On the Determination of Occupational Categories in an Organization

David S. Stoller
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David S. Stoller: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

Management Science, 1963, vol. 9, issue 2, 337-340

Abstract: Typically, a personnel assignment model is based on the assumption that n i persons of skill type i; i - 1, ..., k, are to be assigned over m j jobs requiring skill j; j - 1, ..., s, with a penalty score, d ij , for assigning a person of skill type i to a job requiring j. Then algorithms are sought for an assignment matrix, X - ||x ij ||, which minimizes \sum i,j x ij d ij , under certain constraints, where x ij is the number of persons of skill type i assigned to jobs of skill type j. An input to the problem, then is a determination, for a given organization, of the occupational categories, j - 1, ..., s, to which personnel will be assigned. This paper applies the problem to a repair organization. Before one can determine the number of repair men in an organization, among other factors, one must determine the number of their occupational categories.

Date: 1963
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