Designing and Defining the Effective Model of Universitie's Performance Appraisal

Like all other organizations the universities need their operations to be examined and assessed in order to benefit optimally and more effectively from their limited sources. Present study is to define a model to assess necessarily universities’ operations based on humanistic, research, and administrative- logistic, cultural and educational studies by contingency factors (Environment, size, life cycle) among Esfahan and Shiraz provinces. The present study data were collected by 64-question questionnaire and the universe included 322 members of scientific board, specialists and directors. Having examined the data it became known that all factors have positive and significant effects on the assessment except the cultural factor. Of course, such effect increases or decreases by contingency factors. The coefficient to define the study data indicates all humanistic, research, administrative- logistic, cultural and educational sources variables justify totally 68.30 percent of the operation assessment effective variable variance. By virtue of the gained path coefficient it can be said that the most effect was by the educational sources indicator (It had a greater path coefficient) and then the study sources, humanistic sources, administrative- logistic sources, cultural sources were second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively.