A hybrid of Borda and DEMTEL for productivity improvement


Naser Hamidi, Parisa Yousefi, Afsaneh Rahimi and Fehimeh Jabari


Human resources are believed the primary sources of building advanced technological enterprises in today's world. Improving productivity in human resources plays essential role on empowering employees. The proposed model of this paper uses a hybrid of Burda and DEMATEL to find important factors for improving manpower productivity. The proposed model of this paper uses DEMATEL technique to find cause and effect factors and propose a linear programming technique to find important factors influencing productivity improvement. The results of our survey indicate that job enrichment, service training and job enlargement and quality of work life and training embedded are among the most important factors improving manpower productivity promotion.


DOI: j.msl.2012.10.012

Keywords: DEMATEL ,Productivity ,Burda

How to cite this paper:

Hamidi, N., Yousefi, P., Rahimi, A & Jabari, F. (2012). A hybrid of Borda and DEMTEL for productivity improvement.Management Science Letters, 2(8), 2757-2764.


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