Manpower Planning: How to Recruit, Retrain, Make Redundant, or Overman


Variables

Table 5.2 shows the variables that are used in this example.

Table 5.2: Variables

Variable Name

Interpretation

NumWorkers[worker,period]

Number of workers per period

NumRecruits[worker,period]

Number of recruited workers per period

NumRedundant[worker,period]

Number of workers made redundant per period

NumShortTime[worker,period]

Number of short-time workers per period

NumExcess[worker,period]

Number of excess workers per period

NumRetrain[i,j,period]

Number of workers retrained from i to j per period

NumDowngrade[i,j,period]

Number of workers downgraded from i to j per period