Showing papers on "Workforce published in 1977"
Journal Article•
TL;DR: A review of relevant research on successful occupational safety programs reveals a number of factors of particular consequence as discussed by the authors, such as workforce stability and personnel practices that promote such stability, stringent housekeeping and effective environmental controls, training emphasis on early indoctrination and follow-up instruction.
240 citations
TL;DR: The problem of scheduling days off in continuous seven-day-a-week operations under a variety of day-off policies, when demand for manpower is N on weekdays and n on weekend days, is examined.
Abstract: We examine the problem of scheduling days off in continuous seven-day-a-week operations under a variety of day-off policies, when demand for manpower is N on weekdays and n on weekend days. We consider a number of policies governing employee work assignments and in each case we give a formula for the minimum workforce size and a schedule construction algorithm.
82 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, employment data from the 1960 and 1970 censuses were organized using Holland's occupational classification to examine age, sex, and level differences in employment, and to detect changes over the 10-year period.
21 citations
TL;DR: In fact, under capitalism, which divides management from labour, advancing technology concentrates intelligence on the side of management and de-skills labour as mentioned in this paper, the combination of expanding education with contracting skill at work produces employees who are more, not less, educated than their jobs require, and who are less efficient because more dissatisfied.
Abstract: Summary The Great Debate began with a criticism of the education system: schools are failing to provide the increasingly skilled and intelligent workforce required by industry as it becomes more technological. In fact, under capitalism, which divides management from labour, advancing technology concentrates intelligence on the side of management and de‐skills labour. The combination of expanding education with contracting skill at work produces employees who are more, not less, educated than their jobs require, and who are less efficient because more dissatisfied. In this situation, the demand for a more educated workforce is in fact a demand for more discipline in the subordinate ranks of industry's political hierarchy. Education should accept the invitation to establish ‘closer links’ with industry, but must resist the cosmetic operation being planned.
8 citations
TL;DR: It is difficult to share Dr W B Wright's view that the confinement of doctors exclusively to an older group of patients would not provide the incentive for recruitment, but it is possible to provide an efficient geriatric service in all districts with the redistribution of existing resources.
Abstract: SIR,-It is difficult to share Dr W B Wright's view (30 July, p 315) that the confinement of doctors exclusively to an older group of patients would not provide the incentive for recruitment. Clearly there is no lack of incentive for recruitment of doctors to provide care exclusively to children (paediatrics). Some regions have already tried to make combined appointments, with some sessions in general medicine and most sessions devoted to geriatric medicine; this does not seem to have improved the situation significantly. It does not appear that Dr W E Bagnall and his colleagues (9 July, p 102) were advocating that the department of geriatric medicine should work \"in isolation.\" It seems that they are able to provide a comprehensive service which is not in isolation. This can be done with the facilities, including the siting of most geriatric beds in three general hospitals where all the work in \"acute\" specialties are carried out, and adequate staffing, including 13 full-time doctors for 433 beds, which are available to them. In addition they seem to have, good understanding and close co-operation from other clinical colleagues and administrators working in the same hospitals. There are also other units up and down the country which are providing efficient geriatric services and which have very similar facilities and staffing. With the redistribution of existing resources in the district, as recommended in the consultative document in 1976,1 the difficulties in recruitment could be overcome and consequently it should be possible to provide an efficient geriatric service in all districts.
8 citations
8 citations
Journal Article•
5 citations
01 May 1977
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01 Aug 1977
TL;DR: In this article, the proposed workforce goals system is comprised of a data base of workforce estimates combined with a generalized information retrieval system for examination and modification of the data base, and its use in conjunction with the Shore Activity Manpower Planning System, an aggregate modeling system of the goal programming variety, is explored.
Abstract: : Manpower management has been an issue of increasing concern to most large, complex organizations in recent years. Research organizations have particular difficulties in this area, due to technological changes and long project and training lead times. Government laboratories must deal, in addition, with Civil Service regulations and the dictates of Congress and the Office of Management and Budget. This paper explores several alternative workforce goals planning systems for use in the Naval Laboratory community. The Proposed workforce goals system is comprised of a data base of workforce estimates combined with a generalized information retrieval system for examination and modification of the data base. Its use in conjunction with Shore Activity Manpower Planning System, an aggregate modeling system of the goal programming variety, is explored. Possible management uses of the workforce goals planning system, with examples of appropriate reports, are discussed. Immediate research issues such as the organizational impact of introducing such systems, and future research issues including integrated and conversational applications, are discussed in the final section. (Author)
2 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: Dawes and Davies as discussed by the authors proposed a simple statistically-based graphical procedure to aid safety committees in making such comparisons, which can be used to indicate whether the number of accidents during a particular period in the workforce under consideration is greater than, less than or not different from that which would be expected if the workforce had been exposed to a level of hazard represented by a particular, assumed, accident rate.