Estimating required administrative staffing based on timing method in Shiraz University of Medical Science

The aim of this study is to determine an index for calculating required administrative human resources in staff department, and consequently specify the shortage or extra of employees working in organization. To determine the basic parameters for determining the administrative workload and the volume of office work, a project has been carried out using Workout and timing methods in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The project steps include: recognizing and reforming process, mining activities, recording standard time by researcher made forms and chronometers, and finally calculating favorable workload. Then the effective factors on employee’s workload have been analyzed. The Pierson Correlation, Anova and T Student Statistical test through the SPSS and EXCELL software have been used for data analysis. The result showed that, none of the constituent elements of salary’s determination, including: work experiences, education, type of employment have no effect on workload. On the other hand, changing in the amount of workload, which have been assigned to the employee has no effect on their salary. But the employee’s workload is depended on the number of their colleagues, who are working in the same department. Therefore, it is considered as a criterion to determine the number of required secretary in administrative department. In conclusion, it is worth mentioning that suggested framework upon which the possibility of modifying the structure of continuous workload in, is provided order to evaluate employees and estimate the human resources required in government agencies using the results of this study.