Article ID: | iaor1988965 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 489 |
End Page Number: | 494 |
Publication Date: | May 1989 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Mukherjee S.P., Chattopadhyay A.K. |
Consider an organization with several categories of staff, each having a specified number of members. The age of entry into service and the age of retirement are both specified. Withdrawals occur at time-independent rates. Under this set-up the authors have computed the maximum ages at which promotions should take place, assuming that the staff members continuing at various ages are random. Some illustrative calculations have been carried out.