background psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. objectives we investigated psychological capital states of employees of the tehran university of medical sciences (tums) headquarter offices in tehran, iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical...

BACKGROUND Physicians leaving and reentering clinical practice can have significant medical workforce implications. We surveyed inactive physicians younger than typical retirement age to determine their reasons for clinical inactivity and what barriers, real or perceived, there were to reentry into the medical workforce. METHODS A random sample of 4975 inactive physicians aged under 65 years ...

There are no analytical solutions for the problem of dynamic scheduling of resources for multiple projects in realtime. Mathematical approaches, like integer programming or network based techniques, cannot describe complexity of real problems (multi-projects environments have many interrelated elements), and have difficulties to adapt the analysis to dynamics changes. However, this complex prob...

Problem statement: In this article we address the multi-objective Periodic Maintenance Scheduling Problem (PMSP) of scheduling a set of cyclic maintenance operations for a given set of machines through a specified planning period to minimize the total variance of workforce levels measured in man-hours and maintenance costs with equal weights. Approach: The article proposed a mixed integer non-l...

In industry, typical scheduling systems rely on production rates which are, in general, highly static. This is the case for capital intensive enterprises but not the case in labour intensive situations. On the other hand, while most, if not all, researchers will agree that using Genetic and Evolutionary Programming (GEP) to achieve optimal solutions in Job-Shop Scheduling Problems (JSSPs) in no...

With the improvements in wide-area network performance and powerful computers, it is possible to integrate a large number of distributed machines belonging to different organizations as a single system, for example, a grid computing environment. A grid computing environment involves cooperation and sharing resources among distributed machines. Users may dispatch their tasks to remote computing ...

This brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. The project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the Australia...