Manpower: Government planning and legislation

Linking Strategic Planning and Management Manpower Planning

A well-developed strategic plan is merely an expensive report. It becomes a viable tool when it is placed in the hands of a manager competent to execute the plan. While the link between corporate strategic planning and management manpower planning seems obvious, a recent Business Week article suggests that companies are only now seriously trying to develop formal ties between the two systems. ̂ ...

Longitudinal Manpower Planning Models

Several manpower planning models are presented that exploit the longitudinal stability of manpower cohorts. The manpower planning process is described along with the problem of identifying and obtaining various types of longitudinal data. An infinite horizon linear program for calculating minimum cost manpower input plans is found to have a straightforward solution in a great many cases and to ...

Recent government policy and legislation

This is the first in a series of articles to be published serially in the Psychiatric Bulletin on recent government policy and legislation. Each article will describe a different piece of legislation and place it in its international perspective, highlighting how it will affect individual psychiatric practice, users of mental health services and the working relationship with purchasers and mana...

Manpower Planning with Uncertain Requirements

This paper examines a longitudinal model of a manpower system in which the demands for effective manpower is determined by the state of a ! aiite Markov chain, and there are delays in training an adequate supply of effective manpower. We present an operational method of calculating optimal appointment policies. This calculation can in turn be used to find the equilibrium operating rules for the...

Manpower planning-the teachers' tale.