An Application of the Fuzzy Electre Method for Academic Staff Selection

Abstract

There are various methods regarding staff selection in different fields. Thanks to the increasing improvements in the field of education, universities around the world tend to demand high -quality and professional academic staff. Staff selection is a multi-criteria decision-making processes, and of strategic importance for most universities. This study deals with actual application of academic of staff selection using the opinion of experts to be applied into a model of group decision - making called the Fuzzy ELECTRE (Elimination Et Choix Traduisant la REaite) method. There are ten qualitative criteria for selecting the best candidate amongst five prospective applications. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.