Decision Analysis for Managers

Multiattribute Example

When we developed our objectives hierarchy for our job offer example (Figure 3.2 placed here as Figure 11.1),1 we had three fundamental objectives: financial, professional, and social. We’ve analyzed our three alternative job offers quite thoroughly from a financial perspective in the previous chapters. What we’re going to do now is score each job offer subjectively with respect to the professional and social fundamental objectives.

Figure 11.1. Objectives hierarchy, multiple job offers example.

Referring to Figure 11.1, when scoring the professional objective, we’d want to consider how challenging the job would be, ...