A Quantitative Approach to Balancing Manpower Requirements and Personnel Inventories,

Abstract

A model for the Navy's Enlisted Personnel System was formulated to determine (rather than predict) an advancement and recruit input/training 'policy' for each of the enlisted ratings. The formulation is intended to make a feasible determination based on the personnel system's structure, estimates of promotion eligible personnel, and the supply of recruits. A penalty function is used to measure the discrepancy between 'requirements' and strength, by rating and pay grade, over time. Bounds on the strength will not permit a feasible solution to create an excessive shortage or overage, unless it is inherited from the beginning inventory. The inventory is categorized by skill, period, pay grade, and time-in-grade. Also, the apprentice population (those in Pay Grades E-1--E-3), is categorized by period and time in service, but not by skill. 'Strikes' are accounted for implicitly. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA079472

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  • Richard W. Butterworth

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  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Force Structure
  • Human Resources
  • Linear Programming
  • Management Personnel
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • Optimization
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Training

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