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dc.contributor.advisorMousavi, A-
dc.contributor.authorShekarriz, Mona-
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-09T12:36:56Z-
dc.date.available2011-06-09T12:36:56Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5257-
dc.descriptionThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research aims at finding a foundation for assessment of capabilities and applying the concept in a human resource selection. The research identifies a common ground for assessing individuals’ applied capability in a given job based on literature review of various disciplines in engineering, human sciences and economics. A set of criteria is found to be common and appropriate to be used as the basis of this assessment. Applied Capability is then described in this research as the impact of the person in fulfilling job requirements and also their level of usage from their resources with regards to the identified criteria. In other words how their available resources (abilities, skills, value sets, personal attributes and previous performance records) can be used in completing a job. Translation of the person’s resources and task requirements using the proposed criteria is done through a novel algorithm and two prevalent statistical inference techniques (OLS regression and Fuzzy) are used to estimate quantitative levels of impact and utilisation. A survey on post graduate students is conducted to estimate their applied capabilities in a given job. Moreover, expert academics are surveyed on their views on key applied capability assessment criteria, and how different levels of match between job requirement and person’s resources in those criteria might affect the impact levels. The results from both surveys were mathematically modelled and the predictive ability of the conceptual and mathematical developments were compared and further contrasted with the observed data. The models were tested for robustness using experimental data and the results for both estimation methods in both surveys are close to one another with the regression models being closer to observations. It is believed that this research has provided sound conceptual and mathematical platforms which can satisfactorily predict individuals’ applied capability in a given job. This research has contributed to the current knowledge and practice by a) providing a comparison of capability definitions and uses in different disciplines, b) defining criteria for applied capability assessment, c) developing an algorithm to capture applied capabilities, d) quantification of an existing parallel model and finally e) estimating impact and utilisation indices using mathematical methods.en_US
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dc.publisherBrunel University School of Engineering and Design PhD Theses-
dc.relation.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/5257/3/FulltextThesis.pdf-
dc.subjectCapability theoryen_US
dc.subjectPerson-environment fiten_US
dc.subjectJob evaluationen_US
dc.subjectAdaptive neuro fuzzy inference systemen_US
dc.subjectFuzzy logicen_US
dc.titleThe foundation of capability modelling: A study of the impact and utilisation of human resourcesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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