Azam Rahimzadeh Kalaleh; Saeed Ghiasi Nodooshan; Hamid Rahimian; Ali Khorsandi Taskouh; Fazlollah Ahmadi
Volume 15, Issue 54 , October 2021, , Pages 5-18
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Medical universities as suppliers of health system human resources need effective leaders to promote medical education status in the country. The present study is an attempt to review the literature on academic leadership and to identify research gaps related to this issue in medical universities. This ...
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Medical universities as suppliers of health system human resources need effective leaders to promote medical education status in the country. The present study is an attempt to review the literature on academic leadership and to identify research gaps related to this issue in medical universities. This systematized review was conducted by searching databases of ERIC, Pubmed, SID, Scopus, Web of Science, Emerald Proquest, and Google Scholar by appropriate keywords selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) documents related to academic leadership that were published between 2009- 2020. The retrieved articles were reviewed (n=505), and after deletion of duplicates, and according to the research inclusion and exclusion criteria 20 articles were reviewed. The quality of selected documents was appraised by MERSQI. Reviewing the selected studies indicated that the leadership studies are mostly conducted in Humanities universities. The studies on academic leadership in medical universities are mostly dealt with the relationship of characteristics of academic leaders and leadership styles. In medical universities, most of the managers who are physicians has not attended management and leadership programs and believe that they do not need to attend these programs. According to the findings of this study, only one research studied challenges and requirements of effective academic leadership in the country. Therefore, conducting qualitative studies on leadership in universities of medical sciences that provide an opportunity for deep study of experiences, beliefs and attitudes of academic leaders deem necessary.
Hasan Fazeli; Abbas Abbaspour; Hamid Rahimian; Ali Delavar
Volume 15, Issue 53 , June 2021, , Pages 23-41
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The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of administrators decision making in educational organization. This research method was a mixed exploratory research. The statistical population in the qualitative section included all school principals in Tehran and expert principals ...
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The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of administrators decision making in educational organization. This research method was a mixed exploratory research. The statistical population in the qualitative section included all school principals in Tehran and expert principals of educational system and the sampling method was purposeful and theoretical. In quantitative part, the statistical population was all school principals in Tehran, which according to Cochran's formula, the number of sample members was 249. Data collection tool in the qualitative part of the interview was semi-structured and retesting and reliability between the two coders were used to check the validity and reliability of the interviews and coding, and they are approved as 0.75 and 0.77 respectively. The collection tool in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity was checked and confirmed by content validity method and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the instrument was evaluated and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha method, and it was approved as 0.625. Grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data in the qualitative part. One-sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the quantitative part. The findings showed: 1- Dimensions of decision making were classified into eight categories: knowledge, experience and expertise, ethical, psychological, social, human, technical and economic. 2- There was a significant correlation between the dimensions and components. 3- Knowledge dimension and psychological dimension had the highest and lowest mean, respectively.
abbas abbaspour; mohsen shakerihoseinabad; hamid rahimian; maghsood farasatkhah
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The purpose of this study was to investigate experts' perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of public universities accountability in Tehran city. This study used an exploratory mixed methods approach involving 309 faculty members, experts and PhD students in 2015. The main purpose of the ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate experts' perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of public universities accountability in Tehran city. This study used an exploratory mixed methods approach involving 309 faculty members, experts and PhD students in 2015. The main purpose of the qualitative phase was to develop a background for a questionnaire and provisional model to be used in the quantitative phase. Structural equation modeling analysis during the quantitative phase provided a model that shows the relationships of different factors regarding effective accountability. The result of study provided exploratory model to describe the relationship between casual conditions of balanced accountability to the needs of the stakeholders, accountability strategies, context and environmental aspect of Public universities, and outcomes of it.
