javad moghadasi; kamran Mohammadkhani; amirhossein mohammaddavudi
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Not only identify and classify dimensions and components of Staff development is important but also identify methods. This study aimed to identify methods of staff development in higher education system. This study was descriptive survey. The study population included all staff of Islamic Azad University ...
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Not only identify and classify dimensions and components of Staff development is important but also identify methods. This study aimed to identify methods of staff development in higher education system. This study was descriptive survey. The study population included all staff of Islamic Azad University in Region 8 in 2016(N=3812) .The sample size were 203 individuals base on Cochran formula by using classified random sampling. The data was collected via researcher-made questionnaire. Cranach's alpha coefficient was used to determine reliability (0.96). The data were analyzed using factor analysis. The findings showed that 5 methods influence on staff development such as Inter-university, extra-University, formal, informal and group method which factors can be explained 67.625% of total variance. The most power to explain was related to informal method (18.02%) and the least power to explain was related to formal methods (10.92%). Higher administrators need to use several methods such as informal, group development, Inter-university, extra-University methods influence.
Reza Yarveisi; Fattah Nazem; Khadijeh Abolmaali
Volume 12, Special Issue , June 2018, , Pages 415-435
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to "identify the factors affecting organizational intelligence in Islamic Azad universities using a basic theory and a case study in Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah. The research is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of method and method of implementation, ...
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to "identify the factors affecting organizational intelligence in Islamic Azad universities using a basic theory and a case study in Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah. The research is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of method and method of implementation, it is a type of exploratory-sequential mixed study with a classification approach (combined research methods). The statistical population of this study was in the human sector, professors and academic experts in the field of education at Islamic Azad universities, and in the documents section, articles, books and studies in the field of organizational intelligence. Selection of samples in the human section was carried out in the form of selective sampling, in which 11 participants participated. The necessary data were collected from two sources: (a) the study of texts; (b) interviews with experts. In the text section, qualitative analysis of the text by deductive-inductive method and the method of the analysis of the content were used. In the interview section, the field theory analysis method was used. Analysis of qualitative research data was done using the underlying theory. The findings of the analysis of qualitative data using basic theory, after extracting the main codes and forming the central codes, classified the factors affecting organizational intelligence in 9 Islamic Azad universities. These factors include: "management, processing and sharing of information", "attention to organizational communication", "transforming an organization into a learning organization", "employing effective systems of encouragement and punishment", "individual characteristics of employees and professors of the organization", " Employing powerful executives and leaders "," focusing on proper planning, "" focusing on the use of modern technologies, "and" organizational support ". Based on the results, it is suggested that in Islamic Azad universities, organizational infrastructure in order to support and support the use of specialist forces and knowledge management, to create and apply specialist forces at high levels of management, the conditions for using knowledge management In order to integrate the intellectual potential of the organizational forces.
