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Successful Hospital Personnel Scheduling

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  • Joe D. Megeath

    (Chairman, Department of Computer & Management Science, Metropolitan State College, 1006 11th Street, Denver, Colorado 80204)

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The practice of Management Science involves the search for a solution, or improvement, to a particular problem. All too often, though, Management Science is taken to be the application of sophisticated Management Science tools.This paper describes a situation in which a nonquantitative person with a problem, three students of Management Science, and one faculty member, were reminded of the above principle.The scheduling of shift-personnel is an on-going problem over a wide range of functions. In many of these cases, a “quick-and-dirty” method can be applied instead of sophisticated, computer-based models. The procedure described in this paper saves one man-week of effort during each planning period, with no increase in computer use or hardware.

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  • Joe D. Megeath, 1978. "Successful Hospital Personnel Scheduling," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 8(2), pages 55-60, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:8:y:1978:i:2:p:55-60
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.8.2.55
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