Staffing models

{{Short description|Information used to measure work activity}} '''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.<ref name="Media 2015"/>

==Overview== Staffing models provide: * A structure for staff scheduling<ref name="Nancy Bateman 2012"/> * Staff interactions<ref name="Nancy Bateman 2012"/> * Both a broad and in-depth picture of work activity,<ref name="Nancy Bateman 2012"/> 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.<ref name="Media 2015"/>

Time presentation curves have been used to guide staffing in the emergency department.<ref name="Lim 2020"/>

==See also== {{Portal|Business and economics}} * Job analysis * Salary inversion * Task analysis * Work sampling

== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Nancy Bateman 2012">{{cite book | last=Nancy Bateman | first=R.N.B.S.N. | title=The Business of Nurse Management: A Toolkit for Success | publisher=Springer Publishing Company | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-8261-5573-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fdp8o5zDMu0C&pg=PA15 | access-date=May 25, 2016 | page=15}}</ref> <ref name="Media 2015">{{cite web | last=Media | first=HIMSS | title=UPMC on designing cost-effective staffing models through predictive analytics | website=Healthcare Finance News | date=December 16, 2015 | url=https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/slideshow/designing-cost-effective-staffing-models-through-real-time-and-predictive-analytics | access-date=May 25, 2016}} </ref> <ref name="Lim 2020">{{cite journal |last1=Lim |first1=Andy |last2=Barua |first2=Raja |last3=Hong |first3=Wei |last4=Lim |first4=Alvin |title=Using the national time presentation curve to guide staffing |journal=Emergency Medicine Australasia |date=11 April 2020 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=532–533 |doi=10.1111/1742-6723.13509|pmid=32279442 |s2cid=215750997 }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== * {{cite book |author1=Cardon, Melissa S. |author2=Tolchinsky, Paul | title=Human Resource Strategies for the High Growth Entrepreneurial Firm | publisher=Information Age Pub. |chapter=To hire or not to hire? Implications of alternative staffing models for emerging organizations | series=Research in human resource management | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-930608-14-6 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sVmjhD76gUC&pg=PA69 | access-date=May 25, 2016 | pages=69–85}} * {{cite book | last1=Hunt | first1=T.C. | last2=Lasley | first2=T.J. | title=Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent | publisher=SAGE Publications | series=A Sage reference publication | issue=v. 1 | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-4129-5664-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b1UGM0CHOGAC&pg=PA274 | access-date=May 25, 2016 | pages=274–}} {{subscription required}} * {{cite news |last1=Dyrda |first1=Laura |title=50 things to know about hospital staffing |url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/50-things-to-know-about-hospital-staffing.html |work=Beckers Hospital Review |date=February 28, 2017 |language=en-gb}} * {{cite journal |last1=Aiken |first1=LH |last2=Clarke |first2=SP |last3=Sloane |first3=DM |last4=International Hospital Outcomes Research |first4=Consortium. |title=Hospital staffing, organization, and quality of care: cross-national findings. |journal=International Journal for Quality in Health Care |date=February 2002 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=5–13 |doi=10.1093/intqhc/14.1.5 |pmid=11871630|doi-access=free }} {{open access}} * [https://www.expert-select.com/ Personalvermittlung] (in German)  Category:Human resource management Category:Management systems