Project scheduling and staff assignment of selected manufacturing firms in Osun state, Nigeria

The study examines project scheduling and staff assignment in selected manufacturing firms in Osun State, Nigeria. To achieve this main objective of the study, three operational objectives are set out for the study. The study adopts descriptive survey design to gather data through the administration of questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using chi-square analysis through SPSS. Results of the analysis revealed that there is a relationship between learning effect and lead time to perform a task & processing times and skills acquired by employees. The study concludes that scheduling tasks in a project and assigning the staff to these tasks must take account that a task can be performed only by employees with certain skills and that the length of each tasks depends on the number of employees assigned. Also, staff will perform a task more efficiently if he or she stays on the task longer. It was recommended that manufacturing firms should focus more on training their employees so as to minimize production costs in task scheduling and before assigning staff to tasks for each period, learning effect of staff should be considered to minimize outsourcing cost.