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Coursework Briefing.
These are some step-wise suggestions on how your coursework preparation could be simplified:
1. Familiarise yourself with the classification of WFPs by browsing the reference given to you for this coursework and the lecture slides on this topic as well as any slides/reading you may think relevant.
2. Identify three WFPs of interest to you – you could use the lecture slides on WFPs. For examples of WFPs, you could look at part-time work, teamwork, flexitime, job sharing, job autonomy, pay-related to performance etc. There can be any choice of WFPs, whether numerical/temporal, function or cost WFPs.
3. Locate peer-reviewed literature on the three WFPs of your choice linked to their use in the workplace (by employees).
– Remember that geographically, this literature it also needs to be literature on the UK, or the UK compared to one other European Union country
4. Think of how the peer-reviewed literature you have found has analysed the topic of interest, in particular, how have they used the data – are there any ‘types’ of employees singled-out as benefiting from the respective three WFPs or not benefiting from those three WFPs? For instance, has the literature found out that senior levels of management tend to not be part-time workers? Or that there is a long-hour working culture among certain occupations? Is flexitime more likely to be encountered for a particular age/occupation/ type of employee? Or, is pay-related to performance or bonus pay widespread in a particular occupation/ industry?
– When you look at the analysis of the literature, locate at least one organisational aspect of your choice that the literature has analysed. For instance, when a WFP is analysed, what is measured, or how is its effect analysed? The answer may be that the effect of the WFP is linked to wage (in)equality, labour mobility, human capital and training, job satisfaction and well-being, absenteeism or quits etc. For instance, has the use of job autonomy (as WFP) could have been analysed in relation to its effect on job satisfaction, or its effect on labour productivity. Or, the use of pay-related to performance, or the use of bonus pay, could have been analysed in relation to their effect on wage inequality.

5. By critically analysing your findings from the literature (point 3 above), then comment on how WFPs appear to offer advantages / disadvantages, and to what extent are these advantages observed for particular types of employees. For instance, to what extent does working part-time make it easier (or harder) for someone to reach senior levels in management? Or, to what extent does working long-hours, or working flexitime, or bonus pay, offer an advantage to male workers?