Identification and ranking of effective factors on job security of the faculty of universities with emphasis on autonomy of Islamic Azad

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mitra rezae ¹
• MohammadNaghi Imani ²
• kamran mohammad khani ³

¹ aslamic azad university garmsar branch

² Assistant Professor in Department of Educational Sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University,Roudehen, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Higher Education, Tehran University of Science and Research

Abstract

In this study which is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of quantitative heuristics and of structural equations branch, until the to present a model of factors affecting occupational safety of faculty members with emphasis on the independence of Islamic Azad University. The statistical population in the qualitative sector is composed of experts familiar with the subject (university professors in the field of study). In the selection of experts for interviewing the professors of the top 10 free universities in the country with theoretical saturation according to the ranking of webometrics in 1396 were selected as the statistical population. The statistical population in the quantitative section is composed of all faculty members of free universities throughout the country that number was over 30,000A sample of 384 was selected by simple random sampling. The data collection tool is the qualitative part of the interview and the quantitative part is a researcher-made questionnaireIts validity is confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis, and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and frequency as well as inferential statistics such as correlation coefficient and structural equations were used to analyze the collected data using Spss and Lisrel software. The results of the study show Financial, human, social, political, personal, structural and managerial factors were identified as factors related to job security with emphasis on university independence. The tests showf the other factor besides the social factor influences the job security of professors. Check the average rating that shows the priority of each agent, It shows that the political factor is first and foremost, the average political rating was 4.85 and higher than the average of other factors.On this basis, it can be said that the political factor has the greatest impact on job security. After the political factor, there is a management factor with an average rating of 4.81 and the third priority is the structural factor with an average rating of 4.72.

Keywords

• job security
• university independence
• qualitative content analysis

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