Multiple Ranking Methodology for Selecting Part of a Group Based on Combined Multiple Performance and/or Characteristics Criteria

摘要

A methodology for selecting a part of a group of many similar units (i.e. workers as part of a team, retail store locations as part of a store chain, bolts as part of a bolts lot of many similar bolts, etc.), based on the combination of multiple performance and/or characteristics criteria, which includes the following steps: identification of the source group out of which some will be selected, (i.e. team of 25 welders), specification of the exact number of selectees needed (i.e. 12 welders to be laid off), identification and definition of performance criteria to be considered (i.e. productivity, quality, tenure, attendance) and their weights, ranking the entire team by order of each separate criterion and assigning an individual ranking score (i.e. most productive welder will score 1, down to the least productive welder who scores 25), adding the respective ranking scores into an overall score, resorting the list of names by ascending order of the sum of all ranking scores, and selecting the bottom part of the thus obtained ordered list (i.e. bottom 12 welders will be selected for the reduction in workforce).