Compiling Resources Allocation Policies in order to Promote the Effectiveness of Non-governmental Universities: A New Approach

Governments always use development programs and policy-making strategies in order to achieve their goals for development. In Iran, too, following the policies of other countries, several programs have been presented, and the prospective plan of the country has recently been compiled. In this model, universities have their special place as the center for scientific and technological development. In the current sensitive situation, universities can truly perform their mission in realizing the goals of the prospective plan only if they have proper performance. In the present study, by taking non-governmental universities into account and proposing a new approach, the researchers have compiled the promotion policies for the effectiveness of non-governmental universities based on the optimal use of their resources. The university resources have been considered in the three fields of human capital, relational capital, and structural capital in the research at hand, and accordingly, a questionnaire including 37 questions has been designed and distributed among the samples. Of the distributed questionnaires, 83 which had been filled out by university personnel and academic staff of the non-governmental universities of the country were returned. In this research, the relationship of the research variables has been studied through the use of structural equation modeling. The research has also revealed to some extent the other shortcomings of the non-governmental universities, and some suggestions have been presented for future researches in order to obviate them.