Job rotation using the multi-period assignment model

Bhadury, Joyendu; Radovilsky, Zinovy

doi:10.1080/00207540500057621

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“…Many organizations make use of this strategy to have multi-skilled and crossfunctional workers. However, as some researchers reported, it is likely to gain no improvement in employee's performance [6]. According to Bhadury and Radovilsky [6], applying rules without purposeful measures do not result in improving performance.…”

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“…However, as some researchers reported, it is likely to gain no improvement in employee's performance [6]. According to Bhadury and Radovilsky [6], applying rules without purposeful measures do not result in improving performance. Therefore, it is required to develop models based on more useful rules to enhance the effectiveness of job rotation through modifying the way of scheduling what jobs are to be assigned to certain employees [6].…”

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“…According to Bhadury and Radovilsky [6], applying rules without purposeful measures do not result in improving performance. Therefore, it is required to develop models based on more useful rules to enhance the effectiveness of job rotation through modifying the way of scheduling what jobs are to be assigned to certain employees [6]. Job rotation scheduling problem (JRSP) is generally structured as a multi-period assignment model, which has a great deal of feasible rotations impossible to be enumerated and evaluated for optimality by mathematical programming approaches particularly for large-size problems.…”

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“…[7,28]. However, advantages of job rotation practice in performance improvement are certainly not shown [6]. Wilkinson and Edwards, providing the first study on job rotation, showed that the system with two operators and rotating jobs had the better performance than the system with three operators and no rotating jobs [28].…”

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“…In Griffin's discussion on some implementation case studies, it was posited that job rotation has not been successful in improving either by motivating or satisfying employees [17]. In contrary to that, some studies reported successful improvements in employee's satisfaction through rotating jobs [6]. Desai et al [10] reported that ergonomic job rotation strategy led to more positive effects on cumulative trauma than the strategy with no ergonomic considerations.…”

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GA and ICA approaches to job rotation scheduling problem: considering employee’s boredom

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Zandieh

Farsijani

2011

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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This paper presents a new model dealing with the job rotation scheduling problem, which is less studied, focusing on human characteristics such as boredom.Existing literature on conceptualizing boredom shows that researchers evaluate boredom in terms of exposure to the same tasks. We developed it to "exposure to similar tasks" and defined its functionality based on the need of assigning jobs with more similarity to each worker in the smallest period of planning which lowers the external interruption effect on worker's concentration. To address the imbalance between number of jobs and that of workers in many industrial settings, we developed a multi-period imbalance assignment model. The proposed model is to rotate workers during a given planning horizon such that the total cost including assignment and boring cost will be minimized. The applicability of the model is described by presenting some real cases and validated through solving several randomly produced test problems by using Lingo software. Two search algorithms, genetic algorithm (GA) and imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), designed to conquer the algorithmic complexity of model and their parameters adjusted using Taguchi's method were used. The efficiency of algorithms is shown, comparing it with Lingo computation times, and it is shown that ICA solutions have better quality than GA solutions as well.

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Boredom at Work and Job Monotony: An Exploratory Case Study within the Catering Sector

Tsai

2016

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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This article presents an exploratory study that examines workplace boredom in monotonous catering‐sector jobs. It investigates whether boredom is associated with monotonous tasks and explores strategies for minimizing it. Data were collected from multiple sources that included observation, company documentation, and interviews with management and unskilled staff engaged in simple, repetitive work in the catering department of a British university. The findings indicate that there is no linkage between boredom and monotonous tasks, and that job rotation and management support are the two key organizational mechanisms used to support the work of catering personnel. The reasons for the absence of boredom were found to be related to the workers’ job requirements, their interest in doing their jobs, the organization's strategies for alleviating workplace boredom, and the time lag of the tasks. The implications for human resource development (HRD) are discussed.

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Mathematical Model for Ergonomic Job Rotation Scheduling to Balance the Workload of Employees in Assembly Lines

Dinler

Işık

2020

Advances in Manufacturing, Production Management and Process Control

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Job rotation using the multi-period assignment model

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

GA and ICA approaches to job rotation scheduling problem: considering employee’s boredom

GA and ICA approaches to job rotation scheduling problem: considering employee’s boredom

Boredom at Work and Job Monotony: An Exploratory Case Study within the Catering Sector

Mathematical Model for Ergonomic Job Rotation Scheduling to Balance the Workload of Employees in Assembly Lines

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