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VIKOR Method for Multi Criteria Decision Making in Academic Staff Selection

  1. S. Radhika
  2. D.Sameer Kumar
  3. D. Swapna

Abstract

For any academic organization, the selection of qualified personnel is a key success factor. As many factors such as professional ability, communication ability, work experience and so on influence the personnel selection, this becomes a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem. MCDM methods provide a ranking of the available alternatives thereby, decision of critical thinking become easier. A branch of MCDM methods named Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje in Serbian (VIKOR), is used in the present work. The work presents the staff selection of a real-life academic institution, where seven candidates under seven different sub-criteria are evaluated and prioritized.

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