www.sciencejournal.in Volume- 4 Issue- 2 (2015) ISSN: 2319–4731 (p); 2319–5037 (e) © 2015 DAMA International. All rights reserved. 551 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRODUCTIVITY AND HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT (HSE) INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN UNIVERSITIES AND EDUCATIONAL CENTERS; CASE STUDY; THE ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY, PARAND BRANCH Dr Fatemeh Razavian 1 , Dr Mehrnoosh Jafari 2 *, Dr Behnoush Khoshmandzade 1 1 Department of Environmental Engineering, Parand Branch, Islamic Azad University Parand, Iran 2 Department of Social Sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran *Corresponding Author ABSTRACT The aim of conducting this research is to examine the relationship between manpower productivity and Health, Safety and environment (HSE) in Islamic Azad University, Parand branch. The research is an applied research regarding its objective and it is a descriptive- correlation one regarding the manner of execution. The under- study population included all employees and the faculty members of Parand branch of the Islamic Azad University which was a total of 340 individuals. The sample which was made up of 148 individuals was selected through stratified random sampling. Two researcher-made questionnaires have been used in order to evaluate the productivity of the employers and Health, Safety and environment (HSE), the questionnaires were proven reliable through the aid of Cronbach alpha test after their validity was approved of. The collected data were analyzed through Pearson and regression correlation statistical tests and a t test. The findings of the study indicated that the productivity of the manpower of Parand branch of the Islamic Azad University is not desirable. There is a positive and significant relationship between Health, Safety and environment (HSE) and productivity. Moreover there is a separately positive and significant relationship between each of the indexes of Health, Safety and environment (HSE) and productivity. Taking the obtained results from the research into account, the organizations’ managers and especially the managers of universities must pay special and double attention to environmental conditions, Health factors and the Safety conditions of universities so that they will be able to increase productivity and efficiency through it this will lead to the promotion of the quality of the services presented in the university. KEYWORDS: Employees, Environment, Health, Productivity, Safety, University. INTRODUCTION One of the major particulars of today’s world market is the instability of demands, globalization, increased competition, and special productions and the key factor behind many of organizations constantly being successful at surviving within this active and competitive atmosphere, is productivity increase. While the term “productivity” has simply been defined as the ratio of output to input, the basis of productivity depends on other crucial factors such as technology, the atmosphere in which the organizations work in, and governmental politics and it is also equally dependent on other factors such as production processes, management and manpower(Schuh et al. (2014). It is worth mentioning that productivity has always been a basic and essential subject in economy and management sciences. Productivity growth is traditionally related to technology and innovation development in microeconomics. However productivity concentrates on incentive systems and organizing work processes, and payment on the basis of performance in the organizational levels these are considered the instruments promoting productivity (Hakanen et al. (2014). Very simply put, labor productivity, can be defined as the number of working hours divided by the units of the work done. Even though labor productivity is actually a complex phenomenon which is largely dependent on different factors such as work conditions, the competency of the employees, raw materials being available, motivation, and supervision. Management affects labor productivity as well. Gunsan for instance has introduced inefficient management as one of the major reasons of low productivity. Manpower productivity is one of the key factors included in the organizations’ capability to achieve their goals (Enshassi et al. (2007). Constant changes such as increase in price of rare and energy resources, environmental changes and shifts, the aging of manpower, and resources shortage which increases by day make the issue of productivity more important each day. Productivity which is usually simply defined as the ratio of output to input is a fundamental concept in efficient and effective use of resources. Making profit and economic growth of productivity are one of the basic factors in organizations’ improvement(kapyla et al. (2007). Manpower resources are considered the main factor in sustainable development in modern management. Different approaches have been presented in order to achieve sustainable development in the modern and industrial world however despite the existence