Staffing a multiskilled workforce with varying levels of productivity: an analysis of cross-training policies

Article Abstract:

An integer linear programming framework was developed in an effort to provide service-oriented firms an efficient means of optimizing their labor force potential, while putting a cap on costs. The model dwells on the concept of optimizing labor requirements across a planning horizon in order to generate considerable work force cost reductions. Results revealed that identifying cross-training structures that allow employee chaining is a robust alternative in increasing productivity.

Business Personnel Management, Models, Human resource management, Labor supply, Labor force

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Optimal solutions for the single batch, flow shop, lot-streaming problem with equal sublots

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The study develops a way to allow production managers to determine how to divide sublots in a single-batch, flow shop to resolve lot-streaming problems. The method involves loosening several limitations inherent in available models to optimize production performance.

Production control, Planning

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Linking work design to mass customization: a sociotechnical systems perspective

Article Abstract:

The analysis of the relation between work design and mass customization, based on the application of the sociotechnical systems theory for the evauation of the results of a survey, is presented.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Analysis, Usage, Forecasts and trends, Economics, Market trend/market analysis, Statistics, Statistics (Data), Work design, Economic theory

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