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Date: 07th June 2021 Date:
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OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership (RQF)
Advanced Business Research Methods (J/616/2726)
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Student
Nadhiya Pushkaran
1. INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................6
1.1 Research Background...................................................................................................6
1.2 Research Problem.........................................................................................................6
1.3 Research Objectives.....................................................................................................7
1.3.1 Specific Research Objectives................................................................................7
1.3.2 Recommendations.................................................................................................7
1.4 Research Questions......................................................................................................7
1.5 Significance of Research..............................................................................................8
2. LITERATURE REVIEW......................................................................................................8
2.1 Introduction..................................................................................................................8
2.2 Remuneration Package.................................................................................................9
2.3 Career Growth..............................................................................................................9
2.4 Work Environment.....................................................................................................10
2.5 Employee Loyalty......................................................................................................11
2.6 Conclusion..................................................................................................................12
2.7 Conceptual Framework..............................................................................................12
2.8 Hypothesis..................................................................................................................13
3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY........................................................................................13
3.1 Research Philosophy, Approach, Strategy, Choice and Time Horizon.....................13
3.2 Data Source and Collection........................................................................................13
3.3 Data Sampling............................................................................................................14
3.4 Data Collection Instrument........................................................................................14
3.5 Operationalization......................................................................................................14
3.6 Data Analysis.............................................................................................................15
3.7 Reliability...................................................................................................................15
3.8 Data access.................................................................................................................15
3.9 Validity.......................................................................................................................15
3.10 Generalizability......................................................................................................16
3.11 Ethical Consideration.............................................................................................16
3.12 Delimitation............................................................................................................16
4. APPENDICES.....................................................................................................................17
4.1 Research Questionnaire..............................................................................................17
4.2 Time Frame................................................................................................................19
4.3 Reference....................................................................................................................19
1. INTRODUCTION
According to the strategic human resource aspect, human resource is considered as the
most important asset of an organization. The human resource is the employees that a
company has. Employee retention is a vital phenomenon in today’s business
environment and it has become a vital issue and challenge to all the organizations
nowadays. The number of workers leaving the organizations is more than workers
joining the organization. The war of talent will start in the near future because of the
lack of labour (Holland et.al 2007). As per above statement by Holland retaining
talented workers is very important to the organization but it is a challenge due to lack
of labour. This is a exact interest for Insurance Sector organizations too. Therefore it is
important to recognize how to avoid future employee losses successfully (Samuel and
Chipunza 2009)
There are various studies that has been conducted in measuring the factors influencing
employees’ loyalty towards the association in countries like Vietnam, India,
Bangladesh, Iran, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. There are studies that has been
conducted to measure the relationship between certain factors and worker loyalty in
various industries. There are researches conducted in Sri Lanka on employees’ loyalty
that affects performance and job contentment. And a particular research that has been
conducted under the name of “An Investigation of the worker Satisfaction and
Organizational Commitment on worker Job Retention in Selected Insurance
Companies in Sri Lanka. But there is no research done in the Insurance Companies in
Colombo Sri Lanka to identify the factors influencing Employees’ loyalty towards
organization. Employees of insurance company has been chosen to conduct this
research since the researcher was an employee and the researcher is interested to
identify the factors that will influence the loyalty of them towards the organization.
Insurance Companies in Colombo are chosen because, the employee turnover rate in
Insurance Companies are high also the researcher has somewhat access to those
professionals and data collection would be much easier.
1.3 Research Objectives
The main investigate objectives to identify which factors affect loyalty of workers
which leads good workers to leave the Organization and to help the management to
take necessary corrective action to mitigate those factors. Identify the relationship
between and Employee loyalty.
1.3.2 Recommendations
2. To be the aid to the other researchers to study the subject more in depth and
students to have a basic understanding towards loyalty.
