Corporate Manpower Planning

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Using data envelopment analysis in markovian decision making

“…As McClean (1991) and Smith and Bartholomew (1988) mention, manpower planning can be traced back to 1779 when John Rowe used an actuarial model to plan careers in the Royal Marines. Pioneering in the area are considered the students' enrolment model of Gani (1963), the work of Young and Almond (1965) on predicting distributions of staff, the volumes edited by A.R Smith (1971Smith ( , 1976Smith ( and 1980 on manpower planning systems, manpower planning in the civil services and corporate manpower planning, the classic book by S. Vajida (1978) on the mathematics of manpower planning and the seminal book by Bartholomew (1982). It is also not a coincidence at all that, in a series of papers, the pioneers of goal programming and DEA, A. Charnes and W.W. Cooper with their colleagues (1968,1972,1973,1976) set the fundamentals for predictive and normative manpower modelling for civil services and/or corporate settings, using both probabilistic approaches and mathematical programming techniques, including multiple objective optimization.…”

Maximising profitability of quaternary sector organisations through workforce optimisation

“…WFP is future-oriented; it considers broader issues in the context of how individuals are employed and developed within an organisational setup to enhance organisational effectiveness (Armstrong, 2001). Verhoeven (1982) has emphasised the importance of human resource planning in large and complex organisations that have increased specialisation and higher in the number of hierarchical levels. It leads to the employment of individuals with different skill sets and levels of training.…”

“…Techniques used for WFP have evolved over time. Verhoeven (1982) has described several statistical techniques that are applied to human resource requirement forecasting by classifying them as univariate and multivariate models. Fyfe (1980) has observed an excessive emphasis on the traditional approach to WFP to arrive at a number that would state an organisation's labour requirements at a point in time, leaving several assumptions and questions unanswered.…”

The Entropy Theoretic Measure for Manpower Systems in Perspective

“…The implementation of Markovian manpower models (MMMs) is characterized by computational complexities. For this reason, several software packages such as KENT, PROSPECT, MICROPROSPECT, CAMPLAN, and MAN-SIM (Bartholomew et al, 1991;Smith and Bartholomew, 1988); and FORMASY (Verhoeven, 1981) have been developed to facilitate the use of MMMs. These packages are tailored towards specialized problems and thus cannot be easily modified.…”