Cross-training policies and team performance

Slomp, Jannes; Molleman, Eric

doi:10.1080/00207540110098823

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“…Research in Germany and the Netherlands showed that a broadly skilled and adaptable labour force accords well with higher levels of technical complexity in construction processes (Clarke and Wall 2000). The effectiveness of multiskilling has been expounded in several research reports on labour resources and has also been observed from practical experience (Gomar et al 2002;Haas et al 2001;Piper and Liska 2000;Slomp and Molleman 2002;Tam et al 2001;Thomas and Horman 2002;Vidaković and Marić 2002). Multiskilling makes workers more competitive as they stay longer on a project; they can be utilized more flexibly including unforeseen maintenance activities and since multiskilled workers and crews have a broader variety of skills.…”

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Multiskilling in Construction ‐ a Strategy for Stable Employment

Lill

2009

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Abstract. After years of prosperity the construction industry is facing the current recession. This severely affects both construction companies and the workforce employed by them. The lack of skilled labour has always influenced construction outcomes, but, in the current economic environment, the problem is becoming more acute. The growth of unemployment among construction workers will cause additional social problems and does not alleviate the shortage of skilled craftsmen. A simulation model reflecting the performance of a construction firm is introduced. It enables the evaluation of different management strategies with consideration of the contradictory interests of owners, contractors and craftsmen in order to analyse the compromise and choose an appropriate solution for all parties.

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Section: Principles Of Specialisationmentioning

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Multiskilling in Construction ‐ a Strategy for Stable Employment

Lill

2009

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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“…It is obvious that not all workers perform the different tasks with the same efficiency. Actually, although workers from different categories may be able to perform a specific type of task, obviously certain categories frequently require more time than others do (Slomp and Molleman, 2002). However, none of AH published papers considers cross-trained workers with different efficiencies.…”

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“…Nowadays, cross-trained workers are an additional source of flexibility (Slomp andMolleman 2002, Corominas et al 2006), and most companies try to contract and train this kind of workers. It is obvious that not all workers perform the different tasks with the same efficiency.…”

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confidence: 99%

An exact procedure for planning holidays and working time under annualized hours considering cross-trained workers with different efficiencies

Lusa

Corominas

Pastor

2008

International Journal of Production Research

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Annualising working hours (AH) is a means of achieving flexibility in the use of human resources to face the seasonal nature of demand. Some existing planning procedures are able to minimise costs due to overtime and temporary workers. However, due to the great difficulty of solving the problem, it is normally assumed both that holiday weeks are fixed beforehand and that workers from different categories who are able to perform a specific type of task have the same efficiency. Often reality is different, thus, there is a gap between academic and real problems. In the present paper, those constraints are relaxed and a much more general and close to reality problem is solved in an exact and very efficient way.

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“…Their findings showed that a uniform distribution of workforce skill resulted better system performance and consequently each worker should master the same number of tasks. Later, Slomp and Molleman (2000) compared four cross-training policies based on the workload of the bottleneck worker in both static and dynamic circumstances. The results confirmed that better team performance can be expected by using higher levels of cross-training workers.…”

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Review evolution of cellular manufacturing system’s approaches: Human resource planning method

Delgoshaei¹,

Delgoshaei²,

Ali³

2019

10.5267/j.jpm

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This paper presents a review of human resource planning methods, related techniques, and their effects on cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). In-depth analysis has been conducted through a review of 43 dominant research papers available in the literature. The advantages, limitations, and drawbacks of material transferring methods have been discussed as well. The domains of the examined studies include some of the important problems in staff planning, such as worker assigning, hiring and firing, optimum number of workers, skilled workers, cross-functional experts, worker satisfaction and outsourcing. The results of this study can fill research gaps and clarify many related questions in CMS problems.

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Cross-training policies and team performance

Cited by 71 publications

References 42 publications

Multiskilling in Construction ‐ a Strategy for Stable Employment

Multiskilling in Construction ‐ a Strategy for Stable Employment

An exact procedure for planning holidays and working time under annualized hours considering cross-trained workers with different efficiencies

Review evolution of cellular manufacturing system’s approaches: Human resource planning method

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