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. 2023 Feb 28:1–28. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10479-023-05244-2

Table 1.

Result of Scenarios: (a) (A0-1) (A0-2) and (b) (S1, S2, S3)

(a) Scenarios (A0-1), (A0-2), personnel preferences’ rate of return (%) and fair assignation (a) results
HP: Hospital staff
P1f:PersonalNoFemale
P6m: PersonalNoMale
SS: Seniority score
NP: Number of preferences
SPM, BFM, GAM (%): Satisfaction rate of preferences
A0-1:
3 periods (8 h, 8 h, 8 h)
The work start time is selectable
The working hours is fixed
(40 h/W)
A0-2:
3 periods (8 h, 8 h, 8 h)
The start time is selectable
The Working hours is determinable
(from 24 h/W to 56 h/W)
Weekly work time Weekly work time
HP Age SS (h/W) NP SPM (%) BFM (%) GAM (%) (h/w) NP SPM (%) BFM (%) GAM (%)
P1f 25–29 50 40 5 60 80 75 24 3 0 33 33
P2f 25–29 50 40 5 25 80 60 24 3 0 33 67
P3f 30–34 55 40 5 60 80 75 24 3 0 33 67
P4f 35–39 60 40 5 80 80 60 32 4 75 75 100
P5f 40–50 65 40 5 80 60 60 32 4 75 75 50
P6m 25–29 50 40 5 50 75 60 40 5 25 60 20
P7m 25–29 50 40 5 20 80 80 48 6 20 60 50
P8m 30–34 55 40 5 80 60 80 40 5 80 50 75
P9m 35–39 60 40 5 80 60 60 48 6 100 60 80
P10m 40–45 75 40 5 80 60 60 32 4 75 75 100
P11m 45–55 80 40 5 80 60 80 32 4 75 75 67
P12m 55–65 80 40 5 80 75 60 32 4 75 75 75
x¯ 64.6 70.8 67.5 50 58.7 65.3
σ 22.3 9.7 9.4 37.6 17.6 24.1
(b) Scenarios (S1, S2, S3), personnel preferences' rate of return (%) and fair assignation (a) results
HP: Hospital staff
SS: Seniority score
WWT: Weekly working time (h/W)
NP: Number of preferences
SPM, BFM, GAM (%): Satisfaction rate of preferences
S1:
4 periods (6 h, 6 h, 6 h, 6 h)
The work start time is selectable
The Working hours is determinable
(from 24 h/W to 56 h/W)
S2:
5 periods (8 h, 5 h, 4 h, 3 h, 4 h)
The work start time is selectable
The Working hours is determinable
(from 24 h/W to 56 h/W)
S3:
6 period (4 h, 4 h, 4 h, 4 h, 4 h, 4 h)
The work start time is selectable
The Working hours is determinable
(from 24 h/W to 56 h/W)
HP Age SS (h/W) NP SPM (%) BFM (%) GAM (%) NP SPM (%) BFM (%) GAM (%) NP SPM (%) BFM (%) GAM (%)
P1f 25–29 50 24 4 25 75 75 5 50 80 50 6 0 67 40
P2f 25–29 50 24 4 0 50 100 5 17 60 40 6 0 50 50
P3f 30–34 55 24 4 75 50 50 5 40 60 80 6 83 50 60
P4f 35–39 60 32 5 100 80 40 7 86 71 100 8 88 63 50
P5f 40–50 65 32 5 100 80 80 7 86 50 71 8 88 63 50
P6m 25–29 50 40 7 43 57 71 10 55 89 78 10 44 60 60
P7m 25–29 50 45 8 50 63 86 10 20 78 67 11 55 64 92
P8m 30–34 55 40 7 71 71 71 9 67 60 44 10 90 78 67
P9m 35–39 60 45 8 100 100 100 10 100 100 73 11 100 100 92
P10m 40–45 75 32 5 100 80 40 7 86 43 43 8 88 88 88
P11m 45–55 80 32 5 100 80 80 7 100 50 63 8 88 88 88
P12m 55–65 80 32 5 100 60 60 7 86 57 63 8 88 88 88
X 72 70.5 71.1 66.1 66.5 64.3 67.7 71.6 68.8
a 34.9 14.9 20.4 24.9 17.3 17.8 35.3 16.4 19.6

For instance, explanations of the status of the personnel;

P1f: P1 Personnel No, f: Female; P6m: P6 Personnel No, m: Male

Seniority score(SS) (P1:50; The score 50 is a new worker or lowest in seniority, and 100 highest in seniority) (P1: 25 to 29 years) and weekly work time requests (WWT)

Staff Female: P1f, P2f, P3f, P4f, P5f, and Staff Male: P6m, P7m, P8m, P9m, P10m, P11m, P12m

12 staff are working in the hospital in total

x¯ : The arithmetic mean; σ : the standard deviation