Effective Resource Scheduling : A Primer for Organizational Efficiency

Effective management of resources is an essential task for companies that are managing different projects. It is important for them to efficiently organize and allocate personnel as well as equipment for different projects and tasks, same time avoiding idle resources. Having the information about the availability of the resource as well as having them available at the right time for the activities play a vital role in managing the costs and smoothly executing the project activities. This study makes an attempt to establish the overwhelming importance of resource scheduling to the achievement of organizational efficiency in operational activities. The objectives of the study are to: measure the efficiency of resource scheduling, evaluate the contribution of resource scheduling to operations and to establish how resource utilization can be maximized. The design employed for this study was that of the quantitative research design and data was collected from 50 respondents representing staff of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, Krishna Amul Parlour through a structured questionnaire. To examine the hypotheses of the study, cross-tabulation analysis, correlation analysis as well as chi-square test were employed as statistical tools for analysing the study variables. The findings of the study reveal that effective resource scheduling has the capacity to impact organizational output and operations positively hence must be a critical management tool. It is therefore recommended that in order to allocate the right resource for a specific activity, it is important to know whether the resource has the correct skill set to perform that particular task