Exploratory Study

Introduction I have been working in the restaurant industry for about 6 years. During my Elements of employee satisfaction includes employee flexibility, working hours, compensation,benefits,career growth and healthy relationships between employee and management. Therefore, the propose of this research study is to explore and analyze the factors that contribute to employee job satisfaction and turnover rates with in the restaurant industry. According to the Restaurant National Association, the restaurant industry is well known to be the nation’s second largest private sector employer which employs approximately 14 million individuals in one million locations. For that reason, it is important to recognize that high physical demands, high levels

I believe that exploratory design is the best approach for me to take since I will be able to collect employee’s background information to help me understand better what motivates employees to feel more satisfied and engage at any restaurant job. For the purpose of my research and to measure the levels of job satisfaction in the restaurant industry, I decided to collect my data in a standardized form and using a survey sampling method. According to the authors of the research methods for criminal justice and criminology book, survey sampling method can be defined as a data collection method that applies a standard instrument in a systematic way to take measurements from a large number of units. Therefore, the administration of questionaries to my target population can help me get a better insight of the overall employee’s attitudes, opinions and concerns towards their job satisfaction within the restaurant industry. For the subject sampling purpose, I decided to use a non-probability sampling approach by only administering surveys to those individuals who were available at the time. The survey was divided and broken down in a questionary form and demographic questions. The survey included a Likert - type 5 point satisfied/ dissatisfied scale; as well as open-ended questions

Each individual who participated in the survey was informed of the purpose of the study and gave informed consent before participating in the survey. Participants were told that there was no foreseeable risk associated with the study and that they could stop the survey at any moment if they didn't feel comfortable answering any questions from the survey. On the other hand and to protect the privacy of the participants, anonymity and confidentiality were also guaranteed to all participants of the study, and were also informed that data collected from the surveys was going to be coded and remain completely confidential. Finally, most of the participants who were ask to complete the survey took approximately 10 to 12 minutes to complete the questionnaire regarding restaurant’s employee job