KATHERINE MILLER’S JOB SELECTION

Katherine has had a number of good interviews with various companies. She now has job offers from
five companies—American Systems Developers, Anderssun Consulting, National Computing Software
Systems (NCSS), the Gulf-South Company, and Electronic Village with 5 differents criteria to compare:

American Systems NCSS Gulf-South Electric Village

Anderssun Consulting
Developer Software & computer Bank Holding (8 diff. Electronic product
Consulting Firms Consulting Firms system development bank and many branches) company

$38.000 $41.000 $46.000 $35.000 $32.000

• Located in Atlanta • Located in Washington • Located in Chicago • Located in Tampa • Located in Nashville
• cost of living $28.800 • Cost of living $35.400 • Cost of living $27.500 • Cost of living $23.500 • Cost of living $26.500
• Work travel 6 – 9 • Work travel 6 – 9 • Work travel : several • Work travel : minimum • Work travel : very little
months in a year months in a year times • Available University : 2 • Available University : 4
• Available University : 5 • Available University : 8 • Available University : 9 • Specific job • Very Specific job
• Most Complex job • Most Complex job • Specific job requirement : requirement : Product
requirement requirement requirement : IT Operation system stock control
system
 PAIRWISE COMPARISON’S MATRIX
Criteria: Universities
Company: Company
Salary Cost of Livng Univ Amount of Travel Nature of The Job A B C D E
American Systems Developers (A) 1 1/6 1/5 5 2
American Systems Dev (A) $38,000 $28,800 5 very high most complex
Anderssun Consulting (B) 6 1 1/3 8 4
Anderssun Consulting (B) $41,000 $35,400 8 very high most complex
NCSS (C.) 5 3 1 9 7
NCSS (C.) $46,000 $27,500 9 medium medium Gulf-South (D) 1/5 1/8 1/9 1 1/3
Gulf-South (D) $35,000 $23,500 2 minimal tavel less complex Electric Village (E.) 1/2 1/4 1/7 3 1
Electric Village (E.) $32,000 $26,500 4 very little Spesific TOTAL 12 2/3 4 1/2 1 4/5 26 14 1/3

Salary Amount of Travel

Company Company
A B C D E A B C D E
American Systems Developers (A) 1 1/3 1/5 3 5 American Systems Developers (A) 1 1/4 1/6 1/8 1/9
Anderssun Consulting (B) 3 1 1/3 6 8 Anderssun Consulting (B) 4 1 1/4 1/6 1/7
NCSS (C.) 5 3 1 7 9 NCSS (C.) 6 4 1 1/4 1/5
Gulf-South (D) 1/3 1/6 1/7 1 3 Gulf-South (D) 8 6 4 1 1/3
Electric Village (E.) 1/5 1/8 1/9 1/3 1 Electric Village (E.) 9 7 5 3 1
TOTAL 9 1/2 4 5/8 1 4/5 17 1/3 26 TOTAL 28 18 1/4 10 2/5 4 1/2 1 4/5

Cost of Living
Company Nature of The Job
A B C D E Company
A B C D E
American Systems Developers (A) 1 1/7 1/2 1/7 1/3
American Systems Developers (A) 1 1/2 1/5 1/8 1/9
Anderssun Consulting (B) 7 1 1/5 1/9 1/8 Anderssun Consulting (B) 2 1 1/4 1/5 1/7
NCSS (C.) 2 5 1 1/5 1/2 NCSS (C.) 5 4 1 1/3 1/5
Gulf-South (D) 7 9 5 1 3 Gulf-South (D) 8 5 3 1 1/2
Electric Village (E.) 3 8 2 1/3 1 Electric Village (E.) 9 7 5 2 1
TOTAL 20 23 1/7 8 2/3 1 4/5 5 TOTAL 25 17 1/2 9 4/9 3 2/3 2
 DEVELOPING PREFERENCES WITHIN CRITERIA
Normalized Matrix
Salary Row Cost of Living Row
Company Company
A B C D E Average A B C D E Average
American Systems Developers (A) 0.10 0.07 0.11 0.17 0.19 0.13 American Systems Developers (A) 0.05 0.01 0.06 0.08 0.07 0.05
Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.31 0.22 0.19 0.35 0.31 0.27 Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.35 0.04 0.02 0.06 0.03 0.10
NCSS (C.) 0.52 0.65 0.56 0.40 0.35 0.50 NCSS (C.) 0.10 0.22 0.11 0.11 0.10 0.13
Gulf-South (D) 0.03 0.04 0.08 0.06 0.12 0.06 Gulf-South (D) 0.35 0.39 0.57 0.56 0.61 0.50
Electric Village (E.) 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.02 0.04 0.03 Electric Village (E.) 0.15 0.35 0.23 0.19 0.20 0.22
TOTAL 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 TOTAL 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Amount of Travel Row Universities Row

