ALTERNATIVE APPROACH IN PERSONNEL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: ARAS METHOD

Abstract

Personnel performance evaluation is one of the critical tasks of human resources management. This process, which requires the evaluation of many factors together, brings with it various difficulties. The relative approach and absolute performance approaches used have their own limitations. ARAS method, which is one of the multi-criteria decision-making techniques, has the potential to evaluate many factors reflecting personnel performance together, overcoming the limitations of both approaches. The ARAS method offers a hybrid model structure that ensures objectivity and fairness in personnel performance evaluation by including both absolute performance criteria and relative evaluation. In this study, the use of the ARAS method in personnel performance evaluation and its advantages are revealed. For this purpose, an application is presented based on the 2023 publication performance evaluation of academic staff working in the same department at a state university. The results of the ARAS method were compared with the results of the TOPSIS method, which is frequently used in the literature. The comparison demonstrates the managerial advantages of the ARAS method, pointing to a critical distinction in its ability to identify performance differences and closeness to ideal performance.)