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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 1 Playing 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 Kostrerne sine is senior inthe depanment of nor nation ecology at Tech, For th pst fw months she Tnabenn involved oth snc pices, Sha ha ene cele resume, ith high grade pt average and Sho reord of camps prtpation inca al ct tes Asa rest she asada namberof goo interviews ‘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 ‘Anecetn Sena Develop and Anders Const tng are both ee ational onlin tems vith offen Several major ces. If Katherine acteped the eferof thor of thete fms, she would primary ork project teams aignedo develop decison suport norman ‘yaci for const Cents esa he cota. Take ‘ent with Ametean Systems Developer ber home bate ould be a Alana nif aceped Anders’ fle, ‘She wold be located in Washington,DC. Hover, in both eau she would be tavcing ages deal and could some times be on the rod aa cet locaton for as mach 60 Dimon, NCSS sa softwar unl conpur ystems deel opment company witha campus lation in Chicago ‘Although her ob with NCSS woul valve seme tavelng ‘tol navr ba mors hn oven wun oom CGu-South isa Bank holding company ta operates ight Stet bred is wrious Wane in se souteamere Stats Katherine cepted Gul South's fr, she would te locted in Tampa, wre dhe would work in opetationt Syston: She would be involved in decloping infomation 2a support stent fr ba pertong, an abe wonld 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.

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