To provide effective support for education and training of U-City manpower, it is necessary to analyze its demand and develop the appropriate education course. Development of education courses requires reviewing the cases of other industries, understanding the demands of each educatees, developing the education courses in detail, and making the standard teaching materials. Therefore, this study...

BACKGROUND Health manpower is one of the critical factors in the development of a region. This is because health is an index of development. Bayelsa State has a low level of health manpower. Thus, in this study, we sought to identify factors necessary for effective development of health manpower. METHODS Three methods were used to gather information, ie, face-to-face interviews, postal survey...

Manpower planning is complex and demanding task, because in establishing the factual insights of an enterprise, one is required to have the in-depth knowledge of forecasting manpower planning and practices, as well as the knowledge of macroeconomics of the particular business involved. Inconsistency information and lack of knowledge during decision-making process could generate to inaccurate de...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model for manpower forecasting for the information security (IS) industry, one of the fastest growing IT-related industries. The proposed model incorporates three critical factors (feedback structure, time lags, and a flexible saturation point) in a system dynamics (SD) simulation frame. Design/methodology/approach – A simulation m...

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...

This study aimed to clarify the practices of skincare such as bathing, face-washing, and using products, among older adults living in nursing homes Japan. From July August 2017, questionnaire surveys were mailed 343 long-term care facilities one prefecture Japan, 105 returned survey. Management policies on use facial products was significantly associated with number resident/caregiver ratio. Me...

AIM To assess the feasibility of primary care nurses reviewing patients with 'stable' epilepsy. Sample Practice nurses, health visitors, and district nurses drawn from all GP practices in Cheshire West Primary Care Trust. METHOD Questionnaires were distributed to nursing staff about the management of patients considered to be stable but who require an annual review. RESULTS Regarding their ...