Apply DEA Approach Regarding Institution's Goal for Faculty Performance Evaluation

Abstract

Comparing performance by conventional DEA model, some DMUs may be considered as efficient units because of their outstanding performance on some relative unimportant output items. For expressing the relative importance of those input or output items, adding multiplier restrictions on them is a possible method. In this research, we try to add the strictly predefined relationships of output items and analyze its effect in the existed model. According to this approach, only the DMUs that really match the predefined requirements and have good performance can be regarded as efficient units. This is meaningful for managerial practices. That is to say a DMU's performance is its capability which matches the goals that the organization pursues. A case of performance evaluation of faculty in different types of university with specific development orientation is provided to illustrate the proposed idea. According to the numerical experiment, the performances of the faculties may be dissimilar considering different types of universities. The significance of those efficient faculties is also different.

Keywords:

• Data envelopment analysis
• Multi-criteria
• Performance evaluation
• Higher education