Comparative analysis of hospital personnel selection by multiple criteria decision making methods

Personnel selection, one of the most important problems of human resources management, is one of the important decisions that must be made for businesses. Personnel selection is a multi-criteria decision that must accommodate the various criteria required by the job. It is necessary that all the criteria necessary for the selection of the personnel in the enterprises are taken into consideration and the right choice decision should be made by making a comparison between the alternatives at the same time. For this reason, the problem of staff selection has been emphasized and multi-criteria decision making methods have been used. The aim of this thesis is to solve the problem of selection of personnel which is very important for enterprises with the help of multi-criteria decision making methods and to compare the results of the methods used. In this context, seven nurses working in the department of internal medicine of a public hospital were evaluated according to AHP and GIA methods and the ranking results obtained were compared. As the result of the study, the criterion with the highest weight was found to be the first with the highest vocational qualification score for the two methods which were found as the vocational qualification. Keywords: Personnel Selection, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Gray Relational Analysis.