Ratio Goal Programming for Personnel Assignments.
Abstract
Various optimization techniques have been applied to meet manpower palnning and staffing goals. Attainment of these goals is usually accepted as a surrogate for attaining the maximum organizational effectiveness. However, the goals of most of these techniques are exogenous and the way they are determined has been generally ignored. This paper presents a novel formulation of manpower goals which is stated in terms of attaining optimal ratios of personnel desired between the various skills employed in an organization. This framework stresses the importance of the appropriate mixture of skills in the various units of an organization, not just the total number of people assigned. A technique called RATIO GOAL PROGRAMMING is presented and an example illustrates staffing an organization by minimizing a weighting of the squared deviations form the ideal ratios and the unit personnel ceilings. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA075220
Entities
People
- Gerald L. Thompson
- Samuel J. Siverd
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University