Title

Applying Decision Utility to Solve Problems with Limited Resources in Parks and Police Management

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

For quantitative scheduling techniques found in journals their wider use in applications has been declining by a variety of obstacles. This article will first list a number of these obstacles and then suggest ways to overcome them. Parks and Police departments are government agencies that both have limited and competing resources. In these circumstances, it is an ideal situation to share the resources as much as possible. In this paper I will show examples of where the limited resources may occur in both agencies, and how the manager may overcome these problems by sharing the resources. Examples of affective and just sharing of resources are given for both parks and police departments. In Parks Management, affective trade-offs are shown among trim mowing, tractor mowing, garbage collection and ball-field dragging. In Police departments affective trade-offs are shown among foot patrol, car patrol, detective analysis and office work.

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