2023/01/10 by G. Nilay Yücenur
Business, Management and Accounting · #Collaboration in agile enterprises #Quality and Supply Management #Strategic Planning and Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.25762/fqwv-0695
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The fact that being more agile and adapting faster has become one of the most important\ncompetitiveness factors necessitates the transformation of traditional working styles. With the rapid\ndevelopment of technology and pandemic, flexible working forms have begun to replace traditional\nface-to-face working. For this reason, recently, businesses make strategic decisions about the working\nstyles of human resources, which are their most valuable input, has to take. This study includes the\nevaluation of flexible working styles with multi-criteria decision-making methods within the concept of\nSWOT analysis, which is one of the most important tools of strategic decision-making. For this\npurpose, in this study, a hierarchical model with 22 criteria and 5 alternatives was proposed. In this\nmodel, SWOT components were weighted with the ENTROPY technique, while alternative working\nstyles were evaluated with the fuzzy VIKOR method under fuzzy environment. After all calculations\nEmployment flexibility with the possibility of migration, Natural disaster and terror risk and Technology\ncost were found the most important criteria with the highest importance weight scores among 22\ncriteria and Working 3 days away from office in week was found the most preferable flexible working\nstyle for sample company with the highest Q index value among five alternative working styles.