
44 Organizational Resource Management
set can be dened mathematically by assigning to each possible individual in the
universe of discourse a value representing its grade of membership in the fuzzy set.
This grade corresponds to the degree to which that individual is similar to or com-
patible with the concept represented by the fuzzy set (Klir and Yuan 1995). In the
Evolute approach, the perception of different indicators becomes a degree of mem-
bership in fuzzy sets. Just like things are in real life, everything is a matter of degree
regarding organizational resources. Linguistic variables bridge the gap between the
mathematical base variable ...