Determination of the effective criteria for production manager selection in furniture industry

Determination of the effective criteria in decision making to select production manager in furniture industries is main activity to increase the unit's efficiency. For know – how of effective criteria in manager selection, 9 units were searched in the country. These criteria were divided into five major groups and 10 sub-sections. A hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of criteria. Analytical Hierarchy Process then established the weights of the indicators. The result showed that Overall Inconsistency Index is 0.01 and among 12 effective criteria in manager selection for furniture industry, importance of training, acquisition of technical knowledge in experiment, acquisition of technical knowledge in theory, internal social communication and lateral skills have high priority, respectively.