Work assignment to and qualification of multi-skilled human resources under knowledge depreciation and company skill level targets

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3759-3781

  Heimerl, Christian ^a   Kolisch, Rainer ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Learning; Multi skilled resources; Project staffing; Resource assignment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; CONTINUOUS MODELS; COST PARAMETERS; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOUR INTENSITY; LEARNING CURVES; OPTIMISATIONS; PROBLEM PARAMETERS; PROJECT WORK; RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT; SKILL LEVELS; WORK ASSIGNMENTS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL SELECTION; TARGETS;

DEPRECIATION;

EID: 77952653948     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540902852785     Document Type: Article

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