Staffing models explained

Staffing models are related sets of reports, charts and graphs that are used to precisely measure work activity, determine how many labor hours are needed, analyze how employee time is spent and calculate costs. Staffing models are used in the healthcare industry and use predictive analytics methods for forecasting.

Overview

Staffing models provide:

• A structure for staff scheduling
• Staff interactions
• Both a broad and in-depth picture of work activity, and its time and cost
• Information about current resource and process performance
• Information and tools to manage and improve staffing resource performance.

Staffing models are also used to reduce overtime costs.

Time presentation curves have been used to guide staffing in the emergency department.

See also

• Job analysis
• Salary inversion
• Task analysis
• Work sampling

Further reading

• Book: Cardon, Melissa S. . Tolchinsky, Paul . Human Resource Strategies for the High Growth Entrepreneurial Firm . Information Age Pub. . To hire or not to hire? Implications of alternative staffing models for emerging organizations . Research in human resource management . 2006 . 978-1-930608-14-6 . https://books.google.com/books?id=6sVmjhD76gUC&pg=PA69 . May 25, 2016 . 69–85.
• Book: Hunt . T.C. . Lasley . T.J. . Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent . SAGE Publications . A Sage reference publication . v. 1 . 2010 . 978-1-4129-5664-2 . May 25, 2016 . 274–.
• News: Dyrda . Laura . 50 things to know about hospital staffing . Beckers Hospital Review . February 28, 2017 . en-gb.
• Aiken . LH . Clarke . SP . Sloane . DM . International Hospital Outcomes Research . Consortium. . Hospital staffing, organization, and quality of care: cross-national findings. . International Journal for Quality in Health Care . February 2002 . 14 . 1 . 5–13 . 10.1093/intqhc/14.1.5 . 11871630. free .
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