Company Company
A B C D E Average A B C D E Average
American Systems Developers (A) 0.04 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.03 American Systems Developers (A) 0.08 0.04 0.11 0.19 0.14 0.11
Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.14 0.05 0.02 0.04 0.08 0.07 Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.47 0.22 0.19 0.31 0.28 0.29
NCSS (C.) 0.21 0.22 0.10 0.06 0.11 0.14 NCSS (C.) 0.39 0.66 0.56 0.35 0.49 0.49
Gulf-South (D) 0.29 0.33 0.38 0.22 0.19 0.28 Gulf-South (D) 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.03
Electric Village (E.) 0.32 0.38 0.48 0.66 0.56 0.48 Electric Village (E.) 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.12 0.07 0.07
TOTAL 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 TOTAL 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Nature of The Job Row

Company
A B C D E Average
American Systems Developers (A) 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.04
Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.08 0.06 0.03 0.05 0.07 0.06
NCSS (C.) 0.20 0.23 0.11 0.09 0.10 0.15
Gulf-South (D) 0.32 0.29 0.32 0.27 0.26 0.29
Electric Village (E.) 0.36 0.40 0.53 0.55 0.51 0.47
TOTAL 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 PREFERENCE VECTOR FOR CRITERIA
Cost of Amount of Nature of Cost of Amount of Nature of Row
CRITERION Salary Universities CRITERION Salary Universities
Livng Travel The Job Livng Travel The Job Average

Salary 1 3 4 8 2 Salary 0.45 0.60 0.53 0.35 0.21 0.43

Cost of Livng 1/3 1 2 6 3 Cost of Livng 0.15 0.20 0.27 0.26 0.32 0.24
Universities 1/4 1/2 1 5 3 Universities 0.11 0.10 0.13 0.22 0.32 0.18
Amount of Travel 1/8 1/6 1/5 1 1/3 Amount of Travel 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.04
Nature of The Job 1/2 1/3 1/3 3 1 Nature of The Job 0.23 0.07 0.04 0.13 0.11 0.11
Total 2 1/5 5 7 1/2 23 9 1/3 Total 1 1 1 1 1 1

PREFERENCE VECTOR CRITERIA PREFERENCE MATRIX (based on normalized matrix row averages : slide 7th)
CRITERION Cost of Amount of Nature of
Company Salary Universities
Salary 0.43 Livng Travel The Job
American Systems Developers (A) 0.13 0.05 0.03 0.11 0.04
Cost of Livng 0.24
Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.27 0.10 0.07 0.29 0.06
Universities 0.18
NCSS (C.) 0.50 0.13 0.14 0.49 0.15
Amount of Travel 0.04 Gulf-South (D) 0.06 0.50 0.28 0.03 0.29
Nature of The Job 0.11 Electric Village (E.) 0.03 0.22 0.48 0.07 0.47
Total 1.00

Overall Ranking Consistency Analysis

2.40 0.43 5.59
Company Score
1.32 0.24 5.49 CI 0.089565409 Average – n / (n-1)
American Systems Developers (A) 0.08 0.94 0.18 5.34
Anderssun Consulting (B) 0.17 0.21 0.04 5.28 CI/RI 0.079969115 CI / RI < 0.10 = Satisfactory
NCSS (C.) 0.30 0.59 0.11 5.10
Gulf-South (D) 0.23 Average 5.36
Electric Village (E.) 0.21
Total 1.00
AHP : KATHERINE’S JOB SELECTION

Job selection
GOALS : 1.000

Salary Cost of Living Amount of travel University Nature Of Job

CRITERIA : 0.43 0.04 0.18 0.11
0.24

American Anderssun NCSS Gulf-South Electric

Systems Company
ALTERNATIVES : Development Consulting Village
0.08 0.17 0.30 0.23 0.21
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