You have been appointed as the new CEO of Tesco Stores and you want to restructure the workforce by recruiting more part time workers. Critically discuss Atkinson’s theory on the flexible firm and the growth in non-standard work employment in a country of your choice or Britain. Provide evidence that employers are reorganising the workforce in the way identified in the flexible firm?

You have been appointed as the new CEO of Tesco Stores and you want to restructure the workforce by recruiting more part time workers. Critically discuss Atkinson’s theory on the flexible firm and the growth in non-standard work employment in a country of your choice or Britain. Provide evidence that employers are reorganising the workforce in the way identified in the flexible firm?

Economics For Today

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Chapter11: Labor Markets

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