Job Performance Evaluation for Construction Companies: An Analytic Network Process Approach
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 132, Issue 8
Abstract
This paper aims at presenting a job performance evaluation process for construction companies. Human resource is a core economic asset. Organizations are responsible for helping their employees work at their optimal level. Job performance evaluations become an essential organizational activity, which can sustain employee performance. Existing literature has suggested that the construction industry does not pay attention to the importance of job performance evaluation. This paper presents the use of the analytic network process (ANP) to assign weights to a set of job performance criteria. It also describes a process for job performance evaluation. An example is demonstrated to illustrate how to construct the supermatrix for ANP.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. The paper was partially supported by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under Grant No. UNSPECIFIEDG-YW72.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 132 • Issue 8 • August 2006
Pages: 827 - 835
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© 2006 ASCE.
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Received: Jun 10, 2003
Accepted: Feb 8, 2006
Published online: Aug 1, 2006
Published in print: Aug 2006
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