Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Also available in print.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Mathematics / Master / Master of Philosophy

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / This thesis developed a deterministic Markov state model to provide the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps a tool to more accurately forecast recruiting goals and future years force structure. Nurse Corps data was provided by the Nurse Corps Community Manager's office covering fiscal years 1990 to 2003. The probabilities used in the Markov model were derived from the fiscal year data. Transitions used in this model were stay at present grade, move up one grade or exit the system. Backward movement was not allowed and individuals could only move up one grade per year. The model was limited to eleven years and focused primarily on the ranks of O-1 to O-3. O-4's and O-5's that appeared in the data were allowed to flow through the system. Logistic regression was then used to investigate the probability of "staying" in the Nurse Corps to certain career decision points. Nurse Corps cohort data files for fiscal years 90 through 94 were merged for analysis, as was cohort data for fiscal year 96 through 98. Results of the markov model show that the O-1's and O-2's reach a steady state at the eight-year mark while the O-3's reach a steady state at the seventeen-year mark (based on provided data). The steady state values are compared to actual Nurse Corps goals. Results of the logistic regression show that Recalls, Medical Enlisted Commissioning Program and Nurse Candidate Program were all significant at increasing the probability of staying in the Nurse Corps. Males were more likely than females to stay in the Nurse Corps and changes in education levels decreased the probability of staying in the Nurse Corps. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

M.Com. (Economics) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

This thesis is about solving the manpower planning problem concerning stangand transitioning of pilots. The objective of the planning is to have enoughpilots to satisfy the demand while minimizing the cost. The main decisions totake are how many pilots to hire, which pilots to train and which courses toschedule. The planning problems that arise are both large and dicult whichmakes it important to use ecient solution methods. Seniority rules betweenpairs of pilots are the most complicating factor.A major part in the solution process is the solving of mixed integer programs.The emphasis in the thesis is to develop and test adaptations of the branch andbound algorithm to solve mixed integer programs faster. One of these is abranching principle that takes a problem specic structure into account. Agraph of implications is constructed from the seniority rules and this graph isthen used to estimate the impact of each branching candidate. The implementedmethods outperform the software XPRESS on some instances, while for mostinstances the performance is comparable.

¡@In recent years, the industry environment has been affected by the globalization and the dramatic changes of industrial competition, thus the enterprises, considering cost, flexibility and speed, show a yearly rising employment rate of foreign workers in Taiwan and some of them even reach the top limit. In addition, they gradually stop employing full-time or long-term workers, but start to employ the outsourced and dispatched personnel. As a result, the traditional employment relationships are confronted with challenges. According to the survey issued by CHEER magazine in April, 2004, more than 12% enterprises possess 10~20% contract-based employees of their total staff, and in the future more than 35% enterprise will continue to enlarge the scale of contract-based employees. Hence, the long-term official employment relationship is no longer the only choice, the enterprises tend to use multiple and flexible employment modes. ¡@¡@From 2008 to now, after experienced the financial crisis, have the enterprises added the application of flexible manpower employment strategies, or examined and adjusted their current flexible employment strategies? Therefore, the study further explores the current situation of enterprises¡¦ application of flexible employment strategies. ¡@¡@This study hopes to utilize the interview to collect the enterprises¡¦ current situation of flexible manpower employment, application reasons and effectiveness, as well as the relevant management regulations and practical operations derived from the application of flexible manpower employment in the enterprises, so as to explore the influences of flexible manpower employment strategies on the enterprises. Finally, it can be served as references for the enterprises of different fields to utilize the flexible manpower employment and the government to draft relative policies and labor laws in the future. ¡@¡@From the interview data, the flexible manpower mainly takes charge of the peripheral work like administrative support and elementary manufacturing or service works. However, it is extraordinary that the enterprises related to credit cards of financial service sector often employ the dispatched manpower, or assign the core business to the atypical employees. ¡@¡@As for the reasons for applying flexible employment, taking cost into consideration, serving as bridge to employ the regular workers are the primary. The benefits of flexible employment strategies are mainly shown in the cost reduction in welfare, training and recruiting and the flexibility of personnel application. During the financial crisis of 2008 when the case company conducted the organizational adjustment and downsizing, it primarily controlled and downsized the dispatched manpower by means of non-renewal of contracts upon labor termination or early termination of contract. However, it didn¡¦t downsize all the dispatched personnel but reserved the excellent ones. In addition, the regular workers without an outstanding performance were also handled. Moreover, the issues faced by dispatching companies such as high labor turnover rate, hard to recruit, low personnel quality, and unable to recruit the excellent personnel are also the important subjects to be faced and solved for the enterprises.

Abstract The research of this project is to discuss the governmental enterprise¡¦s employee reaction when they are face the extremely change of the governmental company to become the privation. In this privatization process, the company have used the enterprise¡¦s re-engineering and change the human resource planning to fit the privatization. The object of this research is the Refinery Business Unit (RBU) of Chinese petroleum corp., the biggest governmental enterprise belongs to the Ministry of the Economic Affairs. In order to strengthen their competition, the Chinese Petroleum Corp. established the Refinery Business Unit at the end of the year 2000. They try to simplify and consolidate the organization and reorganize functional organization to business unit. The main purpose is hope that will be change the organizational culture, reduce the working process and revolute the employees mental. It also wish that re-engineering process which by through simplified the administrative levels and rationalized the human resources planning would produce enterprise¡¦s operation efficiently. The researcher is working in the Chinese Petroleum Corp. and have experienced in the establishment of RBU. After fully understanding the response of various levels of the employees to the human resource planning in this re-engineering process, he make the conclusion of the research is as following: 1. There is no significant difference among employees with different attributes against ¡§Manpower Transfer Planning¡¨. 2. There is no significant difference among employees with different attributes against ¡§Strengthening of Manpower Employment¡¨. 3. There is significant positive correlation between Manpower Transfer Planning and Strengthening of Manpower Employment as expressed by employees of different attributes. 4. Empirical outcomes of employees of different attributes toward the impact of Manpower Transfer Planning and Strengthening of Manpower Employment are: a. The manpower transfer and core manpower have significant positive impact. b. There is significant positive impact of human resources supply and demand adjustment and core manpower. c. There is significant positive impact of Manpower Supply and Demand Adjustment and manpower subject to transfer. d. There is significant positive impact of Manpower Supply and Demand Adjustment and Manpower to be developed.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Anke Richter, Stephen Mehay. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91). Also available online.

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