INTRODUCTION Forecasting the demand and supply of health manpower in an accurate manner makes appropriate planning possible. The aim of this paper was to review approaches and methods for health manpower forecasting and consequently propose the features that improve the effectiveness of this important process of health manpower planning. METHODS A literature review was conducted for studies p...

This paper investigates the manpower allocation problem with time windows and job-teaming constraints (MAPTWTC), a practical scheduling and routing problem that tries to synchronize workers’ schedules to complete all tasks. We first provide an integer programming model for the problem and discuss its properties. Next, we show that tree data structure can be used to represent the MAPTWTC solutio...

The privatisation of British Rail into twenty-five train operating companies and three freight companies has highlighted the need for each company to have efficient operating schedules. Manpower costs are a significant element in any transport organisation and the ability to minimise these costs is seen as crucial to the well running of these companies. In addition the need to try out different...

In the recent competitive business era of globalization it is truly tough to acquire the organizational effectiveness and efficiency without proper manpower planning and development practices. Manpower plays the dual role in operations, first, itself is an operative force and second, it makes the other forces operative and has a significant role in achieving the organizational effectiveness and...

This paper models how a nation’s military manpower system affects the decision to go to war. Manpower systems differ primarily in how they distribute costs: the volunteer system shares the war’s manpower costs broadly, while the draft forces a subset of the population to bear a disproportionate share of the load. This difference affects an officeand policy-motivated politician’s decision to go ...

This paper examines a longitudinal model of a manpower system in which the demands for effective manpower is determined by the state of a ! aiite Markov chain, and there are delays in training an adequate supply of effective manpower. We present an operational method of calculating optimal appointment policies. This calculation can in turn be used to find the equilibrium operating rules for the...

Abstract Construction contractors usually undertake multiple construction projects simultaneously. Such a situation involves sharing different types of resources, including monetary, equipment, and manpower, which may become major challenge in many cases. In this study, the financial aspects working on at time are addressed investigated. The study considers dealing with shortages by proposing m...