scholarly journals Establishing the Relative Importance of Specific Sustainability Themes That Influence Women’s Choice of Engineering as a Career Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 566
Author(s):  
Ibifuro Ken-Giami ◽  
Sarinova Simandjuntak ◽  
Linda Yang ◽  
Ann Coats ◽  
David Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Understanding the importance of salient factors associated with sustainability challenges that engineers are known to solve in influencing women’s choice of engineering is particularly important in this present world where a combination of these sustainability issues, the underrepresentation of women and the need for more engineers remain a challenge to the profession. However, little is known about the degree of importance of more detailed themes within the social, environmental and economic sustainability pillars in such career decisions. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to understand the relative importance of specific sustainability-themed factors influencing women’s choice of engineering, using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). An AHP structurally designed online survey was used to gather and analyze data from a sample of 414 UK and Nigeria respondents. The results showed that of all the ten sustainability-themed factors examined in this study, water quality/quantity, climate change, waste management, biodiversity, and material consumption/energy use, had a greater influence on the respondents’ choice of engineering relative to other factors. The data revealed specific rather than general sustainability themes that appeal to women’s choice of engineering. This could offer valuable insight from a recruitment strategy perspective to help engineering stakeholders to focus their attention and recruitment efforts on the most salient areas of influence.

Facilitating quality project manager selection for Indian business environment using analytical hierarchy process

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1177-1194
Author(s):  
Keshav Kumar Sharma ◽  
Anup Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Manager Selection ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Selection Of

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop criteria for project manager selection based on desired skills of a project manager and facilitate the selection of a suitable candidate from a pool of potential candidates for the implementation of projects in the Indian context.Design/methodology/approachThe study utilizes three major skills, namely human skill, conceptual and organizational skills; technical skill along with their sub-skills to develop criteria for project manager selection. Based on the responses of project professionals from industry, the study uses analytical hierarchy process to prioritize and identify the relative importance of different skills in the criteria in order to develop a hierarchical structure for project manager selection.FindingsThe study finds that at the first level of project manager selection criteria, conceptual and organizational skills are the most important selection criteria followed by human skills and technical skills. At the second level of project manager selection criteria, planning, delegating authority and understanding methods, processes, and procedures are some of the important sub-selection criteria. The weights indicating the relative importance of major selection criteria and sub-selection criteria can be used to evaluate the relative weight of a given candidate for selection as a project manager.Research limitations/implicationsThe results in this study are derived from specific demographic conditions in India. Future research with larger samples from other countries is needed for generalizations of the proposed criteria.Practical implicationsThe proposed method quantifies the intangible qualitative criteria to select a project manager, which can aid decision-makers in a multi-criteria decision-making environment.Originality/valueThis research paper is focused on the identification of critical skills for the selection of a project manager, which is almost neglected by the researchers.

scholarly journals The Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process in Combination with PESTEL-SWOT Analysis to Assess the Hydrocarbons Sector in Cyprus

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michail Tsangas ◽  
Mejdi Jeguirim ◽  
Lionel Limousy ◽  
Antonis Zorpas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Natural gas reserves have been recently found offshore of Cyprus. Hence, a new energy sector is under development, creating potential for raised welfare for the small insular EU member. Several social and economic benefits could be achieved from the resources’ exploitation. However, natural gas is a non-renewable energy source, connected with the major environmental issues of fossil fuels. The research goal of this work was to evaluate the sustainability of the new hydrocarbons sector. This was attained using a set of indicators, developed from the combination of PESTEL (Political, Economic, Technical, Social, Environmental, Legal) and SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analyses. These were quantified using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) weighting method. They were pairwise compared and evaluated, resulting to a size for each one. The judgements of four evaluators, representing diverse interested parties, were used. The strengths and opportunities of the sector were found to be more than the weaknesses and threats. The relevant indicators quantification demonstrates also that the value of the positives is higher than the negatives. Therefore, if the first are enhanced and the latter are mitigated, there is sustainability potential. The sectors environmental issues are evaluated as the most important, followed by the economic. The other takes lower but comparatively significant values, and must be handled accordingly. These results lead to useful conclusions and could be exploited for decision-making and policies formulation.

scholarly journals Sustainability Analysis of Marble Sector in Buner

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Majid Ali Khan ◽  
Safi Ur Rehman ◽  
Abdur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Break Rock ◽  
Rock Falls ◽  
White Marble ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Ornamental Stone ◽  
Sustainability Analysis ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Marble is an ornamental stone, extremely popular for use as architectural and sculptural purposes. Nonrenewable marble resources in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan are mostly mined by conventional mining methods(producing irregular shaped blocks) instead of using mechanized mining producing regular shaped blocks.Conventional mining methods are more economical but are less environment friendly due to more quantity of wasteproduced. While, mechanized marble mining has a better recovery, reduces mining cost (processing and transportation)and is less environmentally hazardous. In this study a situation and sustainability analysis of marble mining operationsat Buner, the most productive marble mining cluster in KP, Pakistan, is carried out. Buner has about 1.4 billion tons ofmarble resources and contributes around 51 percent of total country’s marble production. Analytical Hierarchy Process(AHP) is used on the basis of key sustainability factors (economic, technical, social, environmental and safety) forselection of most sustainable mining methods. The analysis revealed that conventional mining is least sustainable andproduces maximum waste, cracks, irregular shaped blocks, high working faces, back break, rock falls and accidents. Itwas concluded and recommended that these conventional mining methods should be replaced with the more sustainablemining methods i.e. semi-mechanized (controlled blasting / expansion material) at sunny grey and get black marbledeposits and mechanized mining (rope cutting) at Bampokha No.1 and Chagharzai white marble deposits.

