Article ID: | iaor19911503 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 295 |
End Page Number: | 303 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1990 |
Journal: | Engineering Costs and Production Economics |
Authors: | Gerchak Yigal, Parlar Mahmut, Sengupta S. Sankar |
Keywords: | learning |
Manpower planning models rarely incorporate effects of learning on production capacity. Here those effects are explored through some models. First, the authors discuss a discrete-time model in which capacity is maintained at a desired level through appropriate recruitment and layoffs. Then they propose a related continuous-time partial differential equation model, and derive the recruitment rate level which will maintain capacity. Some examples are provided.