Analyse Whether Part Time Employees At World Duty Free (WDF) Have Been The Solution To Better Productivity (2008)
This Dissertation aims to analyse whether part time employees at World Duty Free (WDF) have been the solution to better productivity. WDF is the world’s leading duty free retailer of the British Airport Authority (BAA). The analysis of this project’s research data will examine the better productivity by part time employees against full time employees of the above organisation, and focusing much more on the term ‘better productivity’ to measure the performance.
WDF’s strategy to further implement part time working arrangement has been established to improve employees’ productivity. Further in detail, the project will seek to review past and present literature of the topic so that an adequate conclusion is reached. The key objective of the report is to investigate and demonstrate the implication of part time working on a Western society paying particular attention to UK organisations; such statistics will enable the research to be more efficient.
Consequently, this encourages the idea of the impact of part time working, exploring advantages and disadvantages. The most effective means of measuring productivity is by performance by staff, considering the quality and quantity of work produced during working hours.
- 11,000 words – 77 pages in length
- Excellent use of literature
- Excellent use of models
- Good in depth analysis
- Includes questionnaire
1 – Introduction
Aims of the project
Objectives of the project
Motives for selecting part time employees as the topic
Introducing British Airport Authority (BAA)
Introducing World Duty Free (WDF)
What do they do?
Motives for selecting the case study organisation
Theoretical Framework
Structure of the project
2 – Methodology
Primary research
Secondary research
Reliability and validity of data
3 – Literature Review
Understanding part-time working
Who are Part time workers?
Why part time working?
Advantages and disadvantages of employing part time workers
Atkinson’s ‘flexible firm model’ (1984)
Human resource planning
Legislation related to part time working
An overview of part-time working patterns in the UK
4 – Primary Research
PART A – Introduction
Employing part time workers
PART B – Introduction
Part-time working at WDF
5 – Evaluation
Evaluation
Recommendations
Appendices
Bibliography