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Integrating workers' differences into workforce planning

delete2012-12-01
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Mohammed Othman *
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Nadia Bhuiyan
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Gerard J. Gouw
DOI:10.1016/j.cie.2012.06.015delete
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In today's competitive market, manufacturers need to work hard towards improving their production system performance in order to satisfy customer demands. In such a situation, most companies develop production systems that can help in quality improvement, cost reduction and throughput time reduction. In this research, we consider a workforce planning (WP) model including some human aspects such as skills, training, and workers' personalities and motivation. A multi-objective non-linear programming model is developed in order to minimize the hiring, firing, training and overtime costs and minimize the number of fired most productive workers. The purpose is to determine the number of workers for each worker type, the number of workers trained, and the number of overtime hours. Moreover, a decision support system (DSS) based on the proposed model is introduced using the Excel-LINGO software interfacing feature. The results indicate that the proposed model can provide a promising workforce planning approach to easily apply it in practice. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Decision support system
Ergonomics
Human factors
Production planning
Workforce planning

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Computers and Industrial Engineering cover
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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6.5
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concordia university - canada
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