Payroll system

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Task Description

I have been assigned by Paul Richie to solve a problem he has. The situation is that he owns a new nightclub called Razamataz which is located in the Kings Cross area of London and has been running for 3 months now. The nightclub is aimed at young people at the ages 20 – 25. The club opens from Wednesdays to Sundays between the times 9pm to 5am. The club’s capacity is big enough to hold 500 people and when full requires 8 staff behind the bar.

Paul divides shifts into 4hr blocks, some staff work for the full eight hrs. At present there are 12 staff and Gerry Smithz draws up a rota at the beginning of each week. Gary manages their payroll by hand, keeping a record of what shifts each member of staff has been allocated and the number of hours they have worked each night. During this investigation I am going to use various methods to solve the problem at hand.

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Analysis

The main problem Gerry faces is that it takes a long time to calculate wages using a pen and calculator and mistakes are easily made especially if he is doing it in poor light. Although Gerry has a payroll book he often writes things down on scraps of paper which get lost. Staffs do sometimes lose their payslips, so Gerry then has to recalculate the whole payslip. In addition to theses problems Gerry faces, he has to write up a new rota each week by hand, and it is difficult to balance up the number of staff ...

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