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Competence-Oriented Recruitment of a Project Team Robust to Disruptions

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Selection of competent employees is one of the numerous factors that determine the success of a project. The literature describes many approaches that help decision makers to recruit candidates with the required skills. Only a few of them take into account the disruptions that can occur during the implementation of a project, caused by employee absenteeism, fluctuations in the duration of activities, etc. Collectively, what these approaches amount to is proactive planning of employee teams with redundant competences. Searching for competence frameworks robust to disruptions involves time-consuming calculations, which do not guarantee that an admissible solution will be found. In view of this, in the present study, we propose sufficient conditions, the fulfilment of which guarantees the existence of such a solution. By testing these conditions, one can determine whether there exists an admissible solution, i.e. whether it is at all worth searching for a robust competence framework. The possibilities of practical application of the proposed method are illustrated with an example.

The work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under research project no: 2019/33/N/HS4/00379.

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  1. Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland

    Eryk Szwarc & Grzegorz Bocewicz

  2. Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Izabela Nielsen

  3. Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Czesław Smutnicki

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  1. Department of Applied Informatics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand

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  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Information, University Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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  4. Department of Applied Informatics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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Szwarc, E., Nielsen, I., Smutnicki, C., Bocewicz, G. (2020). Competence-Oriented Recruitment of a Project Team Robust to Disruptions. In: Nguyen, N., Jearanaitanakij, K., Selamat, A., Trawiński, B., Chittayasothorn, S. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42058-1_2

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