Purpose: As a way of alleviating nursing workforce shortages, health care managers are employing two types of workforce flexibility: supplemental staffing and floating among units. In this paper, the authors investigate the moderating effects of two critical situational variables – namely,...

Onion is an indispensable ingredient of the Indian diet, and plays a vital role in Indian economy, society, and politics. The ongoing volatility in its prices leads to significant social unrest. In this paper, we are interested in helping decision-makers to rigorously evaluate policy proposals...

Gender diversity in the workforce has proven its benefits. While there has been considerable progress over the last century regarding the women’s status in society, the gender gap in the business world has endured. Women hold jobs that are inferior and pay less and occupy less seats up in the...

Managing inventory is one of the most fundamental operations management issues. Real-life inventory management decisions are complicated in nature; and inevitably, human decision-makers introduce bias into the process. Since societal culture causes behavioral biases and also affects the...