نشریه تحقیقات مدیریت آموزشی
پیاپی 4 (تابستان 1389)

Iin order to investigate the effect of information and communication instruction (ICT) on the staff’s efficiency in charity institution and endowment organization in year 1388, a descriptive method was chosen.   The population included 130 employees of Charity and Endowment Organization.  The research tool was a validiated questionnaire.  After factor analysis using SPSS Software, statistical analsis (descriptive and inferential) for all three subsidiary assumptions under investigation were applied.  Variables were gender (men and women), education level (Diploma, associate Diploma, B.A, and M.A) and work experience (low experience B.A.  and M.A. holders), the results showed that: first assumption that is,  communication and information technology instruction has more effect on the effiency of men tha women; regarding the second assumption, communication and information technology instruction has the same effect on experienced and low experienced staff; considering the third assuonption, communication and information technology instruction has the same effect on all staff with different academic degrees.  However, when the effect of communication and information technology instruction was studied individually, it appeared that it had more effect on specialists with Diploma than those with Associate Diploma or higher degrees.

The present study aims at the internal and external accreditating of inservice educational centers of Islamic Azad Universities, Zone 10.  It has ranked the phases of inservice educational activities (accreditation, planning, performance and evaluation) in zone 10, in order to specify the sufficiency of inservice educational centers. The method of research is descriptive, its purpose is applied, and  its implementation is descriptive and survey type.  Statistical population consist of 2600 staff, faculty members and managers of all branches of Zone 10.  Using stratified random sampling, and based on Q test, 324 people were selected as research sample.  In order to collec data, a researcher-made questionnaire with the reliability of 0.87 was used.   The results showed that: assessment was %75, planning was %77, performance was %78, and evaluation was %80.  In order to analyze the data, T and F tests (ANOVA) and Scheffe test (L.S.D) were employed.  The results showed that there is a significant difference between average of sufficiency number in observance of accreditation principles in different branches. And the performance phase has the most sufficiency. Shahrood Branch is in the first place concerning the sufficiency number in observance of accreditation principles and Gorgan, and  Minou Dasht Branches are in the second and third place respectivel.

The main purpose of the research has been to investigate the components of the philosophy and purposes, policies, diciplines, and  criteria of choosing the place of education, strategies of supplying financial resources, forms of sending students to abroad, the cost of education and the scientific qualifications of graduates in sending university students abroad in order to present a suitable comprehending framework in the system of the country's Higher Education. In order to do this, first, regarding the research background and theoretical bases, the primary components were identified.  Then, the obtained components were ordered in a structure.  The research methodology is descriptive (documental and survey type).  The research population consisted of all members of faculty with at least the academic status of assistant professor in all universities of Iran. The whole population comprised 13649 university teachers and the related documents of sending students abroad were the other main source of extracting the research data.  The research sample was selected randomly out of the given population using the method of random sampling of multi-step clustering.  The obtained sample consisted of 386 members of faculty.  The research tools were two researcher-made questionnaires whose validity was obtained by applying the experts' feedback and the project reader and counsellor. The reliability of the tools was extracted by administering them to a sample of 30 subjects as pilot study and the obtained index 0.92 for Chronbach's Alpha.  While the researcher followed the procedure of descriptive analysis, the obtained data resulting from administering the research tools based on the different items of the questionnaires were analyzed using the statistical methods and single-group t-test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Based on the obtained data a comprehending framework was suggested for sending the students abroad. The components of philosophy and the purposes of sending students abroad, the policies of sending students abroad, the regulations of sending students abroad, the criteria for selecting the foreign country, the strategies of supplying the financial sources for sending students, and the types of sending students explain the proportion of the suggested comprehending framework for sending the students abroad obtaining the co-efficients of 0.86 , 0.88 , 0.92 , 0.80 , 0.85 , and 0.90 respectively

As an organization is a network of an administrative and operational process, and it is led by human beings, the management of human resources is considered as an effective factor which affects the staff’s efficiency and effectiveness. Hence, the present study is to investigate the intraorganizational factors causing stress among the staff of Islamic Azad University, Roudehen branch. The statistical population of this survey consisted of the whole working staff in Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch in the academic year of 1388- 89.  The study method was descriptive and surve type.  To collect the primary data, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. Using Cokran formula, 212 staff were chosen.  The results showed that the staff’s understanding and notion towards factors which cause stress in academic environment is at the usual level and a little more than the average level. In addition, out of all components under investigation, it can be concluded that career factors, organizatinal factors, physical factors of work place, and group factors have had the most effect on creating stress respectively.