This study will help to address the gap in the literature in insurance companies in Sri
Lanka. Findings of this study will help to identify whether there is a relationship
between the selected factors and loyalty of Employees towards organization. Also it
will identify which factor affects the most the loyalty of Employee, therefore
Insurance Companies can take necessary corrective actions to prevent them. in
addition other organizations will also benefit from the results of this research to
evaluate the factors that affect workers and what their level of loyalty is to the
organization, thus solving the problems and drawbacks of their strategies to satisfy and
retain the employees. Finally, this research helps to bridge the gap in Human Resource
Management literature about the relationship between worker job satisfaction and
organizational commitment on employee retention in insurance industry.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
This chapter carries out a comprehensive review of the factors that influence the
employee loyalty towards the organization. The review will act as one of the vital
prerequisites for conducting the structural research. A detailed review of the prior
research in the related fields not only assists in identifying the research gaps, but also
helps in formulating the hypotheses and identifying the independent variables related
to them.
Career growth is an identification and motivation to the employees who perform well
in the organization. According to Allen & Tuselman (2009) another way for
organisations to encourage loyalty in their workers is through offering prospective
careers such as promotions in the near future. In their research, Allen and Tüselman
(2009) found that a worker who feel dissatisfied with their current situation could still
remain loyal to their company if there are opportunities for them to be promoted.
Creating a proper career path through training and developing employees to reach that
path is one of the responsibilities of the employer, performers must be identified and
recognized through performance appraisal in order to retain them in the organization.
Apparently, lack of career growth and opportunities for promotion were key aspects
associated with employee turnover (Ineson&Berechet, 2011), indicating poor
employee loyalty. Abdullah et al. (2009) confirmed that opportunity for career growth
has increased the tendency of employees to become loyal to the organization. It
implies that the employees feel they have future endeavour with the organization.
Therefore, career growth is seen as an important determinant in assessing employee
loyalty.
2.6 Conclusion
From the above research reviews the authors from their studies says that there are
certain factors positively associated with employee loyalty. The factors are
remuneration package, career growth and Work environment. From the articles it is
concluded that “Employee loyalty cannot be taken for granted it must be frosted and
cultivated”.
Working Environment
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2.8 Hypothesis
3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
As Johnson and Clark (2006) note, as business and management researchers we need
to be aware of the theoretical commitments we make through our choice of investigate
strategy since this has important impact not only on what we do but we understand
what it is we are investigating. Therefore, this study is positivism as the researcher will
be trying to find the answer by the philosophical stance of the natural science by
Survey Strategy using questionnaires. Approach of the research will be deductive and
methodological will be Mono method quantitative. This research will be a descriptive
research, because the researcher will be collecting data of employees to understand
their profiles and the factors influencing loyalty towards the organization. The
research will be cross-sectional, because we recognise that most research projects
undertaken for academic courses are necessarily time constrained (Bryman, 2012).
Sample for this study is all the employees in the Insurance Companies in Colombo,
data will be collected by a structured questionnaire with the topic of ‘Factors
Influencing Loyalty of the employees’ towards Organizations’. Both online survey
through survey monkey and hard copies will be circulated for those who are unable to
do it through online. There are 13 structured questions under three independent
variables that is remuneration package, career growth, Work Environment.
3.3 Data Sampling
To ensure the reliability and the validity of the data collection, the questions will be
structured in a simple and understandable manner – using Likert Scale. To check the
consistency of the questionnaires it will be given twice to 4 people selected from the
sample with an interval of 4 days to see the reliability of the questionnaire and further
if needed, questionnaire will be refined and modified accordingly.
3.5 Operationalization
Salary Q2
Remuneration package
influencing Employee Commission Q3
loyalty towards the Remuneration
organization limited to Package
insurance Companies Bonus Q4
in Colombo
Allowance Q5
Promotion Q6
Career growth
influencing Employee Training &
Q7
loyalty towards the Development
Career Growth
organization limited to
Rewards & Recognition Q8
insurance Companies
in Colombo
Performance appraisal Q9
Work Environment
Work Environment Organization Culture Q10
influencing Employee
Leadership &
Q11
loyalty towards the Management
organization limited to
Working condition Q12
insurance Companies
in Colombo
Company Policy Q13
Data collected will be brief in the data sheet and average for each variable will be
formulated through SPSS software and hypothesis will be tested using correlation
analysis.
