Manpower Definition for Gasoline Stations through the Factor Analysis

Abstract

The paper is focused on the standards of the number of employees who work on gasoline stations development on the basis of factor analysis. The factors were found out which impact on maintenance manpower, including transactions and sales volume. The regression coefficients have been calculated to define dependence of the number of the front-line employees on the founded factors. The results were approved through comparison of the calculated norms and the real number of personnel who work in gasoline stations chain which unites the set of Russian regions. The theoretical results match properly to the Russian practice. The calculation of the normative number has been carried out by the approbation at the retailer of petroleum products, where the normative number of gasoline stations front-line staff was calculated on the basis of the most significant factors influencing the number of personnel of the filling stations determined by means of an expert survey. Based on the results of the calculation of the normative number of operators of gas stations, it was obtained that in general for all filling stations it is comparable to the actual one.