. Give a contextual backdrop to why this is an important issue to be addressed (e.g., What are competitors doing? What is the marketplace currently doing or headed? What happens if this isn't addressed?).
2. A brief discussion of the specific topic that will be investigated and addressed and why it is important. (e.g., What is the problem? Why is this problem worth my attention? How important, influential, or popular is this problem? Would research findings lead to some useful change in best practice?) For example, if a study is researching management stress in a hotel, why is this needed? Is there turnover, Low morale? Be clear about the problem statement and explain why the study is needed.
3. A discussion of how you went about approaching and solving the problem or research project. In other words, how did you collect the data you needed to analyze for the project? This section, for example, should included details on what type of survey you did including where you found the survey and/or how you collected data, etc. Tables, charts and figures are strongly encouraged to demonstrate your data.
4. A presentation of the factual (truth and facts - not opinion) information you found regarding the problem to be solved or the research project. What were the strategic alternatives that might have been used to solve the problem or research project? What alternative(s) did you decide to use and why?
5. Given your findings, what are your specific recommendations to solve the problems or achieve the objective of the research study?