Bulanık Bir Ortamda İş Seçimi: CEO'lara Göre Mesleğe Başlamak İçin En Uygun Kurum Nedir?
Job Choice In A Fuzzy Environment: According To Ceos, What is The Optimum Entity to Start Profession?

Author : Mohammad Farid Noorzad
Number of pages : 39-53

Abstract

Job choice or choosing a specific profession in an entity is something problematic issue and is not easy to do it. Because, on the one hand, objective and subjective criteria and a job seeker’s personal preferences as affecting factors, on the other hand, availability of different alternatives (entities or source of employment), have made it more complicated for a person to make choice where to start his/her profession. As result, job choice is a multi-criteria decision making problem, which means it can be affected by many factors. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to determine which entity is the optimal one for the job choice from the three alternatives (public sector, private sector and one’s own business) against five criteria (level of wage, job security, respectability and reputation in the society, job environment and flexible working time opportunity). To solve this problem, this paper used Fuzzy TOPSIS technique, which is one of the well-known Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. In fact, expert system based on the fuzzy logic is suitable approach for the job choosing process since it has been developed on the logic that human thoughts are not numbers, but linguistics terms. In this paper, three CEOs from the three companies located in Konya city, are the decision makers to help the job seeker in her/his job choice. This approach is composed of two steps. In step one; the decision makers weighted the criteria for the job choice. In the second step, decision makers weighted the alternatives against the criteria. The result of this research shows that setting up a business or one’s own business is the optimum alternative in job choice process.

Keywords

Fuzzy Topsis, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Job Choice

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