As an experiment, a charity decides to use SMART to determine a shortlist from the seven

applicants who have applied for the post of Regional Officer for the Western Region. The main

criteria which will be used to compare candidates are: salary they would expect (SALARY), their

experience of charity work (CHARITY EXP), their managerial experience (MANAGEMENT

EXP), their educational qualifications (EDUCATION), their apparent commitment to the charity's

work (COMMITMENT) and the quality of the ideas they put forward on the form (IDEAS).

(a) Discuss if the weights of the attributes are appropriate. If so, why do you think so? If

not, why do you think the weights are not appropriate? (You don't need to discuss

whether the attributes are appropriate. Only focus on the "weights". This is your own

opinion and subjective. You don't need references for this.)

The personnel manager ranked all the criteria, except salary, in order of importance and

then assigned weights as follows:

COMMITMENT: 100

MANAGEMENT EXP: 70

IDEAS: 65

CHARITY EXP: 55

EDUCATION: 10

Candidate A's aggregated score is 50.

(You don't need to worry about how 50 was calculated.)

The other candidates' aggregated scores are found below.