Abstract Universities face great challenges in scientific, technological, economic, and international fields. Considering these challenges helps to provide developmental capacities. Therefore, in this study, the risks in Iran's higher education industry have been identified and prioritized. To this aim, a list of related risks and risk groups in higher education was first identified by a deep literature review. Then the identified lists were completed and validated through interviews with experts (Delphi technique), after obtaining the convergence of experts, Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation (FSE) based on FMEA was employed to prioritize risk factors and risk groups according to their criticality score which ultimately leads to the overall risk score. According to the results, the most critical risk in the higher education industry is "lack of meritocracy" the most vital risk group is "lack of good communication with the industry" and the critical degree of the overall risk is about 3.75, which indicates the necessity of the risks management in higher education and should be followed up by implementing preventive and control measures.

Abstract The main objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the managers’ entrepreneurship and the quality of the staff’s working life and determining math pattern for the employee's quality of work life based on the managers' entrepreneurship. The research population includes all managers of Islamic Azad University employed in different branches of the university. Using the stratified and cluster random sampling, 456 mangers, along with three employees under the supervision of each manager (total 1368 staffs) were chosen from different branches of Islamic Azad University. The assessment tools were the researcher-made questionnaires of entrepreneurship and the quality of work life. The questionnaire of entrepreneurship was administered to the managers, and the questionnaire of the quality of work life was administered to three staffs under the supervision of each manager. The results of the analysis of the multi-variation regression showed that there is a relationship between the managers’ entrepreneurship and the quality of the staff’s working life (p £ 0.05 & β= 0.10), and the math pattern for the quality of the staff’s working life based on the  managers’ entrepreneurship in the branches of Islamic Azad University is as follows: The quality of the staff’s working life = 0.10 × the managers’ entrepreneurship + 135.621.