The main goal of this research is the study of the relationship between organizational culture and organizational entrepreneurship among emplogees of Lorestan university.  The population consisted of all employees of LorestanUniversity in the Academic Year of 88-89, that is, 300 employees among which 175 were selected as research sample through applying simple random sampling.  The  Cronbach's Alpha coefficient for the organizational culture questionnaire was 0.81 while this coefficient was 0.79 for entrepreneurial organization.  The results of the study showed that There are significant relationship among three components of organizational culture (i.e., integration and cohesion, management support, and reward system) and entrepreneurial organization.  But the results regarding the sense of identity and organizational componet of institutional entrepreneurship showed there is no significant relationship between these two variables.  Finally, there was high positive correlation between the dimensions of organizational culture in university and institutional entreprenearship.

This study investigated the effects of principal components of quality management in work-life quantity of teachers in Tehran city in the Academic Year of 1388.  The methology of research was survey descriptive type.  The research population included all teachers (i.e., 7254 teachers) in Tehran teachers and simple random sampling, Morgan table, was applied and 385 teachers were selected.  Measuring instrument was a questionnaire and it was developed after deep study, and theoretical research done in Iran and the world. The main components of quality management which include: wisdom, partnership development, removing barriers, process, creativity, pride and enjoying work, and the fear of change were detected.  In order to examine the validity of thr tool, a group of experts examined and confirmed its validity. The coefficient of reliability of the questionnaire of quality of life was 0.96, and it was 0.86 for the questionnaire of working with the community.  Inferential statistics of the multi-way ANOVA and Friedman test were applied and the following results were obtained.  Based on research results, from the perspective of teachers in Tehran, All major components of TQM on quality of work life of teachers had a positive impact, and improve the quality of educational services, and the components of participating teachers and wisdom had the most effect on quality of work life and removing barriers of fear had the least effect.

This article seeks to clarify the role of transformational management in promotion of organizational efficiency in very large branches of Islamic Azad Universities in Mazandaran. The questions the researchers tried to investigate in this paper were related to the connection between transformational  management and personnel's empowerment, the flourishing of personnel's potential talents, people's participation in organization objectives, implementation, effectiveness, and  personnel's education as well as the popularization of cooperative moral in individuals.  The research method  of this paper is descriptive and the survey  type.  The opinions of experts and members of faculty were asked in order to determine important indices, and professors were asked in order to study the connection between transformational  management and personnel empowerment.  The research tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. The study population was 986 people  and the method of sampling was random and the number of subjects as research sample consisted of 278 staff.  The results showed the role of transformational management in promotion organizational efficiency in very large branches of Islamic Azad Universities in Mazandaran .

Creativity is the talent of diverging thought, the possibility of new and original thought and deviance of common beliefs. In educational system, especially in primary schools which is the unfoldment top of the talent, many factors are considered to be obstacles for talent. The present research has examined the obstacles for creativity unfoldment of primary school students  from primary school teachers’ point of view in educational zone of Helilan. The research method is of survey type.  The data collecting method was library method.  In order to examine the validity of the researcher-made questionnaire, a group of experts and specialists in the related field confirmed it.The tool's reliability was tested through computing Cronbach's Alpha coefficient.  Case study sample included 94 male and female teachers of primary schools in Helilan zone. The obtained data were analyzed utilizing descriptive and inferential statistics (Spearman correlation coefficient).  The final results showed that: there is relationship between teacher’s teaching and creativity unfoldment of primary school students; there is relationship between the content text books and creativity unfoldment of primary school students; there is relationship between teachers and students’ use of material and educational facilities and creativity unfoldment of primary school students; there is no relationship between assessment of primary school students and their creativity unfoldment.