Meaningful Volunteer Labor
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Optimization of volunteer labor assignments
Labor is a crucial resource in most organizations. In not-for-profit, public, and government services, it is common for labor to include unpaid volunteers. This article demonstrates how the volunteer labor assignment (VLA) problem is markedly different from traditional labor assignment (TLA) problems such as labor scheduling. One core difference pertains to the cost structure of labor, where TL...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Idei
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2367-6108,1313-9703
DOI: 10.34017/1313-9703-2020-1(15)-2(16)-67-77