An analysis framework is presented that can be used to assess important issues of mobile workforce solutions, based on recent literature on mobile business. Within this framework we did two exploratory mobile workforce case studies, one at a rail company, and one at a highway inspection organization, both in the Netherlands. Preliminary evidence shows that mobile workforce solutions have a dire...

The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce development is that there is little debate about the ty...

BACKGROUND Surveys of nursing supplies around the world have furnished a better understanding of the structure of the workforce, helped identify shortages, and plan professional training. This study aimed to examine the employment and workforce characteristics of registered nurses and the projected supply in Israel as a tool for planning. METHODS 1. A survey of a national sample of 10% of the...

This double issue represents a continuation of our first collection of research articles on workforce issues published in Library Trends, Volume 58, Number 2, Fall 2009. Concerns about the current and future state of the library workforce continue to grow as greater numbers of Baby Boomers move closer to their retirement years. As Manjarrez, Ray, and Bisher point out in this issue, half of libr...

in this paper, we consider a multi-site production planning problem subject to uncertainty in demand and workforce expenses. in our new mathematical model, we presented a production planning system considering failure in rework and breakdown. we also survey human workforce allocation and its expenses which are considered uncertain due to some tradeoff between company’s benefits and workforce :u...

the purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between stressmanagement and workforce productivity of amol industrial park located inmazandaran province. the total population size in the research was 250 from topmanagers, middle managers and supervisors responsible in the before-mentionedindustrial park and the sample size was determined through morgan samplepopulation volume table ...

the changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-saharan african countries continue to challenge efforts to address critical shortages of the health workforce. addressing these challenges have led to the evolution of “non-physician clinicians” (npcs), that assume some physician roles and thus mitigate the continuing shortage of doctors in these count...