PERSONNEL SCHEDULING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INVESTIGATION AND PROPOSAL

The focus of this study is the current state of personnel scheduling management systems in the Washington State Department of Transportation construction field offices. It is assumed that, although all of the field offices use some level of scheduling, there could be more effective and systematic and less reactive ways of doing personnel scheduling at this level. The study finds that the project engineers are scheduling under a variety of constraints and concerns that directly affect their ability to do long-range planning and respond quickly to short-range scheduling changes. In response to the findings, a unified personnel scheduling management system has been conceived, using patterns of scheduling already in existence at the field offices. Three design approaches are suggested that would fit into many of the field offices. Recommendations for implementation are also made, which are intended to ease the changeover into these proposed systems.

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• Authors:
  • Blau, Margaret E
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 11-24
• Monograph Title: Economics, finance, planning, and administration
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1229
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Management; Personnel management; Scheduling; State departments of transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Management systems
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00495106
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309048214
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 30 1990 12:00AM