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Efficient scheduling of part-time employees

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  • Vakharia, AJ
  • Selim, HS
  • Husted, RR

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A staff scheduling model and heuristic procedure is proposed to aid in developing schedules for part-time employees. The model and heuristic method explicitly incorporates employee time preferences (i.e. times at which the employees are available to work) as well as employee wages in developing a weekly work schedule. Data collected from a local restaurant and a computer lab is used to validate and illustrate the model. The results show that the use of the model considerably simplifies the task of the restaurant/lab manager in developing weekly work schedules. Further, this application also demonstrates the trade offs between the "benefits" of maximizing employee satisfaction versus minimizing the costs of employee wages.

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  • Vakharia, AJ & Selim, HS & Husted, RR, 1992. "Efficient scheduling of part-time employees," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 201-213, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jomega:v:20:y:1992:i:2:p:201-213
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    Cited by:

    1. Dimitris Bertsimas & Romy Shioda, 2003. "Restaurant Revenue Management," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 51(3), pages 472-486, June.
    2. Thompson, Gary M. & Pullman, Madeleine E., 2007. "Scheduling workforce relief breaks in advance versus in real-time," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 181(1), pages 139-155, August.
    3. Knust, Sigrid & Schumacher, Elisabeth, 2011. "Shift scheduling for tank trucks," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 39(5), pages 513-521, October.

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