3.7 Reliability
The study will be conducted at a selected organization. However, the challenges being
identified and factors being assessed are common for employees. Respondents will be
provided the assurance on confidential use of the provided information only for the
stated purpose. If required, participants will be given the opportunity to provide
feedback through hard copies that does not disclose their identification.
Researcher will be collecting lists of employees with their email addresses from each
insurance companies through the help of the HR Managers of the organization, then
Close ended questionnaires will be provided to the employees who are selected
randomly from the provided list. Surveys online link will be emailed to employees
who are accessible.
3.9 Validity
The validity of the data collection selecting relevant content of questionnaires
discussed with supervisor. And valid sample would be selected relevant to the research
objectives and valid methodology has to be chosen to analyse the data.
3.10 Generalizability
While the research cannot be conducted to the whole population of the insurance
organizations the researcher generalizes the factors that influence employees loyalty
toward the organizations based upon the response received from the sample population
The topic of this research is ethical since it is a topic to find out the factors influencing
employee’s loyalty towards organization, it doesn’t hurt or harm any person. When
conducting this study following ethics will be taken into consideration; that is
participants prior permission will be taken and will be given the freedom of choosing
whether to participate in the research or not, according to Rosnow, R. (2005),
participants consent is very significant therefore an explanatory information will be
included at the start of questionnaires.
The author will ensure that the collected data will be used only for this investigate and
will not be published for any other study. Sample population for this study is
employees therefore author will not be considered children, elderly people and
differently abled people for data collection for this study
3.12 Delimitation
The employee loyalty is influenced by many factors, but in this research, author will
be focusing only on three variables taken into consideration for evaluation that is
Remuneration package, Career development and Working Environment due to time
limit, accordingly the employee’s loyalty survey will be limited to the scope of work-
related issue. Also the study will be conducted in Insurance Companies based in
Colombo only with a limited number of respondents due to restricted time and budget.
Further delimitation is that often workers are unaware of their loyalty towards the
company and may unintentionally answer wrong when filling the survey
questionnaire.
4. APPENDICES
Respondents are anonymous and information about individual answers will not be reported.
Please carefully read these instructions before completing the questionnaire.
Dear Respondent,
This is study is intended for educational purpose only not for any commercial purposes. The
information gathered via this questionnaire will be kept confidentially and used only for this
study. Also information will be kept anonymously.
If you have any questions or queries with regard to this questionnaire or the research in
general, please contact me at the following details.
1.Below components of Remuneration package, career growth and Working Environment has
directly influenced my loyalty towards the organization.
Strongly Disagre Neutra Strongly
Disagree e l Agree agree
Employee Loyalty
1. I am Loyal towards the organization I am
employed at
Remuneration Package
1.My salary is influencing my loyalty
towards the organization.
2.my commission influencing my loyalty
towards the organization
3.The annual bonus is paid is influencing my
loyalty towards the organization.
4.The allowance is influencing my loyalty
towards the organization.
Career Growth
5.The promotion offered by the organization
is influencing my loyalty towards the
organization.
6. The Training and Development offered by
the organization is influencing my loyalty
towards the organization.
3. Rewards and recognition offered by the
organization is influencing my loyalty
towards the organization.
4.The performance appraisal conducted is
influencing my loyalty towards the
organization.
Work Environment
1.The organization culture of the
organization, influencing my loyalty towards
the organization .
2. The leadership and management
influencing my loyalty towards the
organization.
Gantt Chart
Completed To be completed
1st Week 3rd Week 6th Week 9th Week 11th Week13th Week15th Week17th Week
1 Identify Research Area
ForumulateResearch
2 Formulate ResearchStrategy,
Questions
3 Research design and sleect methods
4 Prepare Proposal Presentation
5 Prepare Research Proposal
6 Literature Review
7 Questionnaire Desinging & Testing
8 Data Collection
9 Data Analysis
10 Writting Conclusion
11 Finishing the First Draft
12 Addressing feedback
13 Completing the Survey
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