Estimation of expected time to recruitment under two sources of depletion of manpower

Attrition is a common phenomenon in many organisations. This leads to the depletion of manpower. Recruitment on every occasion of manpower is not possible. Hence the cumulative depletion of manpower is permitted till it reaches a level called the threshold. If the total loss of manpower crosses the threshold the activities will be affected and hence recruitment becomes necessary. In this paper it is assumed that the depletion of manpower occurs due to two reasons namely the depletion after every occasion of policy decisions regarding pay, perquisites and work target. The other reason for depletion is due to transfer of personnel to sister organizations. The expected time to recruitment is derived under the assumption that the threshold itself is a random variable. Numerical illustrations are also given.