Multi-Project Management with a Multi-Skilled Workforce - A Quantitative Approach Aiming at Small Project Teams

This book covers three fundamental problems at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management: the selection of projects, the composition of small project teams, and workload leveling. Matthias Walter proposes optimization models and solution methods for these problems, assuming multi-skilled workers with heterogeneous skill levels. For the first time, the author presents exact and heuristic methods that support managers to form small teams. Additionally, he outlines a new skill chaining strategy that increases workforce flexibility.

List of contents

Multi-Skilled Workers and Flexibility Design.- Project Selection, Workforce Assignment, and Utilization Leveling.- Optimization Models and Complexity Analysis.- Solution Methods and their Numerical Analysis.

About the author

Dr. Matthias Walter wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmermann at the Operations Research Group at Clausthal University of Technology.

Summary

This book covers three fundamental problems at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management: the selection of projects, the composition of small project teams, and workload leveling. Matthias Walter proposes optimization models and solution methods for these problems, assuming multi-skilled workers with heterogeneous skill levels. For the first time, the author presents exact and heuristic methods that support managers to form small teams. Additionally, he outlines a new skill chaining strategy that increases workforce flexibility.

Product details

• Authors: Matthias Walter
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783658080358
• ISBN: 978-3-658-08035-8
• No. of pages: 301
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 221 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 515 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 301 p. 23 illus.
• Series: Produktion und Logistik; Springer Gabler; Produktion und Logistik
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Operations Research, B, Planning, Human Resource Management, Organization, Business and Management, Organizational theory & behaviour, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel Management, Management decision making, Management science, Decision Making