Fashion designer selection with the method of GRA-based intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria decision making

Abstract

Personnel selection is a decision making problem based on the determination of the most suitable individual in line with the determined criteria, as known. Particularly in the labor-intensive sectors, such as apparel, the choice of the right personnel is a crucial problem and plays a key role in continuing the life cycle of companies successfully. In this study, the fashion designer selection process is examined for the design departments which are one of the most important organs for the apparel companies. For this purpose, the most suitable designer was chosen for an apparel company operating in Izmir province. In order to fulfill the aim, criteria weights which play an active role in designer selection are obtained through AHP method, and intuitive fuzzy logic sets are utilized to enable the evaluations of the candidates by the experts according to the criteria. In the light of these data, the final choice was conducted with the method of grey relational analysis.