Due Monday , January 14th

Head Nurse Appointments

Strategic
Resource
Allocation
and Planning
MGMT E-5050

Homework Assignment
The Assignment Algorithm

Head Nurse Assignments

The hospital administrator at St. Charles General must
appoint head nurses to four newly established departments: urology, cardiology, orthopedics, and obstetrics.
In anticipation of this staffing problem, she had hired 4
nurses: Hawkins, Condriac, Bardot, and Hoolihan.
Believing in the quantitative analysis approach to problem solving, the administrator has interviewed each
nurse, considered his or her background, personality,
and talents, and developed a cost scale ranging from
0 to 100 to be used in the assignment.

A 0 for Nurse Bardot being assigned to the cardiology

unit implies that she would be perfectly suited to that
task. A value close to 100 , on the other hand, would
imply that she is not at all suited to head that unit.

Head Nurse Assignments

The accompanying table gives the complete set of cost
figures that the hospital administrator felt represented
all possible assignments:

NURSE

Urology

Cardiology

Orthopedics

Obstetrics

Hawkins

28

18

15

75

Condriac

32

48

23

38

Bardot

51

36

24

36

Hoolihan

25

38

55

12

REQUIREMENT:
1. Which nurse should be assigned to each unit ?