Applications of fuzzy decision making for personnel selection problem: A review

Abstract

Personnel selection determines the input quality of personnel, therefore, plays a decisive role in human resource management. Personnel selection problem has been studied extensively. Selecting the best personnel among many alternatives is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. The necessity of dealing with uncertainty in real world problems has been a long-term research challenge that has originated different methodologies and theories. Fuzzy decision making along with their extensions have provided a wide range of tools that are able to deal with uncertainty in different types of problems. Fuzzy decision making methods have become increasingly popular in decision making for personnel selection. Various decision making approaches have been proposed to solve the problem. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review of the applying Fuzzy decision making techniques in personnel selection problem.