Impact of Part Time Employment on Academic Performance of Students

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Topic: The impact of part time employment on the academic performance of students
Literature review
Part time jobs offers lucrative remuneration with the objective of attracting the attention
of the students (Barber and Santuzzi 2017). Therefore, most of the students get into part time job
careers while considering the short term goals of receiving some fair remuneration for supporting
the studies or their general needs. In most of the cases, it has been found that a handful of
immigrants gets lured by the employment offers that are provided by the companies for
establishing their short term goals (Darolia 2014). In this relation, the students tend to believe
that the remuneration from the part time jobs would support the same in paying their university
fees or while fulfilling their other requirements. However, most of the times, the students choose
a job profile that is distinct from that of their subject area (Eagan Jr, Jaeger and Grantham
2015). Therefore, research will delve into the manner in which the part time jobs might influence
the academic performance of the students.
The term part time employment indicates the minimum a half day of work in a week. In
case of part time workers, depending on the numbers of working days and total numbers of
working hours, the employees are being paid (Moriya, Selden and Simon 2016). The regulation
of part time employment gets changed in different countries. In the part time contract, the
employees carry fewer hours than a full time job. Analyzing the current scenario, it cannot be
denied that the part time employees have become the important part in day to day operations. In
the words of Even and Macpherson (2016), due to the higher benefits, most of the organizations
have started allowing the large numbers of part time workers. In the organizational perspective, it
can be said that the due to the lower cost as well as flexible working hours, based on the
requirement, the company can hire the part time workers. In order to maintain the uninterrupted

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operational activities in an organization, the part time employment is highly being appreciated.
Although the Part-time employment has brought huge benefits in the commercial field, but it
cannot be denied that introduction of part time employment brought drastic impact on the
academic field.
Secondary school students have higher rate of contribution in the global part time
employment. In order to get the supplement income, students have involved themselves in
different job roles such as office boys, doctors’ attendants, sales man and other jobs. By
continuing this, it can also be said that sense of responsibility among the students has got
increased due to their positive contribution in the part time jobs. By supporting this Mathur,
Slavov and Strain (2016) stated that it is also true that by providing the job opportunities to the
students, future opportunities of the students can be increased. By arguing this Richardson,
Elliott and Roberts (2015) opined that in order to develop both the personal and professional
career of the students, the part time employment opportunity has brought opportunities for
students in the labor market. By continuing this, it can be said that introducing the part time
employment, potentialities as well as non-cognitive abilities of individuals have got cultivated
(Even and Macpherson 2016). During the part time jobs, the students get chance to learning
while doing, which makes them more efficient.
Mixed economy is one of the important contributor that has brought the significant
impact of part time employment. In case of higher education, high tuition fees as well as
expensive academic resources have dragged the students towards involving in to the part time
employment (Reed and Hurd 2016). The trend of part time employment has influenced the
mental and physical health of the students. In the year 1998, the first entrants for the higher
education was almost £1000 and due to the addition of standard maintenance the amount reached