A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Designing Rotation Programs: Limits and Possibilities
Authors: Korpela Ville, Lombardi Michele, Saulle Riccardo
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
eISSN: 1090-2473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.11.008
Publication's open availability at the time of reporting: No Open Access
Publication channel's open availability : Partially Open Access publication channel
Web address : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S089982562300180X
Rotation programs are widely used in our society. For instance, a job rotation program is an HR strategy where employees rotate between two or more jobs in the same business. We study rotation programs within the standard implementation framework under complete information. We introduce the notion of implementation in ordered cycles, where each ordered cycle is a rotation program for an assignment problem. When the designer would like to attain a Pareto efficient goal, we provide sufficient conditions for its implementation in ordered cycles. However, when, for instance, every employee transitions through all different lateral jobs before rotating back to his original one, the conditions fully characterize the class of Pareto efficient goals that are implementable in ordered cycles.