Research in Medical Education

  Introduction: identifying manpower productivity factors is the most important issue among managers of educational centers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine human resources productivity according to promotion factors, in Guilan University of medical sciences.

  Methods: in this descriptive and analytic of cross sectional study that was performed during three months (August, September and October) in 2009, 321 faculty members and free-university lecturers of Guilan university of medical sciences participated. Data was collected by using man-made questionnaire. Validity and reliability was confirmed by Expert panel experts experiences and alph kronbakh (0.89) respectively. Explanatory factor analysis (main component analysis) with varimax rotation methods were used to find out manpower productivity factors.

  Results: Based on faculty members view points domains with different Variables including cultural organization (18), environment condition (9) , motivational factors (7) , services transpancy(5) Staff empoverment (4), leadership Styles (6) and to tally 71, 20 variance were important effective factors in manpower productivity. In this regard and in terms of free- university lecturers the most important factors were as follows cultural organization, motivational factors, service transparency, environmental condition, Staff empowerment leadership style and organizational protection respectively and 74.56 variance totally.

  Conclusion: the present Study show that cultural organization considered as the most important effective factor on manpower productivity promotion from the view points of faculty members and free-university lecturers of Guilan University of medical Sciences.