A skilled, competent, and motivated nursing workforce is crucial for a well-functioning health care system. Nurses' professional activities done on a regular basis, their workload, and occupancy are related to the patient's health status, dependence level and care needs. Therefore, managing...

A skilled, competent, and motivated nursing workforce is crucial for a well-functioning health care system. Nurses' professional activities done on a regular basis, their workload, and occupancy are related to the patient's health status, dependence level and care needs. Therefore, managing...

Capacity planning for large-scale systems like mainframe installations is typically based on rather coarse historical workload data. Hence, it is advisable to employ techniques and tools that use the same macroscopic (high-level) view of the overall system. We follow the classic approach known...

Capacity planning for large-scale systems like mainframe installations is typically based on rather coarse historical workload data. Hence, it is advisable to employ techniques and tools that use the same macroscopic (high-level) view of the overall system. We follow the classic approach known...

We study the impact of physician workload on hospital reimbursement utilizing a detailed data set from the trauma department of a major urban hospital. We find that the proportion of patients assigned a "high-severity" status for reimbursement purposes, which maps, on average, to a 47.8% higher...

Many large organizations own and occupy extensive, complex and varied property estates, which are essential to their business. Continued reliance on these resources often requires considerable annual expenditure on maintenance, alterations, refurbishment and small-scale new building works. Such...

This paper focuses on the management dimension of small building works. The paper presents a subset of findings from a major research study, supported by governmental and industry based sources, which investigated the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement methods, organizational systems...