Software System for Modeling Jobs and People Characteristics to Help Optimize Individual and Organizational Objectives; Conference paper

摘要

There is a critical need for the development of a general utility software package which would permit both policy capturing and policy specifying analyses through modeling of individual people characteristics and job properties (work states). Such software should be functional at multiple levels of abstraction: at an operational level, for person-job matching, and at an organizational planning level for executive assessment of alternative strategies for mission accomplishment or adaptation to changes. Planners and decision-makers need to be able to evaluate optimal ways of allocating available people to existing or anticipated work, and individuals need to order their preferences based on available or expected work and possible training. The needed software system would extend traditional person-job match technology to become a multi-level simulation and analysis system which could be potentially very useful in fuzzy budgeting or programming, and in planning for military to civilian conversions (individuals, units, bases, etc.). We strongly advocate an expeditious research & development effort for the design and tryout of such a software system.