Masoomeh Qarakhani
Abstract
Masoumeh Qarakhani Date of Receive: 2013/10/9Date of Accept: 2014/2/9AbstractWhile paving the way for access to university education, the higher education institution pursues some social policies with the aim of securing welfare services for interested groups such as students, managers, university office ...
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Masoumeh Qarakhani Date of Receive: 2013/10/9Date of Accept: 2014/2/9AbstractWhile paving the way for access to university education, the higher education institution pursues some social policies with the aim of securing welfare services for interested groups such as students, managers, university office workers and faculty members. The present research deals with the study and analysis of documents (laws, bylaws and decrees) as the legal input of social policies. These are related to securing welfare for faculty members of public universities in Iran during 1981-2011. Using qualitative method and content analysis technique, welfare policies for faculty members in this period have been represented under the two concepts of “occupational well-being policies” and “promotional and job security policies”, and the process and procedure of these policies have been recognized. Apart from some “predictive policies”, which are based on Faculty Member Employment Bylaw and mainly concerned with occupational welfare services and promotion policies, other policies especially welfare policies in the framework of programs of Welfare and Organization and Fund for Faculty Members Support, have a “reactive” characteristic. This means that in spite of the enforcement of some welfare policies, the policymakers and even official executives have no clear and comprehensive understanding of the concept of welfare concerning faculty members in Iran. In the light of such an incoherent perception, some social welfare policies have been neglected by policymaker, and the enforcement of the existing half-done policies, due to political and economic policies and also governments’ approaches to the welfare of faculty members, has been affected by the tastes of policymakers and official executives.
