Strategies for the implementation of participatory management in universities based on Islamic sources

The dynamism of university system in order to achieve the goals of higher education, relies on the creation of appropriate institutional space, creating a spirit of trust, accountability, public participation of managers in the administration of the universities and to strengthen the participatory management culture, in order for the efficient use of financial, material and human resources and also physical spaces to provide the efficiency and productivity of the organization. This descriptiveanalytical article aims to investigate the strategies for the implementation of participatory management in universities using Islamic sources. The results have shown that: 1) based on Islamic verses and hadiths, division of labor, authority cession, group management and decentralization are the principal factors in participatory management. 2) Inappropriate organizational culture, labor allocation, lack of decentralization, wrong authority cession, and dictatorship of senior managers, are the barriers to application of the participatory management. 3) Strategies for the operationalization of participatory management in universities include structure, orientation, process and feedback.