The Obstacles of Faculty Member Development in Islamic Azad University

Subject Areas :

Mostafa Edjtehadi ¹ , Nadergholi Ghorchian ² , Parivash Jaafari ³ , Hamid Shafizadeh ⁴

1 - عضو هیات علمی
2 - عضو هیات علمی
3 - عضو هیات علمی
4 - دانشجوی دکترا

Received: 2012-06-27 Accepted : 2012-08-08 Published : 2012-09-21

Keywords: Keywords:Higher education, human resource, development programs, faculty and obstacles of development,

Abstract :

Abstract Faculty members are the most important capital in universities and higher education institutes, and investment in development programs and upgrading them is so important. The goal of the study is to study obstacles of the faculty members' development in Islamic Azad University. It is a descriptive survey research and the instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The population consisted of all full time faculty members of IAU in regions 8 &12. Using stratified random sampling method, 360 of them were selected. The content validity of the research instrument was confirmed by a group of experts in the field. Cronbach alpha is used for determining the reliability of the questionnaire )α=0.81). Data analysis was conducted by means of SPSS software program (version 11.5). The results show that out of 13 obstacles of faculty member improvement, 8 obstacles were higher than middle average. Friedman test results show that the most important obstacles consist of ignoring faculty members' needs and preferences, lake of enough support from university managers, non-arbitrariness of programs and lake of necessary motivations and encouragement. Investigating demographic variables shows that there are no meaningful relation between variables (gender, faculty members work experience, scientific level and the course) and obstacles of faculty member improvement. Finally, a number of suggestions were presented in order to improve efficiency of faculty member's improving programs.

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