scholarly journals The Application of a Managerial Competency Model in Employee Promotion—Combination of AHP and VIKOR Methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
HsienYu Shun ◽  
KuoYan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Competency Model ◽  
Executive Management ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Managerial Competency ◽  
Specific Competency ◽  
Decision Making Model

Managerial competency model is a main structure that lists competencies needed for manager’s position. This paper established a employee promotion application combined with managerial competency model and AHP-VIKOR methodology. Research was carried using qualitative and quantitative methods. The managerial competency model is explained through a literature review and internal interview is to confirm the specific competency items that suitable for case company. Research from expert panels is used to evaluate the managerial competency of the candidates in the case study. The quantitative tool was AHP and VIKOR model. AHP was applied to calculate the criteria weights of managerial competency items. VIKOR multi-criteria decision making model ranked the alternatives and the most suitable promotion candidate was selected. The results from the VIKOR model were used as the decision-making basis for the promotion of the best candidate. This research expected to use the quantitative method to support the executive management level to develop internal talent base on a objective evaluate results.

scholarly journals Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 16226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondoss Elsawah ◽  
Tatiana Filatova ◽  
Anthony J. Jakeman ◽  
Albert J. Kettner ◽  
Moira L. Zellner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Uncertainty Assessment ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Environmental Systems

Modeling is essential to characterize and explore complex societal and environmental issues in systematic and collaborative ways. Socio-environmental systems (SES) modeling integrates knowledge and perspectives into conceptual and computational tools that explicitly recognize how human decisions affect the environment. Depending on the modeling purpose, many SES modelers also realize that involvement of stakeholders and experts is fundamental to support social learning and decision-making processes for achieving improved environmental and social outcomes. The contribution of this paper lies in identifying and formulating grand challenges that need to be overcome to accelerate the development and adaptation of SES modeling. Eight challenges are delineated: bridging epistemologies across disciplines; multi-dimensional uncertainty assessment and management; scales and scaling issues; combining qualitative and quantitative methods and data; furthering the adoption and impacts of SES modeling on policy; capturing structural changes; representing human dimensions in SES; and leveraging new data types and sources. These challenges limit our ability to effectively use SES modeling to provide the knowledge and information essential for supporting decision making. Whereas some of these challenges are not unique to SES modeling and may be pervasive in other scientific fields, they still act as barriers as well as research opportunities for the SES modeling community. For each challenge, we outline basic steps that can be taken to surmount the underpinning barriers. Thus, the paper identifies priority research areas in SES modeling, chiefly related to progressing modeling products, processes and practices.

scholarly journals Modeling of Livestock Production Activities and Cattle Marketing, A Decision-Making Model of Production and Sales Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Adolf Bastian Heatubun ◽  
Marcus Veerman ◽  
Michel Johan Matatula
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Combination Method ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cattle Production ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Right

Appropriate and accurate decision making is needed in every business activity. Farmers, collectors, and butchers at Slaughterhouses are the main actors in cattle production and marketing to final consumers. Modeling of cattle production activities to marketing helps the analysis and application of the right decision making. This research was conducted in Lolong Guba District, Buru Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia, and will take place in 2021. The research aims to establish a model of cattle production and marketing activities. The research used a combination method, namely qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative methods were used to collect primary data information from cattle breeders, collector traders, and butchers at Slaughterhouses. Quantitative methods are used to record and make quantitative data from the informants. The resulting data will be used for model testing and simulation analysis in the future. The model formulated includes the variables of the amount of cattle produced by the breeder, the amount of production sold, the profit received by the farmer, the cost of production of the farmer, the value of cattle sales at the farmer level, the added value of cattle that are not sold, the price of kilograms of carcass at the farmer level, the value of the sale of cattle at the butcher's level, the profit received by the butcher, and the price per kilogram of carcass at the butcher's level. The model formed consists of 8 structural equations and 2 identity equations.

