GMENAC: its manpower forecasting framework.

Manpower Forecasting: A Discrete-Event Object-Oriented Simulation Approach

Every organization needs a workforce suitable for its tasks in order to reach its business aims. To get insight into the quality and amount of staff needed in the future, human resource forecasting models are being used. This descriptive paper addresses a new way of human resource forecasting, based on simulation models of personnel movements in the organization. An example model is implemented...

A dynamic manpower forecasting model for the information security industry

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model for manpower forecasting for the information security (IS) industry, one of the fastest growing IT-related industries. The proposed model incorporates three critical factors (feedback structure, time lags, and a flexible saturation point) in a system dynamics (SD) simulation frame. Design/methodology/approach – A simulation m...

International Journal of Forecasting Published Jan 2005 Forecasting risks in Naval manpower planning

This paper undertakes a comparison of qualitative and quantitative methods to incorporate risk in manpower planning, using the case study of UK’s Naval Services. This paper finds that the methods provide complementary insights in forecasting risk, and thus they offer an improvement over the use of a single method. Qualitative methods alone overstate impacts, and thus lead to inaccurate ranking ...

Perspectives on the GMENAC Report.

Manpower Cost Reduction in Electronics Maintenance: Framework and Recommendations

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