Investigation of the employees’ payment system in an educational institution - A case study

Abstract: Nowadays, wage and salary system form the most important issues in any society, and its phenomenon takes dimensions with an expansion of a public organization and NGOs. Organizations provide employees satisfaction through different pay programs, which force them to work down more with higher quality. In this paper, we consider a survey of the payment system in an Iranian university as a case study. The population of this study consists of the existing documents, observations, working managers, supervisors and experts. This study is carried out from the desired community based on the data collected for a period of 18 months and the sample size is about 97 people. We use descriptive statistics to analyze the descriptive data. We also use the one-sample Kolmogorove-Smirnov test, t-test and Friedman test for the questions. The results of the existing payment system show that there is no any good condition and the employee & apos; s attitude towards this system are negative based on the collected data. Finally, some suggestions are recommended to improve the existing situation.

How to cite this paper

 Tabari, M., Gholipour-Kanani, Y & Seifi-Divkolaii, M. (2012). Investigation of the employees’ payment system in an educational institution - A case study.Management Science Letters , 2(3), 1031-1040.

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