A case study of cost-efficient staffing under annualized hours

Egbert Veen (), Erwin Hans, Bart Veltman, Leo Berrevoets and Hubert Berden

Health Care Management Science, 2015, vol. 18, issue 3, 279-288

Abstract: We propose a mathematical programming formulation that incorporates annualized hours and shows to be very flexible with regard to modeling various contract types. The objective of our model is to minimize salary cost, thereby covering workforce demand, and using annualized hours. Our model is able to address various business questions regarding tactical workforce planning problems, e.g., with regard to annualized hours, subcontracting, and vacation planning. In a case study for a Dutch hospital two of these business questions are addressed, and we demonstrate that applying annualized hours potentially saves up to 5.2% in personnel wages annually. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Annualized hours; Mixed-integer linear programming; Contract-mix and skill-mix planning; Staff capacity allocation; Workforce capacity allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10729-014-9292-0

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