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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED137587 AUTHOR: Burroughs, J. A.; And Others


TITLE: Demographic and Upward Mobility Considerations in
Using an Equal Employment Opportunity Model. Research
Report
No. 29.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 34 p.; Paper presented at the 1976 Joint National
Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America and
The Institute of Management Sciences (November 3-5, Miami,
Florida)

ABSTRACT: This paper extends previous numerical results of
the Flexible Equal Employment Opportunity (FEEO) model, a
goal programing model (developed by A. Charnes, W. W.
Cooper, K. A. Lewis, and R. J. Niehaus) consisting of
Markoff transition elements imbedded in a goal programing
framework with priorities that allow for element alteration
to provide the organizational flexibility (in policies of
promotion, recruitment, and training) necessary to achieve
long-range equal employment opportunity (EEO) goals while
still preserving the high priority of meeting the shorter
range day-to-day operating goals of the organization. In
the
first section of the paper EEO goal-setting procedures are
documented. Focus is on demographic considerations (making
goals realistic from the labor market point of view) and
upward mobility (consideration of affirmative action
policies for the internal staff). A second section provides
a numerical example with actual Navy data of the extended
version of the model through which internal promotion and
upward mobility considerations can be evaluated explicitly.
A discussion is then provided of the implementation and
continuing research possibilities. (JT)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Labor-Market;
Objectives-; Organizations-Groups; Personnel-Management;
Program-Development
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Demography-; *Equal-Opportunities-Jobs;
*Mathematical-Models; *Occupational-Mobility; *Personnel
Policy; *Policy-Formation

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