20. Bernard Mee, the head of the department of management science at Tech, is evaluating faculty
for raises at the end of the academic year. He is considering three faculty members for raises:
John Abbott, Megan Bates, and Debbie Cook. Faculty evaliations are based on three criteria—
teaching, research, and service. Professor Mce’s pairwise comparisons for each of the three
faculty members for each criterion and his pairwise comparison matrix for the three criteria are
as follows:
Teaching
Faculty Member A B €
A 1 2 ws
B nm 1 us
c 3 5 1
Research
Faculty Member A B c
A 1 3 Ww
B n 1 1
c 2 1 1
Service
Faculty Member A B €
A 1 3 6
B ws 1 2
c 6 "2 1
Criterion Teaching Research _— Service.
‘Teaching 1 3 5
Research 1 1 2
Service us 1 1
Determine an overall ranking of the three faculty members hy using AHP.44. The owners of the Blitz professional soccer team are disappointed in their team’s home at=
tendance, so they are considering moving to one of four cities: Atlanta, Birmingham,
Charlotte, or Durham. The criteria the owners are using to make their decision are population
in the 1540 age group, soccer interest (measured by youth, high school, and college soccer
same particination and attendance). media market, entertainment and sports competition,
‘and the proposed playing facility. Following are the owners” pairwise comparisons for the
four potential cities for each of the five criteria, and me owners" pairwise comparisons for
the criteria:
Population
ty A 8 c >
A 1 3 4 9
B us 1 ws 4
c va 3 1 5
D 1" us Ws 1
‘Soccer Interest
cy a B c D
A 1 3 1 a
B 1B 1 re} 16
c 1 3 1 12
D 4 6 2 1
Media Market
Gity A 8 c D
A 1 s 3 7
B us 1 wa 2
c ws 4 1 3
D uw wa usa '
Competition
cy a B c D
A 1 a 3 wn
B nr 1 rs 16
c 3 4 1 Wd
D 7 6 4 1Playing Facility
city A 8 c D
A 1 2 wa wn
B 2 ' 18 us.
c 4 3 1 us
D> 7 3 4 1
Soccer Media
Criterion Population Interest Market + Competition
Population 1 us nn 2
Soccer interest, 5 1 3 6
Media market 2 ws 1 3
‘Competition 2 6 1B 1
Playing facility 4 2
Playing
Fadlity
mn
In
12
a 2
Using AHP determine which city the owners should select to relocate to.[ case Problem
KATHERINE MiLLER’s Jon SELECTION
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nation ecology at Tech, For th pst fw months she
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‘ih various companies: She now ofr om ive
CompaniesAmercan Stems Developers, Ankessun
Constling. National Computing Sofware, Syst
(NESS). he GulF South Compan, nd Eeetonc Vilage
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tng are both ee ational onlin tems vith offen
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thor of thete fms, she would primary ork project
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ould be a Alana nif aceped Anders’ fle,
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opment company witha campus lation in Chicago
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te locted in Tampa, wre dhe would work in opetationt
Syston: She would be involved in decloping infomation
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tae inmal evel, Hocronto Vilage ia national chain
br ascout sore speitiing in cleric pode, such
4 televisions, DVR, CD player, MPS" players, and
emputers Her ob wi Elects Vilage wld bea
‘corporate headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, where she
‘would develop and maintain computer systems to be used
for inventory control atthe hundreds of Electronic Village
Stores across the country. She would be required to travel
very litle
"American Systems Developers has offered Katherine a
starting salary of $38,000 annually, and Anderasun Con:
‘sulting has offered her $41,000 per year. NCSS has offered
her an annual salary of $46,000, whereas Gulf-South hos
‘offered her $35,000 por year, and Electronic Village has
‘offered her a salary of $33,000 per year.
‘Katherine is having dificult time making her decision,
All the companies have excellent eputations, are financially
Iealy, and have good opportunities for advancement. All
‘are demanding in terms of the workload they require.
All five companies have given Katherine only afew weeks
to make a decision regarding thei offers.
‘Katherine has decided to use the analytical hierarchy
‘process (AHP) to help decide which job offer she should
‘accept. She has developed alist of erteria that are impor-
tant to her in deciding which job to take. The eriteria, in
‘no particular order, are (1) salary; (2) cost of living in the
city where she would be located; (3) amount of travel a:
sociated with her job; (4) climate (weather) where she
fed; (5) entertainment and cultural opportu
museums, parks, and so
‘on; (6) universities where she ean work on an MBA de-
‘gree parttime and at ight; (7) the erime rate in the city
where she would live; (8) the nature of the job and what
she would be doing: and (9) ber proximity to ftiends and
relatives. Katherine realizes that she has very limi
formation on which to compare the five jobs, based on
‘most of these criteria, so she knows she needs 10 0 to the
brary and do some research, especially on the five differ
‘ent job locations.
Put yourself in Katherine's shoes and, using all or
‘some of her criteria and your own preferences and know l=
‘edge, develop an overall ranking ofthe jobs, using AHP.