Manpower Stocks and Flow in a Rank-Structured Hierarchy

Abstract

Manpower problems of an organization have long been of great concern not only for prediction of the future personnel inventory at different ranks but also for analysing the interaction between states of ranks and indicating chances for promotion. This study is intended to construct and investigate reasonable and tractable models for manpower -- that is, models that describe the dynamics of recruitment, advancement, and separation of individuals in a rank-structured system. It is tempting to devise approximate diffusion models for such problems, in order to obtain simple analytical mathematical expressions for quantities of interest.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA026322

Entities

People

  • Jae C. Kim Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Classification
  • Covariance
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffusion
  • Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Hierarchies
  • Inventory
  • Manpower
  • Operations Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Steady State
  • Theses

Readers

  • Economics
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Theoretical Analysis.