A New Fuzzy ELECTRE Based Multiple Criteria Method for Personnel Selection

Document Type : Research Note

Authors

1 Department of Industrial Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

In today competitive environment, qualified human resources are considered as one of the major keys to the organizations’ success. So an efficient solution to the problem of personnel selection is more necessary than any time in the past. Besides many of the works in the literature of the field, this paper presents a novel fuzzy ELECTRE approach which is categorized as a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) technique. In the approach, the weights and ranks are determined by linguistic variables while both quantitative and qualitative criteria are considered simultaneously. At last with a case, the implementation of the model is illustrated and the results are compared with TOPSIS.

 

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