DEVELOPMENT OF AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS MODEL FOR FACULTY EVALUATION BASED ON PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Performance evaluation is a procedure of evaluating the work of the employees to recognize and utilize their competencies in connection to certain pre-established criteria and organizational objectives. It is often based on combined judgements or assessments periodically performed when faculty are rated against standards of performance. Performance evaluation of faculty members in a higher education is a serious challenge for faculty management. Several factors are considered leading to targeted professional growth of an organization to evaluate the performance. This task involves many selections that depends on different factors and judgement of these factors pose challenge in setting target values for all the output factors of the faculty. This study presents a multi-criteria model for faculty performance evaluation using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Different criteria affecting the performance evaluation of the faculty members were considered. In recent literature, AHP has been an emerging solution approach to complex real world multi-criteria decision making problems in order to assess the quality factors in evaluation need areas, measure the relative weight of each criterion, and to evaluate the overall performance evaluation. Based on these criteria, the performance of the faculty was evaluated and subsequently ranked