This article proposes an algorithm for deploying manpower to a statistical process control (SPC) system that monitors a multistage manufacturing system. The algorithm minimizes the expected total cost by optimizing the amount of allocated manpower in the SPC system (referred to as an M-SPC system), as well as the sample sizes, sampling intervals and control limits of the control charts. It also...

The ability to forecast manpower requirements is crucial for an industry. On the demand side, companies rely on these forecasts to formulate their manpower planning strategies, while, on the supply side, they provide job seekers with a basis to assess the attractiveness of a given sector. Forecasts of supply and demand for manpower also make an important contribution to the governmental policy-...

Cite this article: Akin Oyemakinde, Patrick Nguku, Rebecca Babirye, Sheba Gitta, Peter Nsubuga, Joseph Nyager, Abdulsalami Nasidi. Building a public health workforce in Nigeria through experiential training. Pan Afr Med J. 2014;18(Supp 1):1

Manpower is a highly critical resource in many industries. It is not surprising that organizations place substantial investment into manpower management matters. Manpower rostering, which addresses the issues of employing, allocating and scheduling manpower resources to meet operational demands, is at the heart of the manpower management cycle. Rostering is a particularly prominent activity i...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the attitudes, experiences and beliefs of advanced-level public health nutritionists with respect to public health nutrition workforce composition, core functions, competency requirements and existing workforce capacity. DESIGN Qualitative study using structured interviews. SETTING Australia. SUBJECTS Forty-one advanced-level public health nutritionists employed ...

This paper relates the Defense Acquisition University defined systems engineering process to zonal ship design at the concept and feasibility design level. In particular, it describes an effective way of capturing a complete set of customer requirements based on the Universal Navy Task List (UNTL) and allocating these required functions to system packages comprised of hardware, software, and ma...