A Study on the Plan of Human Resource Organization and Management in the Ministry of Education in Iran

Abstract

Providing the plan for human resource organization and management is one of the acts done over the recent years in order to improve human resource condition in the ministry of education. In this research, the assessment of organization plan in different aspects and regarding its main performers’ opinions- the general managers of the provinces and the heads of educational regions- has been done. The statistical sample of the plan includes 31 general managers of the education of the provinces, and 330 heads of educational regions consisting of developed regions, semi-developed regions, and underdeveloped regions.  The descriptive and inferential indices have been applied as the statistical indices for analyzing the research data. The instrument used is the questionnaire. The research indicates that the general managers and heads of educational regions of the provinces are useful for the organization plan. 22.9% of the managers did not have any problem for performing the plan, however, only 20.8 of then found the assessment valuable. Determining managerial policies for allocating human resource and integrated performance of it for all the regions has been one of the most important strengths of the plan regarding the educational regions heads’ opinions.  The general managers of the education department of provinces believed that not paying enough attention to the regional differences are considered as the most important weakness of the plan for human resource organization and management. Then, lack of coordination with provinces for providing the manual of style is considered as the second weakness of the research. They believe that the most important weaknesses of the plan include instability of the plan and weak observation of its performance, not defining the tasks for the human resources, inflexibility of the plan context, reduction of educational quality resulted from high density of classes, low authority of educational regions, and ignoring the needs for human needs.