A Systematic Approach to the Management of Military Human Resources through the ELECTRE-MOr Multicriteria Method

Personnel selection is increasingly proving to be an essential factor for the success of organizations. These issues almost universally involve multiple conflicting objectives, uncertainties, costs, and benefits in decision-making. In this context, personnel assessment problems, which include several candidates as alternatives, along with several complex evaluation criteria, can be solved by applying Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. Uncertainty and subjectivity characterize the choice of personnel for missions or promotions at the military level. In this paper, we evaluated 30 Brazilian Navy officers in the light of four criteria and 34 subcriteria. To support the decision-making process regarding the promotion of officers, we applied the ELECTRE-Mor MCDM method. We categorized the alternatives into three classes in the modeling proposed in this work, namely: Class A (Promotion by deserving), Class B (Promotion by seniority), and Class C (Military not promoted). As a result, the method presented 20% of the officers evaluated with performance corresponding to class A, 53% of the alternatives to class B, and 26.7% with performances attributed to class C. In addition, we presented a sensitivity analysis procedure through variation of the cut-off level λ, allowing decision-making on more flexible or rigorous scenarios at the discretion of the Naval High Administration. This work brings a valuable contribution to academia and society since it represents the application of an MCDM method in state of the art to contribute to solving a real problem.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Aplicação de cenários prospectivos em uma empresa júnior de consultoria em engenharia e gestão de negócios

Sabe-se que o mundo corporativo é altamente volátil e suscetível a transformações. Portanto, espera-se que os gestores disponham de informações e dados cada vez mais ricos e oportunos para tomar decisões. Entretanto, o que acontece é que habitualmente gestores consideram apenas a situação ou cenário em que a decisão é tomada. Nesse sentido, o presente projeto busca estruturar três cenários futuros para auxiliar gestores de uma empresa júnior de engenharia e gestão de negócios a compor seu portfólio de projetos. Foi utilizado método Momentum para prospecção de cenários na Meta Consultoria, de modo que os resultados a ajudem no desafio de lidar efetivamente com as incertezas acerca dos próximos anos. A partir dos dados coletados foram criados três possíveis cenários futuros, que poderão apoiar no problema de seleção de portfólio de projetos e auxiliar os decisores da companhia a se precaverem para o pior cenário e maximizar o aproveitamento do melhor dos cenários estruturados.It is known that the corporate world is highly volatile and susceptible to transformations. Therefore, managers must have increasingly rich and timely information and data to make decisions. However, what happens is that managers usually consider only the situation or scenario in which the decision is made. In this sense, this study seeks to structure three future scenarios to help managers of a junior consulting enterprise in engineering and business management to make up its project portfolio. Momentum method was used for prospecting scenarios at Meta Consulting so that the results help her in the challenge of effectively dealing with uncertainties about the coming years. From the collected data, three possible future scenarios were created, which could support the project portfolio selection problem and help the company's decision-makers avoid the worst-case scenario and maximize the use of the best- structured scenarios.54 p

Advancing Efficiency Sustainability in Poultry Farms through Data Envelopment Analysis in a Brazilian Production System

The production efficiency factor is widely used to measure the zootechnical performance of a batch of broilers. The unit cost of production brings new elements to improve efficiency evaluation and financial sustainability for this activity in agriculture. This research aims to evaluate the production efficiency level of the crop to maximize the return on investment. This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the computational processing of the SIAD software (Integrated Decision Support System). The variables selected were poultry housing, age at slaughter, feed consumed, mortality, and unit cost. The chosen output variable was the total available weight. The analysis spans 31 decision-making units (DMUs) composed of integrated producers, unveiling a frontier of efficiency delineated by the most exemplary DMUs. Notably, only two DMUs, specifically DMU 4 and DMU 23, approached the threshold of maximum relative efficiency. This research illuminates the critical role of unit cost in enhancing the assessment of production efficiency and financial sustainability within the agriculture environment. By setting benchmarks for efficient management and operational protocols, our findings serve as a cornerstone for improving practices among less efficient DMUs, contributing significantly to the literature on agricultural efficiency and offering actionable insights for the poultry farming sector