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On the Determination of Occupational Categories in an Organization

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  • David S. Stoller

    (The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California)

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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.

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  • David S. Stoller, 1963. "On the Determination of Occupational Categories in an Organization," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 9(2), pages 337-340, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:9:y:1963:i:2:p:337-340
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.9.2.337
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