Abstract:

The manpower in an organization constitutes an important and essential
asset. Competent personnel endowed with individual academic and managerial
strengths in specific disciplines and personal capabilities, who can undertake a
variety of marketing or research assignments, are needed in any organization as they
substantially credit to its performance. Development of rational techniques for
capability assessment during recruitment of personnel is therefore vital. The techniques
that are normally employed for decision making in identification of performance
attributes including their weight assignments include techniques like
Delphi and decision matrix, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) etc. AHP converts
qualitative opinion of experts into quantified values and generates a decision matrix.
In this paper, we have integrated Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to generate
local weights of alternatives from pair-wise comparison of judgment matrix used in
the AHP for a three attribute system for measuring performance of personnel at
entry level of managerial hierarchy. Multiple expert judgments have been considered
for weight determination of the attributes. Thus, DEAHP (i.e., combined DEAAHP
approach) has been proposed in this paper as an alternative to the traditional
methods of weight derivation in AHP.

Key words: DEA , AHP,  MCDM ,  Performance evaluation ,  Linear programming