Manpower Planning in Hierarchical Organizations: A Computer Simulation Approach

A complex system model is presented here as a tool for corporate manpower planning. This approach permits representation of the interrelationships between the behavior of individuals as entities, personnel policy decisions, the labor market, and a large number of individual and organizational outcomes. A computer simulation of the model in the context of a managerial and professional hierarchy is described and tested against hypotheses from the managerial and behavioral science literature. The implications of the results of these tests for the usefulness of this approach for manpower planning and other purposes are discussed.

• 저널Management Science · 18(3) · 119–144
• 토픽Complex Systems and Decision Making · Management Science and Operations Research
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.18.3.119
• 저자W Weber