MULTIPLE-SHIFT WORKFORCE SCHEDULING UNDER THE 3-4-WORKWEEK WITH DIFFERENT WEEKDAY AND WEEKEND LABOR REQUIREMENTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: HUNG, R
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.40.2.280
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 280-284
• 关键词: workforce scheduling; shift work; NOVEL SCHEDULES

摘要

Novel workweek arrangements have gained acceptance in many seven-days-a-week operations, such as hospitals and data processing centers. This note considers a multiple-shift workforce scheduling scenario for seven-days-a-week operations under a workweek arrangement called the 3-4 workweek. Our model seeks to minimize the workforce size subject to satisfying staffing requirements and workrules relating to off-days, off-weekends, and work-stretches. We provide an efficient optimal algorithm which is intuitive and simple enough to be implemented by hand.