The Study of Relationship between Organizational Life Cycle and Assessment of Universities Performance (A Case Study of the Universities of Isfahan and Fars Provinces)

Like all other organizations the Higher Education need their operations to be examined and assessed in order to benefit optimally. Present study is to define a model to assess necessarily universities’ operations based on humanistic, research, and administrative- logistic, cultural and educational studies by contingency factor (life cycle) among Esfahan and Shiraz provinces. The present study data were collected by 64-question questionnaire and the universe included 322 members of scientific board, specialists and directors. Having examined the data it became known that all factors have positive and significant effects on the assessment except the cultural factor. By virtue of the gained path coefficient it can be said that the most effect was by the educational sources indicator (It had a greater path coefficient) and then the study sources, humanistic sources, administrative- logistic sources, were second, third, fourth and cultural Sources With Negative path coefficient did not have any Effect on the assessment . Of course, such effect increases or decreases by life cycle contingency factor.