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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"overtime"”.
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What methods of overtime distribution might yield better performance for governmentally managed organization
… This Bachelor project will analyze methods of overtime distribution that might yield better performance for the governmentally managed institution on the example of overtime distribution data from Equity Department‟s: kitchen, dining, storage and dishwashing sub departments (ELM). Various ideas …
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Improving Patient Satisfaction through Reducing Nurse Overtime and Redesigning Nurse Staffing and Scheduling
<p>Increasing cardiac device patient demands within a large Midwest healthcare institution resulted in significant increases in staff shift requirements and corresponding patient complaints. The quality improvement project aimed to decrease patient complaints by executing a standard baseline daily …
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Mathematical Models and Genetic Algorithm Approaches to Simultaneously Perform Workforce Overtime Capacity Planning and Schedule Cells
… usual scheduling problems in that we compute overtime requirements and make scheduling decisions simultaneously. Since having tardy jobs is not desirable, overtime work is allowed to minimize the number tardy jobs or total tardiness. Two different problems are considered; Problem1, to maximize …
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Absenteeism prediction and labor force optimization in rail dispatcher scheduling
… because every absence must be filled through overtime or a qualified extra dispatcher. One factor that complicates this problem is the uncertainty of unplanned employee absences. The ability to predict unplanned absences would facilitate effective scheduling of extra dispatchers and help …
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Simulation Optimization Of Operating Room Schedules For Elective Orthopaedic Surgeries
… with the goal of minimizing the amount of overtime incurred. While surgical durations cannot always be perfectly estimated and vary by procedure and surgeon, we propose an approach that relies on leveraging the stochastic nature of surgical durations to simulate each operating day and …
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Operational efficiency through resource planning optimization and work process improvement
… processes dealing with granting and approval of overtime, productivity tracking, data collection, and imperfect alignment of incentives make it difficult to get the best work from the crews. These issues lead to high levels of overtime at yards, which are the major source of costs for gas …
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Transit extraboard operator scheduling
… way to cover the open work is through operator overtime. Therefore, a central challenge of the extraboard planning problem lies in the uncertainty of the amount of the work that will need to be covered, as well as the extent of operators' willingness to work overtime. Due to the critical …
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Applying factory physics to manual assembly at an aerospace fabrication site
… high variability in cycle times, high use of overtime, and poor ontime performance. The value provided by the system to Boeing and its customers is characterized by considering the associated costs of late delivery, inventory, labor, and opportunity cost. To understand the system's …
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Optimal capacity adjustment for supply chain control
… adjustment to aggregate capacity, (b) using overtime and making adjustment to the level of aggregate physical capacity, and (c) making adjustments to the levels of worker- and production-line-limited capacity. For aggregate capacity planning, the optimal structure is a capacity band whose …
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Associations between friends' responses during problem talk and emotional adjustment
… problem talk predicted depressive symptoms overtime. Early and mid-adolescents (N = 314 friend dyads) were observed discussing a problem with a close friend and reported on depressive symptoms at the time of observation and nine months later. Adolescents' responses were coded according to …
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Optimal scheduling and resource utilization for repetitive construction projects
… reducing the project duration and the use of overtime. The main goal of this study is to present the development of novel models for optimizing the scheduling of repetitive construction projects that is capable of accomplishing these planning objectives. To achieve this goal, the research …
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Modeling drug substance purification manufacturing through schedule optimization and simulation
This thesis develops a method by which overtime could be reduced in a highly variable drug substance purification manufacturing environment. Purification production overtime (20%) is a big cost driver at Building XX1 (BXX). Current production planning and labor resource evaluation methods at BXX …
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Innovative Approach to New Nurse Residency, Meaningful Use and Health Care Reform
… nurse (RN) travelers, RN registry and RN overtime with new graduate RNs. Newly graduated RNs are often viewed by hospital administrators as a more costly staffing resource. This project contributes knowledge regarding the potential cost savings with the utilization of a centralized float …
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Improving Performance of Open Access Clinics
… with long waits, long idle time and long overtime due to uncertainties such as patient no-shows, variable service time and variable daily demand. These aspects have not been studied previously in an open access setting. This study investigates different management options to improve …
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The Relationship of Leadership Style and Organizational Climate to Job Burnout Levels Among Taiwan Public Secondary-School Teachers
… size more than 40 students and average 8 hours overtime a week, a majority of teachers experience moderate burnout levels and only 8% experience a high burnout level. In the multiple regression model, Personal Dignity, Age, Consideration, Overtime, and Gender are associated with Emotional …
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STANDARDIZATION OF SHIFT REPORT BY IMPLEMENTING A NURSING REPORT SHEET AND ADDRESSING PATIENT VALUES TO MEET PATIENT NEEDS
… to improve patient satisfaction scores. However, overtime did not decline. Rather, overtime increased as a result of the health system implementing a new electronic health record.</p>
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Amphetamines and Western Australian detainees: A social profile
… between the three main sections had occurred overtime (1999-2006). Results showed detainees’ amphetamine use increased during the ‘heroin drought’. The profile demographic of detainee amphetamine users showed some significant changes overtime; a majority were male, aged between 18 to 34 years, …
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Reducing variations in a highly constrained environment in order to increase production capacity
… in variability will cause excessive inventory, overtime costs, unacceptable service levels, high production costs, and large lead times. This research reduces these variabilities by isolating each cause of variability and placing standard work around it, such as SOPs. Once isolated and …
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Readiness for improving safe care delivery through web-based hospital nurse scheduling & staffing technology: A multi-hospital approach
… staffing ratios. These demands may lead to overtime utilization. There is a growing understanding of the negative effects of healthcare worker fatigue on patient outcomes (IOM, 2004; Stimpfel & Aiken, 2013). The impending nursing shortage has the potential to exacerbate the problem of high …
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A Methodology Incorporating Manufacturing System Capacity in Manufacturing Cost Estimation
… more accurately represent true factors such as overtime and material handling.</p><p>This thesis describes a methodology to incorporate system capacity in cost estimation. Ideal manufacturing costs, widely used as a standard for production cost estimation, incorporates only material and labor …
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