Workforce Planning for a Global Automotive Economy

Managing a national radiation oncologist workforce: a workforce planning model.

PURPOSE The specialty of radiation oncology has experienced significant workforce planning challenges in many countries. Our purpose was to develop and validate a workforce-planning model that would forecast the balance between supply of, and demand for, radiation oncologists in Canada over a minimum 10-year time frame, to identify the model parameters that most influenced this balance, and to ...

Strategic Health Workforce Planning

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

A Reasoning Economy for Planning and Replanning

Major military operations and other large-scale activities naturally involve competitions for resources that must be managed effectively to ensure overall success. Since plan revisions may change the resource demands of the activity, the relevant competitions for resources involve computational resources (time, database control, etc.) as well as the more obvious non-computational resources (fue...

Planning Australia's hospital workforce.

Growing government support has been evident during the past decade for macro-level workforce planning to ensure that future populations have access to appropriate health care services. Population ageing is impacting on workforce requirements and on workforce supply within Australia and internationally. Changes in financing and the organisation of health services are impacting on the availabilit...

Workforce Planning Models for Distribution Center Operations