Women Access to Land and Legal Security of Tenure in Ohafia Abia State Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Chidinma J Nwobi ◽  
◽  
Eugene E Kalu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Gender Integration ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Legal Security

Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices which cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance. Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses cases from Ohafia to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access and tenure security. Ohafia in Abia State, Nigeria was the study area. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods including household surveys, semi-structured interviews, key informant interviews and observations. The experience of women revolved around fear of been cheated (19.7%), need a supporting hand (46.8%) and need approval from their husband (33.6%). The consequences of perceived exclusion and/or marginalization of women as revealed by women owner-occupiers are women subordination (70.2%) and marginalization of widow (29.8%). The study recommends the promotion of gender integration at all levels of projects and programmes by integrating gender perspectives in all future activities as it is required, for example, the FAO Gender Plan of Action and the UNCHS. To ensure gender inclusiveness in project and programme planning and in policy and decision-making, aiming towards a balanced representation of men and women in these bodies. Keywords: Land, Land Rights, Land Tenure, Women, Legal Security of Tenure

scholarly journals Realizing Sustainable Development via Modified Integrated Weighting MCDM Model for Ranking Agrarian Dataset

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepa ◽  
Ganesan ◽  
Srinivasan ◽  
Chang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Yield Data ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
Subjective Knowledge ◽  
Weight Calculation ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
The Given ◽  
Single Set

One of the crucial elements in decision-making is the calculation of criteria weights. In this paper, a new Modified Integrated Weighting (MIW) method was proposed to combine the weights obtained using different weight calculation methods into a single set of weights. The weights express the relative significance of the criteria and play an essential role in making correct decisions. The proposed method considered both subjective knowledge of the experts and the objectivity of the problem by combining the subjective and objective weight assignment methods. The proposed weight calculation method was applied to the agriculture dataset for the evaluation of groundnut crop sites. A decision-making model was developed via the proposed MIW method and Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS) method to rank the given groundnut crop site dataset. The ranking results of the developed decision model were compared with the ranking results of average yield data and other methods for validation purposes. The developed model exhibited better results for the given dataset and could be used to solve various other decision-making problems, thereby realizing sustainable development.

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods as a Basis for Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Mădălina-Ioana Bădilă ◽  
Lucian-Ionel Cioca ◽  
Dănuț Eugeniu Moşteanu ◽  
Ruxandra Moşteanu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Competitive Behavior ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Type Population ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

AbstractFor decades, researchers have been trying to identify the factors that significantly influence the conflicting results in the organizational environment. This search has become more stringent through recently published scientific evidence demonstrating strategic changes. Using multi-factorial analysis, this study mixes qualitative and quantitative methods by which we can examine the pro-organizational performance on a university-type population. The qualitative results indicate that the analyzed organization develops corporate-strategic schemes that are being used to attribute the advantage meant to guide the competitive behavior.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Relevance of VRA Resettlement Trust Fund as a Benefit Sharing Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Richard Twum Barimah Koranteng ◽  
Guoqing Shi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Trust Fund ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Monetary Benefit

