An integrated approach to worker assignment, workforce flexibility acquisition, and task rotation

Azizi, Nader; Liang, Ming

doi:10.1057/jors.2012.30

Cited by 36 publications

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“…The work of Azizi and Liang (2013) indicated that workforce flexibility can be achieved by cross-training and improved via job rotation. In the same way, Eguchi (2004) concluded that job transfer plays a significant role in preventing workers from performing influence activities for private help.…”

Section: Job Transfermentioning

confidence: 99%

A literature review on motivation

2013

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Research on motivation has attracted academic and corporate entities over the last two decades. In the present study, authors have reviewed the intense literature to extract all possible dimensions of motivation, having direct and indirect impact on motivation techniques. This has examined the multidimensionality of motivation from the existing literature and present a conceptual framework based on it, and it is experienced that various motivation techniques (discussed in this study) are having a positive impact on both employee satisfaction and the quality of performance in the organization; however, the model needs to be validated using quantitative measures. In order to study the various issues highlighted in this paper related to employee motivation, a large body of literature mainly from different journals have been incorporated. To make the study more current only those studies were included which were published in the last two decades. In past research papers few dimensions of motivation were used to explain the different models motivation theory which has direct influence on employee motivation. The novelty of this study lies in its theoretical framework where authors have made an attempt to come up with a construct having dimensions that directly or indirectly influences employee motivation.

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Section: Job Transfermentioning

confidence: 99%

A literature review on motivation

2013

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“…From the perspective of tasks, Azizi and Liang [5] developed an integrated approach to the worker assignment problem. Their dominant assignment problem includes workforce flexibility acquisition and task rotation.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge‐Based Assignment Model for Allocation of Employees in Engineering‐to‐Order Production

Roblek¹,

Zajec²,

Urh³

2017

Knowledge Management Strategies and Applications

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In today's rapidly changing business environment, it is necessary to react promptly in response to the product changes that happen constantly in an Engineering-to-Order production environment. Very often, there is not sufficient time to educate employees regarding new and necessary knowledge. If we insist on the standardization of a process execution, the process always requires appropriate knowledge from among available employees. In this chapter, an option for adjusting processes to available knowledge is studied. Following calculations, it was concluded that a partial corruption of a perfect process leads to a better knowledge alignment of employees. At first, with the corruption of a perfect process, its efficiency is decreased, but with better knowledge alignment, process efficiency is consequently increased to a level better than the original one. The optimization model presented in this chapter is based on a modified classic assignment problem and it includes a numerical example based on the data of ETO company. We proved our findings from the aspects of balance, employee capacity load and process efficiency.

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“…Aksin et al [57] reviewed the literature of cross-training for call center applications. Different from × × [58,59] × × × [60][61][62][63][64] × × [65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78] × × × [79][80][81] × × × × [82] × × × [83][84][85][86][87][88] × × [89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107] other review papers dedicated to cross-train...…”

Section: Cross-trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A related stream of research uses constrained optimization models to identify an optimal crosstraining configuration. IP is a commonly used model for these investigations (see [58,62,66,77,86,87,89,90,92,93,99,101,106]). In these IP models, the determination of optimal cross-training configurations is formulated with a variety of decision variables.…”

Section: Cost Type Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%