nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. so any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. this study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the iran ministry of health.this research is a cross wardal stud...

substitution management planning, as one of the important issues in manpower planning, is referred to as a process of filling the gaps and fulfilling the needs of very crutial and key elements of organization in managerial levels. meeting the needs by means of using external and internal manpower of the organization seems to be rational. however, it has some advantages and disadvantages. this p...

It is essential that airlines efficiently perform aircraft maintenance in order to ensure aviation safety and schedule punctuality. Traditionally, the arrangement of the maintenance manpower supply has been based on staff experience, and has been performed manually following simple rules. This is not only time-consuming but often ineffective. In this research we consider technicians with multip...

Abstract Markov manpower planning models have extensively been analyzed in the past in order to find an optimal personnel strategy for which the manpower system evolves towards desirable stocks. So far, those models do not take into account interactions among different organizational decision levels. In this paper, a multi-level manpower planning model is presented that considers, besides the d...

This paper describes the development of a computerized line maintenance simulation model for strategic manpower planning at Continental Airlines for one of their major maintenance stations at Newark airport. The simulation model provides guidelines to the development of enhanced staffing models and a better understanding of resource requirements on a daily basis. The proposed simulation model c...

Manpower recruitment and training in uncertain and turbulent environments is a challenge to decision makers in large organizations. In the absence of numerical precision on market growth and the ensuing manpower demand, designing manpower planning policies is vital. Often times, companies incur losses due to overstaffing and/or understaffing. For instance, organizations lose business when criti...