The objective of this study was to analyze hospital staff nurses' shift length, scheduling characteristics, and nurse reported safety and quality. A secondary analysis of a large nurse survey linked with hospital administrative data was conducted. More than 22 000 registered nurses' reports of shift length and scheduling characteristics were examined. Extended shift lengths were associated with...

This paper introduces a new method for shift scheduling in multi-skill call centers. The method consists of two steps. First, staffing levels are determined and next, in the second step, the outcomes are used as input for the scheduling problem. The scheduling problem relies on a linear programming model that is easy to implement and has short computation times, i.e., a fraction of a second. Th...

ABSTRACT In this paper, we report perhaps a first of its kind application of management science in the Ethiopian hotel industry. Avanti Blue Nile Hotels, a newly established five star hotel in Bahir Dar, is the company for which we developed an integer programming model that determines an optimal weekly shift schedule for the Hotel's engineering department personnel while satisfying several con...

This paper studies a two-phase decomposition approach to solving the personnel scheduling problem. The first phase creates a days-off-schedule, indicating working days and days off for each employee. The second phase assigns shifts to the working days in the days-off-schedule. This decomposition is motivated by the fact that personnel scheduling constraints are often divided into two categories...

This pandemic situation has brought in new set of challenges many sectors the economy. While people are adapting to normal, organisations trying hard maintain uninterrupted flow work. Since work is done remotely away from standard, employee engagement become one prominent priorities Human resource management department. Organizations continuously develop effective techniques same level as befor...

Shift-scheduling calibration of automatic transmission (AT) vehicles is vital for both driving experience and automobile industry. Shifting schedules are usually calibrated with the consideration fuel economy drivability while neglecting individual preference. In this work, we propose to exemplify shifting preference by integrating manual (MT) habit into AT shift-scheduling calibration, where r...