Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T11:04:27.539Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The control of a grade structure in a stochastic environment using promotion control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

D. J. Bartholomew
D. J. Bartholomew*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
*
∗Postal address: The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, U.K.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

In an earlier paper (Bartholomew (1977)) the problem of maintaining a grade (or age) structure by controlling the recruitment flows was discussed. Here we carry out a parallel analysis for the case where control is by promotion. We show how to calculate the probability that a structure can be maintained and investigate the performance of several strategies for keeping a structure as near as possible to that desired. As before, the results demonstrate the limitations of a deterministic analysis of the problem.

Keywords

ATTAINABILITYCONTROLGRADE STRUCTUREMAINTAINABILITYMANPOWER PLANNINGMARKOV CHAINSMULTIVARIATE NORMAL INTEGRALPROMOTION POLICIESSTOCHASTIC MODELS
Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 1979 , pp. 603 - 615
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1979 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bartholomew, D. J. (1973) Stochastic Models for Social Processes, 2nd edn. Wiley, Chichester.Google Scholar
Bartholomew, D. J. (1977) Maintaining a grade or age structure in a stochastic environment. Adv. Appl. Prob. 9, 1–17.Google Scholar
Milton, R. C. (1972) Computer evaluation of the multivariate normal integral. Technometrics 14, 881–889.Google Scholar