Discrete simulation modelling for corporate manpower planning
| Autor: | Trevor Wegner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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Manpower planning
Information Systems and Management ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Operations research Computer science Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Staffing Management Science and Operations Research Planner Range (mathematics) Procurement Promotion (rank) Decision support tools Discrete event simulation computer media_common computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Omega. 13:201-210 |
| ISSN: | 0305-0483 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0305-0483(85)90058-1 |
| Popis: | Manpower planners within South African companies have very few, if any, decision support tools at their disposal to assist them in the formulation of their manpower strategies. Such quantitative tools as do exist are mathematically too sophisticated to be easily understood and implemented by manpower managers who are, on the whole, non numerate. The approach proposed in this paper, namely simulation modelling, discusses and demonstrates a powerful quantitative method which is conceptually easy to understand and whose results are easily interpreted. This particular simulation model examines the impact on organisational staffing levels over time as a result of specific present/proposed manpower policies in the areas of procurement and promotion. Through manipulating the inputs, the manpower planner can, with relative ease, examine the consequences of a range of alternative policies within a very short period of time. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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