Investigation of the effective factors on the job satisfaction of the members of Scientific Board of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

mohamad ali faghih nia¹ hosein ali bahram zadeh²

1) Department of Management, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
2) Department of Management, bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, bojnourd, Iran

IOI Code : XYBZ-ZGKFE
Publication : International Conference On modern Researchs in Management, Economics and Accounting(1meaconf.com)
Abstract :
    Regarding to the importance of the job satisfaction of the members of Scientific Board in developing the academic purposes and more usefulness, the purpose of this study was to investigate the job satisfaction of the members of Scientific Board of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad and the effective factors on this satisfaction. The method of this research was measurement. The statistical community consisted of the members of Scientific Board of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The data was collected through the systematic grading causal method within the faculties of the Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The questionnaires were distributed to the 210 members of the scientific boards of four faculties of Human Sciences, Basic Sciences, Medical Sciences and Technical and Engineering and finally 200 questionnaires were usable. The questionnaire which made by the researcher was used in data collection. The variable of the job satisfaction was arranged in 6 levels of the salaries and fringe benefits, the development opportunities, the manner of the management and communications, job security, the physical conditions of the job environment and the nature of the job. In order to performing the descriptive analysis, the intended questionnaire was prepared and distributed to the experts and professional and the external and content descriptions of the tools were investigated. Meanwhile, the method of construct validity was used with the assistance of the confirmative factor analysis. According to the kmo which was more than 0.7, the correlation between the data is suitable for factor analysis. The index of k square in Bartlett sphere is p<0.001 for all items which is meaningful in statistics. Moreover, the Cronbakh’s Alpha was more than 0.7, therefore , the correlation between the items was more and the research’s tools had the suitable permanency. The collected data was analyzed according to the descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage and average) and deductive statistics (Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Single T, one-way variance analysis) which were performed with the software of SPSS. According to the results, there is a correlation between the background variables (scientific grade, executive responsibility, scientific degree and faculty) and the job satisfaction of the members of the scientific board. Totally, the amount of the job satisfaction of the respondents was low.

Keywords : job satisfaction members of the scientific board scientific grade executive responsibility scientific degree