... and each dependent communication satisfaction factor for full‐time and part‐time employees. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Part‐time work Retail trade Employee relations Employee communications The Australian retail industry is coping with the deregulation of trading hours and changing...

... Gender Part‐time work Australia Management of the employment relationship has changed markedly throughout the world in the last two decades in response to the intensified degree of competition created by processes of globalisation. Two major elements of this change have been the extension...

...Christine Y. Edwards; Olive Robinson Part‐time working has been traditionally associated with poor quality, low skill jobs in the secondary labour market. Explores the expansion of part‐time work into skilled occupations using case studies in nursing and the police. Employees in both services have...

...‐time workers are less likely to be involved in work‐related training to improve or increase their skills which also reduces costs to employers, but may make workers less efficient and effective. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Students Part‐time work Employers Flexibility Service industries...

... the direction of change in working time arrangements are associated with discretion/choice debates, labour force changes, equality issues, technology and organiza‐tional efficiency and the unemployment/work‐sharing argument. Focuses specifically on one workforce variable, namely part‐time work. Believes...

... profile. Flexibility Gender Labour market Part‐time work Service Young people Here it is useful to use as a framework four potential reasons mentioned by Micklewright et al. (1994) as affecting the employment decision. These are financial pressures, the state of the local...

... validity of part‐time work as a flexible form of working. Rather, the focus on part‐time and short‐term contracts is based on the fact that together they make‐up a significant part of the flexible working patterns across Europe. Part‐time working is one of the fastest growing forms of flexible working...

... is the independent variable. Australia Flexibility Inequality Part‐time Work Peripheral employment Women Working conditions One of the most striking features of the Australian labour market over the past two decades has been the growth of part‐time, casual,temporary and contract work. These forms...

...Alison Balchin Draws on a small research study undertaken in the retail industry,providing a very timely consideration of the choices and circumstances of those who work on a part‐time basis. Considers the reasons given by workers for choosing part‐time work, the costs involved and the extent...

..., NJ, 1991, p. 363. 13. Lewis, R., Labour Law in Britain, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, p. 15. 14. Casey, B., Temporary Employment - Practice and Policy in Britain, Policy Studies Institute, London, 1988, p. 27. Employee rights Employment law Employment protection Hotel and catering Part‐time work...

... of directives′ provisions being adopted. Discusses the decisions of the European Court of Justice, which may have a profound impact on part‐time work, whether or not the directives are adopted, and outlines developments in employer and union policy on part‐time workers. © MCB UP Limited 1992...