Proactive Operations Management: Staff Allocation with Competence Maintenance Constraints

Eryk Szwarc, Grzegorz Bocewicz (), Paulina Golińska-Dawson and Zbigniew Banaszak
Additional contact information
Eryk Szwarc: Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, ul. Śniadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland
Grzegorz Bocewicz: Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, ul. Śniadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland
Paulina Golińska-Dawson: Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznań University of Technology, ul. Jacka Rychlewskiego 2, 60-965 Poznań, Poland
Zbigniew Banaszak: Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, ul. Śniadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: Highly qualified staff are the key to successful operations management in any organization. In this paper, the emphasis is put on the problem of planning the rotational assignment of work tasks to a multi-skilled staff to guarantee maintaining their competencies at the required level. The aim of this study is to propose a novel declarative model for proactive planning of staff allocation whilst taking into account the forgetting effect. Sufficient conditions are proposed that allow for the cyclical rotation of employees between different tasks in order to keep their competencies at a constant level. The numerical experiments prove that the presented approach allows for finding a trade-off between a robustness to absenteeism and maintaining staff competency levels. The proposed method is suitable for human resource-related decision making in an interactive mode.

Keywords: proactive planning; workers assignment; competence maintenance; robustness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/3/1949/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/3/1949/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:3:p:1949-:d:1041616

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().