*Member of Faculty, Department of Management, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University
**Student of Superior Expertise of Department of Management, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University
In the market based economy, banking system has a heavy responsibility and considered as one of the most important part of the country. Providing financial capital for economic sections, banks could create suitable condition for investment and improve employment and production. Even banks could create new occupational opportunities and better distribution of income in society levels by providing credits. In addition, banks by keeping cash and facilitating its transfer are retainers of personal and government properties and internal and external exchanges. Also banks have an important role in economic stability as the agents of executing monetary policies. Threats and pressures caused by globalization and increasing growth of non-bank financial and credit institutes in the recent years have forced the banks to improve their performance in internal and external markets by establishing research centers and research activities in the field of their status in comparison with other banks for survival and competition. In this direction, a reasonable and affective solution could determine the banks status regarding general performance, and doing related activities of performance evaluation and examining their position in the market, in order to be able to recognizing strength and weak points in addition to improve their position in the market. By far the researchers have informed performance evaluation and subsequently ranking branches traditionally and using financial ratios and financial indices so that challenged the performance testing so using performance evaluation system which based on financial indices could cause some problems for the organization.
DEA, Agribank, Manager Performance