scholarly journals FACTORS THAT DETERMINE WHEN TO ENGAGE PRE-CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stephanus Botha ◽  
Daniel Jacobus van der Walt ◽  
Eric Scheepbouwer
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Construction Services

The use of Pre-Construction Services (PCS) is becoming increasingly common internationally. What remains unclear is defining the optimal stage to engage it. This paper adopted complexity factors to find the optimal moment to engage in PCS. From literature, the factors: schedule-pressure, risk, financing, and technicality were adopted as factors of complexity. Understanding these factors for PCS can help the industry avoid costly PCS pitfalls of engaging in PCS too early or too late. With an online survey, a series of interviews and the analytical hierarchy process, this paper has weighed the above four factors for the key construction stakeholders. This paper concludes that schedule pressure is the most important factor, while technicality is the least important factor for deciding when to engage in PCS. Using these factors and respective weights, it is recommended that a tool be developed that can assist the industry in determining when to engage the contractor for PCS.

scholarly journals Presentation a New Method for Determining of Bridge Condition Index by Using Analytical Hierarchy Process

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeid Darban ◽  
Hosein Ghasemzadeh Tehrani ◽  
Nader Karballaeezadeh
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Concrete Bridges ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Expert Choice ◽  
Weighted Score ◽  
Maintenance Activities ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Load Impact

This paper proposes a method for determining the bridge condition index (BCI) in concrete bridges, which is based on the views of bridge experts. First, eight indices were defined for a concrete bridge including structure, hydrology, safety, load impact, geotechnical and seismicity, strategic importance, facilities, and finally traffic and pavement. Each index consists of several sub-indices. Next, a series of questionnaires about the relative importance of indices and their sub-indices were prepared and distributed among bridge experts. Experts’ views were analyzed by Expert Choice software and the relative importance (weight) of each index and each sub-index was determined using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Then, based on experts’ views, an average score was assigned to each sub-index for any condition. Now the bridge inspectors can examine the bridge and determine the scores of sub-indices. Each index’s score is the sum of the weighted score assigned to its’ sub-indices and BCI is the sum of weighted scores assigned to indices. Higher values of BCI indicate a better condition. Therefore, bridges with lower BCI take priority in maintenance activities. To apply the proposed method, five bridges were selected in Semnan province, Iran, and BCI calculation of these bridges were conducted.

scholarly journals Selection of an optimal method for the preparation of dual loaded flavono polymeric nanoparticle using analytical hierarchy process

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senthil Kumar Chinnamaruthu ◽  
Mohan Sellappan
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Polymeric Nanoparticles ◽  
Pharmaceutical Journal ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Optimal Method ◽  
Consistency Ratio ◽  
Comparison Matrix ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Pair Wise Comparison ◽  
Pair Wise Comparison Matrix

In this study, analytical hierarchy process was used to select an optimal method for the preparation of dual loaded flavono polymeric nanoparticles. Analytical hierarchy process involves structuring multiple choice criteria into a hierarchy, assessing the relative importance of criteria, comparing alternatives for each criterion and determining an overall ranking of the alternatives. Hierarchy model was developed with the goal in the first level, 10 criteria in the second level and methods for the preparation of polymeric nanoparticles in the third level. To assess the relative importance of criteria, all criteria were compared with each other using Saaty’s scale. To compare the methods, all the methods for the preparation of polymeric nanoparticles were compared with each other for each criterion using Saaty’s scale, which leads to the formation of pair-wise comparison matrixes and consistency ratio was calculated for the each pair-wise comparison matrix. The study result showed that the consistency ratio of each pair-wise comparison matrix were well within acceptable limits. Of 10 criteria, reproducible results received the maximum overall priority weight followed by desirable size. Of 10 methods, nanoprecipitation method received the maximum overall priority weight followed by supercritical fluid technology. Analytical hierarchy process has identified reproducible results as criteria preference and nanoprecipitation as an optimal method for the preparation of dual loaded flavono polymeric nanoparticles. The study concludes that the analytical hierarchy process has played a vital role in selecting an optimal method for the preparation of dual loaded flavono polymeric nanoparticles.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/icpj.v3i4.18264 International Current Pharmaceutical Journal, March 2014, 3(4): 247-253 

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF INNOVATION THROUGH ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Gunduz ◽  
Mohammed Alfar
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Project Management Professionals ◽  
Innovation Barriers ◽  
Hierarchy Process

This paper examines the concept of innovation management in the construction industry by studying the major components of the innovation process such as the major drivers of innovation, barriers and obstacles that prevent innovation, the enablers that motivate innovation, the practices of innovation, and the benefits of innovation both at project and company level. This paper is based on the data collected by means of structured questionnaires and analyzed throughsurvey analysis. The survey, which consisted of 46 factors involved in the innovation process, was distributed to 121 different participants, and the collected data were analyzed by the relative importance index (RII), as well as the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The RII rankings feed the AHP analysis as the first step to rank the factors. Later, the factors are ranked according to the AHP analysis. Based on these rankings, recommendations are made to contractors, consultants, project management professionals, owners and suppliers.

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