Determining the strategic position of an educational institution in the organizational life cycle with fuzzy approach (Case Study: Social Sciences Faculty of Khalij Fars University)

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1 Associate Professor of Industrial Management Department, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD student of Industrial Management, Department of Industrial Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Organizations have life stages like living organisms. One day they are born, raised and die another day. This article seeks to examine the situation of a staff life cycle in Social Sciences faculty of Khalij Fars university. The main purpose of this research is understanding the life cycle of the faculty members, then can be predict the future path of staff life cycle. In this regard, by search in the literature, 23 organic growth model were identified. By studying these models, proposed a related model for a didactic, educational and collegiate center. After by developing this model, the next step is to expanded a four-stage approach to gathering and analyzing the data. At the end of this algorithm introduced two indicators including fuzzy index and mathematics index. Based on these index the life cycle of faculty members in Social Sciences faculty of Khalij Fars university is at the end of the first stage, i.e. childhood in the period 1382 to 1393.

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Modern Research in Decision Making
Volume 1, Issue 2
July 2016
Pages 117-138

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