Mohammad Naqi Akbari; Hamid Rahimian; Abbas abbaspour; saeed Ghiasi Nadooshan
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This study has been done to design and validate the performance evaluation tool of the presidents of universities in Afghanistan. To perform this study, the mixed method with explorative plan- tool development model- is used. The statistical population of the study in the qualitative part, included the ...
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This study has been done to design and validate the performance evaluation tool of the presidents of universities in Afghanistan. To perform this study, the mixed method with explorative plan- tool development model- is used. The statistical population of the study in the qualitative part, included the senior managers of of Kabul public universities and authorities of higher education of Afghanistan, is made of 42 people; A sample of 10 people was selected through a targeted sampling method. Also, in the quantitative part, the statistical population is made of 1457 people including the professors of Kabul public universities in which 304 people were selected random stratified sampling. In order to collect data, semi-structured interview was used in the qualitative part and researcher-made questionnaire was used in a quantitative part. For analyzing the data, the thematic analysis was used in the qualitative part and confirmatory factor analysis method with AMOS software was used in a quantitative part. The results of analysis in the qualitative and quantitative sections showed that the developed instrument for evaluating the performance of the universitiy presidents in Afghanistan consists of 16 components with 56 indicators. in addition, goodness of fit indices such as, (CMIN/DF) equal to 1.57, (RMSEA) equal to 0.048, (RMR) equal to 0.08, (CFI) equal to 0.94, (IFI) equal to 0.92, shows that the designed tools tool in the qualitative section of has a very favorable fitness.The tools designed in this study will provide a tool for evaluating the performance and determining the status of university management in Afghanistan, which can be used to assess and even identify the needs of university presidents.
elham etehadi; hamid rahimian; esmat momeni; bahram salehsedghpoor
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This study aimed to developed a questionnaire of knowledge management and check the reliability and validity of that, among faculty member of public universities in Tehran.The research method was descriptive and survey type. First, by studying the literature of the research, we extracted the components ...
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This study aimed to developed a questionnaire of knowledge management and check the reliability and validity of that, among faculty member of public universities in Tehran.The research method was descriptive and survey type. First, by studying the literature of the research, we extracted the components and indicators of knowledge management and a questionnaire was prepared. Then 300 questionnaire was administered to all faculty member of the psychology and educational sciences at six public universities in Tehran consisted of : Allameh tabatabai, shahid beheshti, kharazmi, tarbiat modarres and al-zahra in 2016- 2017. The results showed that knowledge management questionnaire has good face and content validity. Also exploratory factor analysis via principal component were used in order to examine the construct validity. Finally eight factors were identified: individual tacit knowledge, externalization, individual explicit knowledge, combination, explicit organizational knowledge, internalization, organizational tacit knowledge and socialization. The cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was found to be 0.80 for the entire questionnaire. The reliability and validity coefficient were generally qualified for being used in organizational research related to knowledge management.
