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Uzoka and Seleka 27in the decision process. The functionality of the model has been demonstrated in order toshow its ability to assist in carrying out comparative assessment of professional organizations.The study reported in this paper has considered the measurement of performance ofprofessional organizations. The model can be expanded in future for the purpose ofgeneralization to include the evaluation of other sectors of the nation’s economy such asmanufacturing organizations and government establishments. Furthermore, future study couldconsider the use of Factor Analysis in the factorizing the decision variables and determiningtheir relative contributions to a factor model. An integration of the levels of confidence of thedecision experts in determining the pairwise comparison of the variables is also a subject offurther study.27
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