Successful Hospital Personnel Scheduling

Joe D. Megeath
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Joe D. Megeath: Chairman, Department of Computer & Management Science, Metropolitan State College, 1006 11th Street, Denver, Colorado 80204

Interfaces, 1978, vol. 8, issue 2, 55-60

Abstract: The practice of Management Science involves the search for a solution, or improvement, to a particular problem. All too often, though, Management Science is taken to be the application of sophisticated Management Science tools.This paper describes a situation in which a nonquantitative person with a problem, three students of Management Science, and one faculty member, were reminded of the above principle.The scheduling of shift-personnel is an on-going problem over a wide range of functions. In many of these cases, a “quick-and-dirty” method can be applied instead of sophisticated, computer-based models. The procedure described in this paper saves one man-week of effort during each planning period, with no increase in computer use or hardware.

Date: 1978
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