Abstract
Islamic Azad universities are autonomous and non-profit institutions where almost all the expenses are provided through students` tuitions. In recent years in accordance with extreme quantitative development of institutions of higher education, reduction in the number of university student candidates, paltry increase in tuitions, and considerable increase in construction and current expenses, management of expenses in Azad universities has turned into a vital concern. The present study aims to examine working methods for decreasing the expenses of the universities, investigating the effect of five factors including targeting activities, organizing manpower, mechanizing systems, controlling, observing, and downsizing the university, on reducing expenses in Islamic Azad Universities. The study is conducted in descriptive survey method and the population of the study was all 320 faculty members of Islamic Azad university of Isfahan (Khorasgan) in March, 2014. 175 people were chosen by Morgan Table through available random sampling as the sample of the study. The instruments were questionnaires designed by the researcher and the data was analyzed through Uni-variate t Test, Friedman Test, and Analysis Variance through spss-19 software. The result revealed that all five factors in the study have significant effects on reducing expenses in the universities and manpower had the highest effect whereas, controlling and observing had the least effect. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s1p445
Highlights
Islamic Azad University is a non-profit institution and it was established in 1982 to fulfill the objectives mentioned in regulations for the establishment of non-profit institutes of higher educations
As it is shown in table 2, the mean of the effect of targeting universities activities is 3.88. on the other hand, calculated t was bigger than the t in the table and the meaning level is less than 0.05 it could be said surely that targeting Islamic Azad university activities has effect on the reducing expenses
Allocating highest mean to the "deleting repetitions and parallel works with no added value" by the faculty members might mean that in office jobs process, there are parallel activities and repetitions which waste universities resources and slow down the procedure of main activities of universities and that could result in losing motivations, quality, and validity of the university
Summary
Islamic Azad University is a non-profit institution and it was established in 1982 to fulfill the objectives mentioned in regulations for the establishment of non-profit institutes of higher educations. In the last two decades, the quantitative development of institutions of higher education and decreasing the population growth rate, have resulted in the reduction of student candidates to universities. Some branches of Islamic Azad universities which merely rely on tuitions from students to supply their financial resources have faced with serious problems because of the mentioned issues as well as inflation in recent years. To do so, investigating working methods on increasing financial resources and reducing expenses in Islamic Azad universities is essential. This perspective is of highest importance even in Branches in which financial issues have not been demanding yet and could be beneficial in having a promising future. The main question here is that what are the working methods on reducing expenses through the perspectives of faculty members in Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch?
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