A Genetic Algorithm approach to a Workforce Planning problem: Applied to Erasmus MC

This thesis aimed to aid ErasmusMC in the workforce planning process of deciding how to implement training among the nursing personnel in order to build a more flexible workforce, so the hospital can be prepared for fluctuating and unexpected demand, while minimizing the costs of doing so.<br/><br/>To accomplish this, a mathematical model was...

Supporting Workforce Planning With a Simulation Based Tool

An organizations workforce is one of its most important strategic assets. Getting the right workforce at the right time is a very hard job in a constantly changing labor market. To make this job a little bit easier a workforce planning tool has been developed. This tool supports Human Resource Specialists with giving insight into how an...

Supporting Workforce Planning

The goal of this project is to develop a workforce planning tool. A workforce planning tool is a decision support system (Keen and Sol, 2008) that enables Accenture to make better informed and faster decisions about its future workforce. The workforce planning tool has been developed with a design science approach. This approach is an iterative...