Abstract:

Personnel selection is the most important process in human resources management discipline since a right selection contributes to other human resources management functions directly. An effective match indicates the quality of human resources department in an establishment. The process of selecting the most matching personnel is regarded as a ‘Multi Criteria Decision Making’ problem because of various criteria (qualitative and quantitative) for specific business positions. Hence, ‘Multi Criteria Decision Making’ techniques are very suitable to solve recruitment problems via finding the optimal candidate for a job position. This paper proposes a model that includes Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), Analytical Network Process (ANP) and Elimination and Choice Expressing the Reality (ELECTRE) tools for the first time to overcome this problem. In the first step of the methodology, network relations of the job criteria are identified by DEMATEL method. Afterwards, the network relations are used as inputs in the ANP process and the importance weights of the job criteria are obtained via ANP method. Finally, ELECTRE method is implemented to rank the applicants. In all the steps, expert opinions are utilized and the integrated methodology is implemented in a corporation to show its applicability. Therefore, this study contributes to the literature both theoretically and practically.

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