Abstract: With contract period considered, an investigation is conducted on manpower planning for multi-type staff collaboration environment. In customized equipment making companies, there are often multiple types of staffs with different working efficiencies. This situation is even further complicated by the working groups with master-apprentice constraints. Thus, in planning the manpower for such a complicated situation, it needs to consider not only the staffs salaries and employment/unemployment costs, but also the technique inheriting and employee stability. For such a problem, a dynamic planning model which reflects staffs employing and working types is developed. With this model, it can find a satisfactory configuration of human resources. A case problem is used to show the application of the proposed method.

Key words:  equipment manufacturing company, manpower planning, master-apprentice constraints