A successive convex approximation method for multistage workforce capacity planning problem with turnover

Song, H.; Huang, Hongye

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2007.04.018

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“…A decision is made about how many employees should be trained to acquire certain skills. Li and Li [88], Song and Huang [104] and Fowler et al [57] make these decisions on a weekly or monthly basis, but Li and Li [88] is the only paper that does take the disadvantages of cross-training into account. Huang et al [76] and Marentette et al [93] only make the training decision on a yearly basis and therefore fail to provide the exact timing of the training.…”

Section: Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Employees tend to leave when they get dissatisfied as a result of bad decisions. Huang et al [76] and Song and Huang [104] do not link the voluntary leaving of people to decisions in the model, but just assume a fixed percentage of people that will leave voluntarily. Hence, an interesting path for future research is to incorporate voluntary leaving as a negative consequence of skill substitution.…”

Section: Voluntary Leavingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In such scenarios, it is often the case that the deployment of flexible cross-trained workers is impossible from a practical point of view. Song and Huang [104], for example, work with department specific skills. Since the different departments are located too far from each other, it is impossible to make the workers change department to perform another task.…”

Section: Hierarchical Skills and Substitutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In [57,76,88,93,104], the planning decision for cross-training the workforce is incorporated in the model. A decision is made about how many employees should be trained to acquire certain skills.…”

Section: Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Workforce planning incorporating skills: State of the art

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This paper presents a review and classification of the literature regarding workforce planning problems incorporating skills. In many cases, technical research regarding workforce planning focuses very hard on the mathematical model and neglects the real life implications of the simplifications that were needed for the model to perform well. On the other hand, many managerial studies give an extensive description of the human implications of certain management decisions in particular cases, but fail to provide useful mathematical models to solve workforce planning problems. This review will guide the operations researcher in his search to find useful papers and information regarding workforce planning problems incorporating skills. We not only discuss the differences and similarities between different papers, but we also give an overview of the managerial insights. The objective is to present a combination of technical and managerial knowledge to encourage the production of more realistic and useful solution techniques.

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Section: Trainingmentioning

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Section: Hierarchical Skills and Substitutionmentioning

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“…An and Subramanian (2008) extend their work by offering an integrated model for short-term staffing and long-term capacity planning, using the same mathematical programming formulation as in their previous paper. Staffing problems in a business service organization are also addressed by Song and Huang (2008). They consider the planning problem of transferring (through cross-training), hiring and firing employees among different departments or branches.…”

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A decision support system and a mathematical model for strategic workforce planning in consultancies

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Strategic staff planning in consultancies is a major problem that directly affects the firm's performance and capacity for dealing with projects appropriately. Furthermore, the decisions taken now will have long term consequences, because consultants are highly qualified workers who need very long learning periods to achieve enough expertise. In other words, the size and composition of the future workforce depends on the decisions taken today. It is important to underline that the system anticipates future capacity adjustment in response to forecasted demand requirements; therefore, it is flexible to plan the workforce in different scenarios and time horizons. This paper proposes a decision support system based on a mathematical optimization model for solving strategic staff planning, taking the company's strategies, policies and objectives into account and optimizing both the costs and the staff composition. The tool is tested by applying it in an office belonging to a multinational consulting firm.

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Strategic Capacity Planning in KIOs: A Classification Scheme

Martínez

Lusa

Más

et al. 2013

Annals of Industrial Engineering 2012

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(English) This paper introduces the Strategic Capacity Planning problem in knowledge intensive organizations (KIOs) and proposes a classification scheme based on different characteristics such as the organization structure, the workforce characteristics, the capacity requirements, the capacity decisions or the evaluation criteria, among others. The classification, which gives rise to a high number of variants, is the first step towards a general solving methodology design and the developing of ad hoc solving procedures.

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A successive convex approximation method for multistage workforce capacity planning problem with turnover

Cited by 42 publications

References 21 publications

Workforce planning incorporating skills: State of the art

Workforce planning incorporating skills: State of the art

A decision support system and a mathematical model for strategic workforce planning in consultancies

Strategic Capacity Planning in KIOs: A Classification Scheme

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