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Selecting an Effective Leader: A Competency-Based Grey Relational Analysis Model

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Eurasian Business Perspectives

Part of the book series: Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics ((EBES,volume 13/2))

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The accurate and targeted process of selecting the most appropriate human resources can be a key factor in organizational success. The increasing attention to the leadership factor in making organizational developments across the world and the key role of effective leader show the need to use effective methods to recruit effective leaders. In this chapter, based on the proposed model with the help of analytical hierarchy process (AHP), the main criteria on the leadership effectiveness in the organization are weighted. Then, each candidate is scored based on the mentioned criteria with the grey relational analysis (GRA). In this method, candidates with higher scores are introduced as the model selection. Since the grey relational theory follows some assumptions and principles such as nonuniqueness of solution and availability of minimum information, it can be used to greyly select leaders and make decisions on leaders when there is uncertainty and incomplete information.

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  1. University of Applied Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Zagross Hadadian

  2. Faculty of Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

    Mona Saedi

  3. Faculty of Management, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

    Zahra Arabkorlu

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  1. Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin

  2. MUFG Union Bank, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Hakan Danis

  3. Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ender Demir

  4. School of Management and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul Sehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ahmet Faruk Aysan

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Hadadian, Z., Saedi, M., Arabkorlu, Z. (2020). Selecting an Effective Leader: A Competency-Based Grey Relational Analysis Model. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Aysan, A. (eds) Eurasian Business Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 13/2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40160-3_5

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