A stochastic goal program for employee scheduling

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A stochastic goal program (SGP) can maximize labor scheduling management in service organizations. SGP differs from the traditional deterministic goal program (DGP) implemented by managers by using a probability distribution for the amount of required labor. DGP assigns a certain number of workers to each feasible schedule. A comparison between the DGP and SGP solutions on 1,728 various test problems shows that SGP solutions generally require a small number of workers and lower labor costs but higher shortage costs than DGP solutions.

Business Personnel Management, Service Industries, Human resource management, Management research, Services industry

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The effects of learning, forgetting, and relearning on decision rule performance in multiproject scheduling

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The effect of learning, forgetting and relearning (LFR) on project completion time was investigated when preemption is permitted. A model for the LFR cycle in multiproject development projects was developed. Several priority rules for activity scheduling, activity preemption and resource assignment subsequent to preemption, subject to the presence of the LFR cycle, for which a single type of knowledge worker resource is assigned among multiple projects, was tested. Findings showed that LFR effects are significant.

Management Functions NEC, Methods, Project management, Usage, Scheduling (Management), Organizational change, Career development, Heuristic programming

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Workforce-constrained preventive maintenance scheduling using evolution strategies

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Research is presented concerning the preventative maintenance tasks which are carried out by railroad yards and aircraft service centers within the workforce skill availability constraints. Evolution strategies are discussed.

Engineering Services, Maintenance Engineering, Management, Industrial equipment, Prevention, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Industrial efficiency, Economic efficiency, Accidents, Calendar, Maintenance and repair, Maintenance

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