Optimal operator assignment and cell loading in labor-intensive manufacturing cells
CIE '96 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Using Belbin's leadership role to improve team effectiveness: an empirical investigation
Journal of Systems and Software
Finding a team of experts in social networks
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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Throughout much of the past century, manufacturing efficiencies were gained by constructing systems from independently designed and optimized tasks. Recent theories and practice have extolled the virtues of team-based practices that rely on human flexibility and empowerment to improve integrated system performance. The formation of teams requires consideration of innate tendencies and interpersonal skills as well as technical skills. In this project we develop and test mathematical models for formation of effective human teams. Team membership is selected to ensure sufficient breadth and depth of technical skills. In addition, measures of worker conative tendencies are used along with empirical results on desirable team mix to form maximally effective teams. A mathematical programming formulation for the team selection problem is presented. A heuristic solution is proposed and evaluated.