Maintaining a grade or age structure in a stochastic environment
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability
- Vol. 9 (1) , 1-17
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1425813
Abstract
Grade and age structures in manpower systems are often far from ideal. This fact raises the question of how the flows of people — and particularly the recruitment flow — should be controlled in order to attain and maintain a more desirable structure. The problem has received considerable attention from a deterministic point of view. This paper adopts a stochastic approach to the study of maintainability and shows, among other things, that the problem is more subtle than the deterministic analysis suggests.Keywords
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