The impact of overtime as a time-based proactive scheduling and reactive allocation strategy on the robustness of a personnel shift roster

Jonas Ingels () and Broos Maenhout ()
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Jonas Ingels: Ghent University
Broos Maenhout: Ghent University

Journal of Scheduling, 2018, vol. 21, issue 2, No 3, 143-165

Abstract: Abstract The workforce size and the overtime budget have an important impact on the total personnel costs of an organisation. Since the personnel costs represent a significant fraction of the operating costs, it is important to define an appropriate hiring and overtime policy. Overtime is defined as an extension of the daily working time or the total working time over the planning period. In this paper, we make the distinction between scheduled and unscheduled overtime when we define the overtime policy. Scheduled overtime is proactively assigned in the baseline personnel roster whereas unscheduled overtime is allocated as a reactive strategy to overcome operational disruptions. The hiring and overtime policy undoubtedly influence the robustness included in a personnel roster, i.e., the capability of an organisation to deal with roster disruptions at an acceptable cost. In this paper, we investigate the trade-off between the hiring budget and the overtime budget and the way overtime should be allocated in the personnel management process. The latter comprehends a trade-off between the proactive scheduling of overtime and the reservation of overtime to balance supply and demand in response to operational variability. Insights are obtained by exploring three different strategies to compose a personnel shift baseline roster. We verify the robustness of each of these strategies by applying a three-step methodology that thrives on optimisation and simulation and we formulate some managerial guidelines to define an appropriate hiring and overtime policy.

Keywords: Personnel scheduling; Robustness; Hiring policy; Proactive and reactive overtime policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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