Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered

Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: The “Boston” Mechanism Reconsidered

Job Shop Scheduling with Unit Length Tasks: Bounds and Algorithms

We consider the job shop scheduling problem unit−Jm, where each job is processed once on each of m given machines. Every job consists of a permutation of tasks for all machines. The execution of any task on its corresponding machine takes exactly one time unit. The objective is to minimize the overall completion time, called makespan. The contribution of this paper are the following results: (i...

Job Tasks, Time Allocation, and Wages∗

This paper studies wage determination using the first longitudinal dataset containing joblevel task information for individual workers. Novel quantitative task measures detail the amount of time spent performing People, Information, and Objects tasks at different skill levels. These measures suggest natural proxies for on-the-job human capital accumulation and provide new insights about wage de...

Conflicting Criteria in Embedded System Design

The design of complex embedded systems involves the simultaneous optimization of several often competing objectives. Instead of a single optimal design, there is rather a set of alternative trade-offs. The paper describes the involved issues and proposes a methodology to cope with the different sources of heterogeneity in embedded system design. This combination of a design framework, new hybri...

Problems with job evaluation and organisation design

The focus is on the job, not the jobholder. The jobholder’s contribution is covered in performance appraisal. The aim is to identify the elements in a job that the incumbent can influence or might attain through training and experience. Job evaluation is an attempt to overcome subjective preferences and inbuilt biases that could jeopardise an individual’s progress or reward in an organisation. ...