The Volta River Authority Resettlement Trust Fund’ (VRA RTF) was established by the Ghanaian Government, with some threshold of assistance the VRA outfit. More than thirty years after the dam’s construction project got its finality, a scheme was subsequently introduce to ensure that earnings emanating from the dam’s activities would be of immense relevance to the deranged folks by providing socio-economic amenities like water and sanitation, infrastructural developmental projects among others. However, financing deficiencies appear to be an indispensable and integral setback as far as the pursuance of the Trust’s mission is concerned. The study set out to analyze the relevance of VRA RTF as a benefit sharing mechanism in Ghana, specifically, using the employees of VRA RTF in conjunction the resettlers belonging to Senchi Ferry Township (VRATFCs). Among other objectives, the study determined the distinctive relevance of RTFs to affected individuals, identified the key monetary and non-monetary benefit sharing mechanisms (BSMs) adopted by project developers for displaced individuals, in addition to the critical challenges confronting the smooth functioning of RTFs in Ghana. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of research was adopted for the study. Convenience sampling using questionnaire instrumentation was used to collect data from the staff of VRA RTF and chosen Senchi Ferry Township resettlers. A 5-Point Likert scale which was later fine-tuned into the Relative Importance Index (RII), SPSS Version 22.0 and Microsoft Excel were used for the data analysis. The results indicated the 6 distinctive relevance of RTFs at VRATFCs as water and sanitation, educational enhancement, health improvement, improvement of agricultural projects, community development via socio-cultural activities. To add to this, the 5 key monetary and non-monetary benefit sharing mechanisms as revealed by the participants’ were as follows: revenue sharing, development funds, property taxes, equity sharing as well as livelihood and restoration enhancement. More so, with reference to the critical challenges confronting the smooth functioning of RTFs at VRATFCs, 6 bottlenecks realized were as follows: improper costing of relocation packages (ineffective budgeting), inadequate compensation of displaced individuals, inactive involvement of the displaced individuals in the decision making process, insufficient grant allocation to the fund, clarity of rules and policies relating to fund disbursement, vis-à-vis questionable timing of the resettlement processes. It is recommended that the management of VRA RTF, well-informed resettlers and policy-makers at VRATFCs in Ghana and beyond strictly adheres to the establishment of project specific development funds, accountability and transparency regimes, active involvement of resettlers in the decision making process, increment of grant to the RTF, adequate compensation of displaced individuals, effective costing of relocation packages. This strategic initiatives will inadvertently go a long way to manage the issues identified during the study.

scholarly journals A Novel Vaccine Selection Decision-Making Model (VSDMM) for COVID-19

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 718
Author(s):  
Sayed F. Abdelwahab ◽  
Usama H. Issa ◽  
Hossam M. Ashour
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Selection Decision ◽  
Vaccine Availability ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Selecting a vaccine for fighting a pandemic is one of the serious issues in healthcare. Novel decision models for vaccine selection need to be developed. In this study, a novel vaccine selection decision-making model (VSDMM) was proposed and developed, based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique, which assesses many alternatives (vaccines) using multi-criteria to support decision making. To feed data to the VSDMM, six coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) vaccines were selected in a case study to highlight the applicability of the proposed model. Each vaccine was compared to the others with respect to six criteria and all criteria were compared to calculate the relative weights. The proposed criteria include (1) vaccine availability; (2) vaccine formula; (3) vaccine efficacy; (4) vaccine-related side effects; (5) cost savings, and (6) host-related factors. Using the selected criteria, experts responded to questions and currently available COVID-19 vaccines were ranked according to their weight in the model. A sensitivity analysis was introduced to assess the model robustness and the impacts of changing criteria weights on the results. The VSDMM is flexible in terms of its ability to accept more vaccine alternatives and/or more criteria. It could also be applied to other current or future pandemics/epidemics in the world. In conclusion, this is the first report to propose a VSDMM for selecting the most suitable vaccines in pandemic/epidemic situations or any other situations in which vaccine selection and usage may be deemed necessary.

scholarly journals Decision Making with Unknown Criteria Weight Information in the Frame Work of Interval Valued Trapezoidal Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4424-4429
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Weighted Averaging ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽  
Averaging Operator ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Interval Valued

This paper proposes an interval valued trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy (IVTIF) decision making model for multi criteria group decision making (MCGDM) problem by taking into consideration that the criteria weights of each decision maker may differ with respect to each other when criteria weights are unknown prior. In this process, a new method to find the criteria weight based on alternatives performance and Einstein weighted averaging operator on IVTIFSs is defined. Further, the properties of interval valued trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy Einstein weighted averaging (IVITFEWA) operator are proved. The proposed method is illustrated by taking a numerical example. From the results it is observed that the proposed method can effectively rank the alternatives compared to existing methods.

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