Group Decision Making: Drawing Out and Reconciling Differences

Peniwati, Kirti

doi:10.13033/ijahp.v9i3.533

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“…For this reason, in this analysis we will show the results obtained using Kendall's Tau‐b, which is the recommended statistic in the case of ties in the priorities. To study the compatibility between two priority vectors there are different proposals (Garuti, 2020), but the best known in the field of AHP/ANP application are: Saaty's S‐index which applies the Hadamard product (Saaty & Peniwati, 2008) and Garuti's G‐index which is based on a physical interpretation of the inner product of two vectors (Garuti, 2016; Garuti & Salomon, 2012). Table 13 shows the results of Kendall's Tau‐b correlation, with their respective p ‐value of statistical significance and the values of Saaty's S and Garuti's G compatibility indexes, for all combinations of priorities among experts and for each of them with the group.…”

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“…Once the needs have been identified in the previous step, this paper proposes to prioritize them according to their contribution to the SDGs. Multi‐criteria decision analysis techniques make it possible to manage the subjectivity inherent in any decision‐making process by establishing procedures to measure the judgments or preferences, always subjective, of the decision‐maker (Belton & Stewart, 2002; Saaty & Peniwati, 2008). The fact that judgments are subjective does not mean that they are arbitrary since they are based on the knowledge and experience of the experts or decision‐makers who make them.…”

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Assessment of regional development needs according to criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Meta Region (Colombia)

Aragonés‐Beltrán

González-Cruz

Camargo

et al. 2022

Sustainable Development

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When a regional government considers investing funds for the sustainable development of its region, it must consider the real needs of the population and the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The identification of needs should be carried out with the support of local stakeholders representing various social groups. This paper seeks to answer the question of how to guide public investment policies at the local level, such as improving education, health, transportation and others, to better meet the SDGs. To answer this question, a multi-criteria decision-making process is followed, whereby, once the needs are classified by investment areas, they are prioritized based on criteria derived from the SDGs. The problem is complex because of the difficulty of the local stakeholder engagement process and also because of the interrelationships and influences that arise between all the elements of the decision problem: criteria and alternatives. To address this complexity, the Analytical Network Process method combined with DEMATEL will be followed. This process is applied to the case study of the distribution of funds allocated by the Government of Colombia to the Meta Region (Colombia) with the participation of 48 stakeholders to identify needs and the support of six experts in sustainability and project management for their prioritization.

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Assessment of regional development needs according to criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Meta Region (Colombia)

Aragonés‐Beltrán

González-Cruz

Camargo

et al. 2022

Sustainable Development

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“…The research team has involved various types of experts, encompassing those dedicated to gender issues within the Spanish scienti c system and engineers specializing in energy. The MCDM technique we utilize relies heavily on the quality, rather than the quantity, of these experts due to its semi-quantitative and expert-oriented nature [39]. Experts' comprehensive understanding of their eld's implications within our case study's context and their holistic perspective on research centre activities are vital.…”

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Tackling Gender Disparities in Energy Research: A Diagnostic Tool for Equality in Research Centres

Sánchez-López,

Poveda-Bautista,

Corona-Sobrino

et al. 2023

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Background The unequal proportion of men and women in research organizations in the energy field is severe, and so are the dynamics long established that might determine differences in access to leadership positions and inequalities between men and women in research careers. The gender gap in historically masculinized fields such as energy engineering transcends beyond the number of men and women. This study aims to explore the gender gap in Energy Research Centres and to identify barriers that potentially hinder the research careers of women. We propose the development of a diagnostic tool based on indicators to monitor and evaluate gender roles and inequalities in the activity of research centres to identify and address the dynamics and obstacles that hinder women progress in the energy sector and their potential contribution to the field. This DEMATEL-ANP based tool prioritizes these indicators by their influence and importance in the context of energy research and is applied to the monitoring of a specific Spanish Energy Research Centre. Results The analysis of the main indicators shows that the insufficient representation of women within the organization remains a prominent issue. There is a prevailing belief within the research centre that only meritocracy drives success, dismissing other factors—especially gender—as irrelevant. Furthermore, there are a number of dynamics and conditions inherent to the Spanish Research and Innovation context that contribute to the drop out of women working in energy research. The lack of women in organisational leadership positions is pronounced in the case of the study and other particular dynamics are detected such as head positions being occupied only by men, or men not using work-life balance measures. However, the results suggest that, no gender gap is recognized by part of the staff and thus, no measures are being taken to improve the situation. Conclusions Comprehensive data and contextualized monitoring are necessary to effectively study and enhance the presence and participation of women in the energy science field. Our methodology, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques, is suitable for any research centre that would like to monitor its gender gap, identify potential sources of inequity and thus, address them. This methodology serves a dual purpose: it's both a diagnostic tool and a conversation starter driven by data that can be used to demonstrate the persistent existence of the gender gap that demands attention and resolution.

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“…In conclusion, "decision-content" and "decision analysis" are two of the three intertwined but different dimensions of decision-making and can be approached with a MCDM analyst consulting with experts about the decision or with decision experts learning a friendly MCDM methodology, like the AHP/ANP, to perform their own analysis. The third aspect of MCDM is the "decision-maker" and this recognition has led to the development of behavioral decision-making in the case of individuals (Simon, 1955), group decision-making in the case of groups or teams (Saaty & Peniwati, 2008) and public decision-making in the case of decisions affecting a large number of stakeholders (Gonzalez-Urango et al, 2021); however, this constitutes a topic for future discussions.…”

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Multicriteria Decision Making as Interdisciplinary Research

Mu¹

2023

IJAHP

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In their excellent recounting of the development of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) from its early history to the 21st century, Koksalan et al. (2011) proposed that MCDM is both old and new. It is old because decision makers have always had to make tradeoffs with objectives when making decisions; the authors refer to Benjamin Franklin’s approach to making decisions by trading off benefits and costs during the 1700’s. However, MCDM as an important sub-field of Management Science or Operations research is rather new and began in the late 1950s. The elements of decision making fundamentally consist of the “decision”, a “decision-maker” and a “decision analysis methodology.” This is the reason that the MCDM field is inherently interdisciplinary.

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Group Decision Making: Drawing Out and Reconciling Differences

Cited by 37 publications

References 2 publications

Assessment of regional development needs according to criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Meta Region (Colombia)

Assessment of regional development needs according to criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Meta Region (Colombia)

Tackling Gender Disparities in Energy Research: A Diagnostic Tool for Equality in Research Centres

Multicriteria Decision Making as Interdisciplinary Research

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