An assembly operation has 5 worker levels/states: engineering manager, supply chain, production, quality control, and workshop/ maintenance. Employees move from level to level based on their development in-house.

We have derived the following from historical data:

Engineering manager: 96.25% remain as engineering manager; 3.75% exit

Supply chain: 2.50% promoted to engineering managers, 95% remain in supply chain; 2.50% exit

Production: 9.67% promoted to supply chain; 85.33% remain in production; 5% exit

Quality control: 15% promoted to production; 80% remain in quality control; 5% exit

Workshop/maintenance: 20% promoted to quality control, 60% remain in workshop/maintenance; 20% exit

Current # of employees 2022

Engineering manager: 2

Supply chain: 60

Production: 128

Quality control: 35

Workshop/maintenance: 90

Instruction:

Make a transitional matrix from the information given above 2 marks

	Eng. manager	Supply chain	Prod.	Qual. Contol	workshop	exit
Eng. manager
Supply chain
Prod.
Quality control
Workshop
Totals

Determine the projected HR supply for 2023 3 marks

Linear regression was used to determine the demand forecast for 2023, based on an increase in sales to $12m. The demand levels by state/level are given below (addressed Forecasted demand) Match these with the supply you have calculated in (b) above, then determine the "gap". 3 marks

Discuss the usefulness of this information from an HRM perspective. [i.e. "so what"?] 2 marks

Forecasted Demand

Eng. Managers 4

Supply chain 73

Production 156

Quality control 51

Workshop/main. 110