Leveraging Multi-Tier Workforce and Complexity Modeling

Abstract

Organizational change remains an active vein of research area for operations research. Many models attempt to capture how changes in a workforce structure, work processes, and skill composition interact to generate output. While many models attempt to conduct discrete optimizations, these efforts fail to explain how an organization, and its performance, might evolve or transition between the current and desired state. Furthermore, many models attempt to aggregate workers and work, oversimplifying the operational environment in which the organization operates. By leveraging system dynamics, this work reveals the benefits of disaggregating workers and work complexities to predict emergent behavior experienced by changes in organizational structure and composition. It also demonstrates a method to transform a system dynamics model into a web based Shiny application to enable client engagement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1102266

Entities

People

  • Jd Caddell

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Flight Simulators
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Language
  • Literature Surveys
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Steady State
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Theoretical Analysis.