Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147651 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Manuskripte aus den Instituten für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Kiel No. 593
Publisher: 
Universität Kiel, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Kiel
Abstract: 
Effectiveness in the use of the work force is often the crucial advantage in a company's long-term success over its competitors, especially in technology driven and highly competitive branches as the one considered in this article. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of extensive research over the past decades, usually it is assumed that the size of the work force is either given or can be obtained without difficulty. In this research we provide an integer programming model for long-term staffing decisions. The model is based on qualification profiles, the number of which grows exponentially in terms of the number of processes considered. We present empirical results for a company from the printing branch which show the potential of our approach. In particular, it will be shown that applying the model lowers the total cost of the work force in the range of 26% - 39%.
Subjects: 
Work force planning
qualification profile
printing company
empirical results
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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