Efficient scheduling of part-time employees

Aj Vakharia, Hs Selim and Rr Husted

Omega, 1992, vol. 20, issue 2, 201-213

Abstract: A staff scheduling model and heuristic procedure is proposed to aid in developing schedules for part-time employees. The model and heuristic method explicitly incorporates employee time preferences (i.e. times at which the employees are available to work) as well as employee wages in developing a weekly work schedule. Data collected from a local restaurant and a computer lab is used to validate and illustrate the model. The results show that the use of the model considerably simplifies the task of the restaurant/lab manager in developing weekly work schedules. Further, this application also demonstrates the trade offs between the "benefits" of maximizing employee satisfaction versus minimizing the costs of employee wages.

Keywords: scheduling; multiple; criteria; programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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