Applying multiple linguistic PROMETHEE method for personnel evaluation and selection

Personnel evaluation and selection is a very important activity for the enterprises. Different job needs different ability and the requirement of criteria which can measure ability is different. It needs a suitable and flexible method to evaluate the performance of each candidate according to different requirement of different job respect to each criterion. PROMETHEE is a ranking method quite simple in conception and application compared to other methods. In this paper, we use crisp value to express quantitative information and use 2-tuple linguistic valuable to express qualitative information. And then, linguistic PROMETHEE is used to calculate the outranking index of each candidate and determine the ranking order of candidates. According the outranking index of each candidate, the performance of each candidate can be expressed by 2-tuple linguistic valuable which has explicit meaning in management. Finally, an example is implemented to demonstrate the practicability of the proposed method.