Aspects of Manpower Planning at a Dutch University, an Example of Aggregation and Decomposition Methods in Manpower Planning

摘要

The choice of the categories for the medium term manpower planning in an organization is considered in a system with a simple personnel structure, consisting of two function groups on different hierarchical levels. An example of such a system is the research and teaching staff of a university, when only the two lowest function groups are considered. In this system the question can be posed whether two or more categories have to be distinguished for the medium term manpower planning or whether it is sufficient to distinguish one aggregate category. If two or more categories are distinguished, another question is which relationships between the categories are important for the medium term manpower planning. Simulation experiments with aggregation and decomposition methods show that model choice depends on costs.