چکیده:
Context: This research has been conducted with the aim of comparative comparisons of Iran's underlying and cultural indicators as indicators of higher education quality with Japan. The method is library for reviewing documents. For comparison with one of the Asian countries, is selected Japan for having equal population and cultural indicators with Iran. In this study, assuming the effectiveness of them were examined underlying indexes and cultural indexes of Hofstede. The results showed that in terms of cultural, Iran and Japan are almost equal but terms of underlying, Iran has very low rank especially in the economic field (giving credit to the private sector) and the development of human resources. According to human resource development in the country's low ranking university system and higher education recommended to the authorities to pay special attention to the indices of quality.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Given the low rank of human resource development in Iran, it is suggested to the officials of the university and higher education system to pay special attention to this quality index.
Higher education institutions face a dual issue: on one hand, they need to adapt themselves to the requirements of the evolving external environment, and on the other hand, creative adaptation to external changes requires a change in the way internal issues are perceived (such as students, faculty, staff, processes, structures, organizational culture, methods, patterns, leadership styles, teaching methods, level of research and interactions, quantity and quality of specialized services, etc.
The reason for paying attention to contextual and cultural indices in this research is that many studies 2 in other countries, such as the studies of Voss, Gruber, and Szmigin 1 (2007), Gardiner (2014), and Khurshid 3 (2014), have shown that the more desirable the status of the contextual and cultural indices of higher education in a country is, the higher the quality of higher education in that country will be above the average level.
The results of the tables related to the contextual and cultural indices in the country show that the more the indices of non-governmental economic development, human development, democracy, and secularization develop as signs of the maturity of Iranian society, and the more higher education credits have desirable diversity as a support for university autonomy; the higher education quality assurance system will be able to establish itself with more self-referentiality, flexibility, and effectiveness (Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, .
In explaining this finding, it can be said that among the indices compared between Iran and Japan, the human resource development index in higher education in our country is controversial.
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