주오일 근무제에 관한 연구

Abstract

The effectiveness of decision-making process based on the computer simulation technique rather than on an intuition or the "rule of thumb" is demonstrated. The probrem chosen is to decide whether a company should implement the five-day or not. The approach taken in this study is to develop a simulation model which can compare the advantages and disadvantages of the five-day workweek and the six-day workweek systems. Although a day is reduced in the five-day workweek it is assumed that the number of work hours in a week remains constant, that is the Saturdays work hours are distributed to Monday through Friday by making their work hours longer. Although there are many contributing factors in the development of a simulation model for the five-day workweek system, only two major aspects are considered in this study; the energy consumption aspect and the job efficiency aspect. Simulation experiments show that the five-day workweek saves a great deal of both oil and electricity costs, increases the degree of job satisfaction and decreases the rate of absenteeism compared with the six-day workweek.