Choosing project leader based on interval linguistic TOPSIS and social network technology

“Internal promotion” is not only a good tool to attract and reserve a person of talent but also can reduce the training cost because the worker had already worked for the enterprise many years. In the matrix organization, the project leader is not easy to acquire the engineers who he/she prefers for forming a team. A better project leader must try to cooperate with each engineer as easily as possible. In this study, Interval linguistic TOPSIS is combined with maximizing deviation method to evaluate the ability of each employee. Based on the importance of project leaders´ cooperation experiment with other member in the enterprise, this study modifies degree centrality (the index of social network analysis) to calculate the cooperation capacity of each employee. Project leader is selected by considering employees´ ability and their cooperation capacity simultaneously. For reader understanding proposed method, a numerical example will be implemented. Finally, a brief conclusion will be discussed.