Many faculty are aware of decision-making as it is practiced in their own particular functional area. For example, Finance faculty use net present value as a single criterion to make a decision regarding the best investment, and, Human Resource faculty use intuitive judgment and written arguments to make and substantiate personnel decisions. However, many of us rarely venture into the consideration of more than one criterion for a variety of reasons: 1. The text does not show such usage and does not supply problems for its practice. 2. We have the perception that MCDM is esoteric and doesn't really apply to our academic area. 3. We have the perception that MCDM is difficult computationally, which may be difficult for our students. 4. We're not aware of the computational conveniences available from widely available packages like Excel and DecisionPlus. 5. We don't have the time to develop the MCDM subject ourselves - we've got more than enough to do given the course loads, research requirements and service requirements. The purposes or goals of the workshop, then, are to illustrate proven methods and tools for: 1. Teaching practical MCDM 2. Integrating practical MCDM into classes that are not primarily decision-making classes (e.g., accounting, finance, computer information sciences, human resources, marketing, management, etc.) 3. Integrating practical MCDM into our professional activities, e.g., for search committee work The approach to achieving the goals will be 'hands-on' mixed with brief presentations of basic concepts (as necessary). Attendees will be encouraged to bring a laptop computer with Excel installed. If possible, the attendee should also download the student version of the DecisionPlus package for use in the workshop. However, not having a computer at the workshop should not limit the usefulness of the workshop. Attendees will receive copies of cases, exercises, tutorials, etc. for subsequent use at their home institutions.
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