Abstract:

Today's global competitive environment, sector managers are faced with various problems day by day. One of these problems is the selection of the personnel, which is the most important element of an organization, in accordance with the job and workplace in terms of quality and quantity. The recruitment process consists of the stages of determining the expert group that will make the selection, determining the criteria to be used in the evaluation, and making a decision by evaluating the criteria. The most important step in this process is to determine the criteria in line with the needs of the sector. This situation becomes more special for sectors with long-term and strategic features such as the defense industry. In this study, the determination of the selection criteria with the group decision-making method for the defense acquisition personnel, which is one of the keystones of the defense sector, and the examination of the interaction of the criteria with each other. Comparisons of the experts on the criteria were made with Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method without discrimination of the working class (white, blue, gray, etc). The fuzzy DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method was used in the study, since the expert opinions on the criteria determined for the defense acquisition process are made with subjective expressions and it is used in the criteria analysis in various fields in the literature.