Investigating and Specifying the Factors Affecting the Efficiency of Human Resources and Ranking the Factors among the Staff Members in Izeh Branch of Islamic Azad University

Subject Areas : Business Management

Mahmood Danyali Deh Hoz ¹ (Instructor ,Department of Accounting, Islamic Azad University, Izeh, Iran)
Sayed Mohsen Allameh ² (Associate Professor, Department of Management, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran)
Hossein Mansoori ³ (Ph.D student in Business Administration, Isfahan University, Management Department, Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2013-03-09 Accepted : 2013-06-29 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: Efficiency, Human Resource, Staff,

Abstract :

The present research aims to specify and rank the factors effective on the efficiency of the staff in Izeh Islamic Azad University. The statistical population includes all the staff of Izeh Azad University, from among whom 160 people were chosen randomly. This research is a descriptive survey and data gathering was done through both library and field methods. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for data collecting process. In order to analyze the data, we used T-student test and variance analysis (ANOVA). For ranking the factors effective on the efficiency of the staff, we used MADM techniques. The findings show that structural and management factors, professional factors, physical and mental factors in the work place, individual factors, and factors which provide intimacy and co-operations are the factors effective on the efficiency of human resource in this university. Furthermore, by using MADM techniques such as AHP and TOPSIS, we have drawn the conclusion that the factors providing intimacy and co-operation are the most effective factors on the efficiency of the staff in Izeh Islamic Azad University. Other effective factors are ranked as follows: structural and management factors, professional factors, individual factors and environmental and physical factors.

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