Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims to provide an equitable approach for the delocation via merging different bank branches. Due to the profit loss, some banks have resisted this change, so we developed a n/equity approach to modeling this issue to convince bank owners and employees. The proposed model is a mixed-integer programming model to have an equitable approach to fuzzy constraints based on the weighted sum of the remaining branches to the total number of branches of each type of bank. Moreover, this equitable approach was also used to avoid unemployment of the closed branches staff. Considering the harsh employment conditions and the turmoil of employees after the branched delocation, maximizing the retention of closed branch employees is considered the model's objective function. The result showed that using fuzzy constraints, equity can be well modeled. Moreover, increasing the equity coefficient reduces the number of facilities remaining in the system, and as a consequence, the desired efficiency (i.e., personnel retention) is reduced. So, we can reach the non-dominated answers. Finally, the results showed that reducing the minimum distance between facilities will allow more facilities to remain in the system and retain more staff.
Source: Scientia Iranica
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4367341254