Question

Sweet Tooth Inc. is experiencing growing demand for its new line of candy and needs to add a new production line of 50 workers. You are the company's newly hired vice president of human resources. Your first task is to develop a staffing plan for this new production line. The company's historical staffing yields for its production line positions are as follows The cruits during a recruiting drive. company's average recruiter can process 100 re- The company's staffing timeline the last time it hired production line employees is given in Figure 5-8 Questions 1. How many people should Sweet Tooth recruit for its .20 percent of applicants are invited for interviews. 80 percent of interview invitations are accepted. 50 new assembly-line jobs? 2. Using workload-driven forecasting, how many recruiters 15 percent of the people interviewed are extended job are needed for the staffing effort? offers. 3. How longake to staff the new production line? .50 percent of the people receiving job offers accept them ApplicationInterview Job Offer Extended → Job Offer Accepted → Begin Prejob Training 4 days7 days+ days4 days FIGURE 5-8 Sweet Tooth Inc.'s Staffing Timeline

Answer 1

1.Let the no. of people to be recruited be “x”.

Thus people invited for interviews = 0.2x. (20%).

No. of people accepting interview invitations = 80% of 0.2x = 0.16x

No. of people being extended job offers = 15% of 0.16x = 0.024x

No. of people receiving job offers = 50% of 0.024x = 0.012x

Thus 0.012x = 50

Or x = 50/0.012 = 4,166.67. This will be rounded off to 4,167.

2. No. of recruiters = 4166.67/100 = 41.67. This will be rounded off to 42.

3. Time that will be taken to staff the new production line (in days) = 14 days+7 days+7days+14 days = 42 days