Günter Fandel

Redistribution of funds for teaching and research among universities: The case of North Rhine-Westphalia

Abstract This paper reports on a real application of a performance and success based system for redistribution of funds for teaching and research among universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. After a precise description of the decision situation, we show how goal programming and distance minimization were applied in order to find a solution on the basis of real data. Some comments on the results and the quality of the redistribution process conclude the paper.

Capacity planning of diagnosis systems in hospitals

Abstract The paper shows how queueing theory extended by elements of the stochastic network-planning-technique can be used for planning the capacities of complex diagnosis systems in hospitals.The analytic considerations have been applied to the diagnosis system of the General Hospital in Hagen City.

Decision Concepts for Organisations

When, in the beginning of the fifties Simon (1952/53), for the first time, systematically tried to analyse decisions in organisations with a view to concluding from this the necessary quantitative solution instruments, it had rashly been expected that the formal foundations of an organisation theory with respect to business administration would be created very soon. In view of the developments which have taken place in the meantime in the fields of game and bargaining theory, and considering the knowledge obtained from the theory of multiple criteria decision making, it seems reasonable today to make another attempt to find out how far quantitative economic concepts of this kind can be used for or contribute to the formulating and solving of decision problems in organisations. Thus, cooperative games with or without side payments as well as non-cooperative games come into consideration. As to the application of the theory of bargaining to decision problems in organisations, two qualitatively different procedures have been developed, namely the approaches based on the game theory and the concessive models of bargaining formulated on the basis of spontaneous elements of behaviour.

Eine produktionstheoretisch fundierte Kostenrechnung für Hochschulen

Der Rechtfertigungsdruck bei der Mittelverteilung auf Hochschulen verlangt nach Kosteninformationen, die aus einer Kostenrechnung fur Hochschulen hergeleitet werden konnen. Der Beitrag entwickelt eine produktionstheoretisch fundierte Kostenrechnung fur Hochschulen, die diesen Zwecken dienen soll. Die Kostenrechnung wird am Beispiel der Fernuniversitat dargestellt und erlaubt, fur Facherkombinationen typischer Studienverlaufe die Kosten zu bestimmen.

On the applicability of group decision making concepts to wage bargaining

Wage bargaining may formally be treated as decision problems among two parties with different utility functions. The decision consists of determining the increase of the wage rate for the time of the tariff-contract commonly accepted by the both tariff-parties representing the employers and the employees respectively. So far on principle the same solution methods of the game and the bargaining theory can be applied to such decision situations as they come into question for multi-person-decision problems in organizations (FANDEL 1979a; FANDEL 1979b). However because of the special problem structure in the case of wage bargaining one may restrict mainly to cooperative solution concepts without side payments.

Redistribution of Funds for Teaching and Research among Universities

The Ministry of Science and Research of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia has initiated a procedure for the performance- and success-based redistribution of funds for teaching and research among universities. The fundamental procedure to determine a solution for this decision situation that is accepted by all universities may be described as a three-level decision process with multiple objectives. The three decision levels are the ministry, the rectors’ council and the individual universities. Criteria for a performance- and success-oriented distribution of funds in teaching are the proportions of academic personnel employed, the proportions of students in the first 4 semesters, and the proportions of graduates. Criteria for assessing successful research are the proportions of outside funds and the proportions of PhDs.

Interdependencies between network and activity-analytical descriptions of production relationships in the implementation of large-scale projects - illustrated by textbook production

Abstract Interdependencies between network-based production planning in the case of large-scale projects and activity-analytical aspects of those processes are elaborated by reference to the production of a study letter for teaching purposes. Applying dynamic activity analysis, the networks can be evaluated in respect of their efficiency in consuming resources, and therefore, in turn, from performance and disposition perspectives.

Group Decision Making: Methodology and Applications

Group decision problems are decision problems with several decision makers and different utility functions. Game and bargaining approaches can be taken into account as solution methods. They are characterized by the actual decision rule which describes, or rather determines, the decision behaviour of the group members.

Surplus or disposal quantities in optimal program planning in joint production

Abstract For an optimal design of a production program in joint production (multi-product output from one raw material) one has to take into account that partial quantities of production have to be included which can neither be used within the production process nor marketed. These quantities are called surplus or disposal quantities. The paper is concerned with the question to what extent the optimal design of a production program in joint production is affected by variable disposal costs and maximum disposal quantities, while all the other data remain constant. For this purpose we start from a generalized formulation approach based on a linear programming model with parametrically variable disposal costs and maximum disposal quantities; this approach may be regarded as a synthesis of most planning approaches in joint production which can be found in the literature so far, and contains the latter as special cases for the most part. Subsequently, by means of a numerical example we demonstrate what changes in profits will possibly have to be put up with, depending on which special case is chosen for the formulation of the problem, and in what way the surplus quantities of individual joint products will then behave. The results obtained are directly applicable to a practical planning situation, since they show that deliberately allowing for surplus quantities under profit aspects is still advantageous, even if comparatively high disposal costs have to be taken into account - which at first sight could suggest a general avoidance of surplus quantities.

Systeme der Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung

Berucksichtigt man den Zeitbezug des erfasten und bewerteten Guterverzehrs, so fuhrt dies zu der Unterscheidung von Rechnungen auf Basis von Ist-, Normal- und Plankosten. Der Inhalt dieser drei Rechnungen bestimmt sich analog zu den in Kapitel 2.2.7 abgegrenzten Kostenbegriffen.