<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom: .5gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Due to the increasing competition of globalization and fast technological improvements, world markets demand companies to have quality and professional human resources. This can only be achieved by employing potentially adequate personnel. This research adopts the </span><a name="hit2"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">fuzzy TOPSIS as the analytical tool that determines the weights of each criterion. </span><a name="hit3"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Fuzzy theory provides a proper tool to encounter with uncertainties and complex environment. The purpose of this paper is to use the </span><a name="hit4"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">fuzzy TOPSIS method based on </span><a name="hit5"></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">fuzzy sets in solving personnel selection problem. The result obtained by Fuzzy TOPSIS show that the second person (P₂) is the best person that should be employed.</span></span></p>

Despite the huge investment in Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives by many organizations, KM projects are facing a high failure rate. One of the main reasons is the lack of alignment between business and KM strategies. This study aims to identify and prioritize the factors affecting strategic alignment between business and KM strategies. A comprehensive literature review integrated with the focus group method was used to identify and classify effective factors of KM strategic alignment. Next, a survey method was conducted to evaluate and prioritize the extracted factors suggested by the experts. Further, the sign test was used to analyze the priorities of these factors using Shannon’s entropy method. The results reveal that the key factors affecting strategic alignment between business strategies and KM include knowledge-based culture, KM governance, and strategic approach to KM, communication between KM and business, top management support, human resource capabilities, environmental and competitive factors and IT management capabilities. The findings provide a comprehensive KM-business strategic framework.

A rapidly changing environment threatens the survival of many organizations. The global economypropelled by booming regional economies, new media and information technology, universal consumercultures, emerging global standards, and opportunities for corporate cost-sharing, has dramaticallychanged the environment in which organizations exist today (Ohema,1998,p.17). The survival of manyorganizations is threatened, in part, by reluctance to adapt to the changing environment. "Ecology evolutionarytheory suggests that uncertain, volatile environments will support diverse organizationalforms and that the apparent winners will fluctuate from time to time as conditions change" ( Hannan andFreeman, 1989, p.27).