The Comparison of Faculty Member's Research Activities in State and Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran City, with the purpose of Presenting Methods for Faculty Member's Empowerment

This study aims to compare the research activities of faculty members in state and Islamic Azad universities of Tehran city in order to propose solutions for empowering them. The research Method is quantitative based on data collection and is descriptive-Survey based on its procedure. A researcher-made checklist was prepared including 32 items for evaluating professors’ research status. In addition, Spreitzer’s standard questionnaire (Reliability 0/906) was prepared to identify their empowerment status. The Statistical population of this study consisted of all full-time faculty members at state and Islamic Azad universities in Tehran city at 2014-2015 academic year, which were about 4685 and 2602 individuals, respectively in state and Islamic Azad universities. Accordingly, a sample of 487 and 390 individuals were chosen by Multistage Cluster sampling from each category. Data analysis, which was done by means of T-tests in SPSS software, revealed a desirable status for faculty members’ research activities; however, faculty members at state university had a better status.