Designing a model of business leadership, knowledge building and examining its impact on psychological empowerment of the personnel of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz

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Nabi  Mostafazad ¹ (Educational Sciences, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran)
javad  keyhan ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran)
Mohammad  Hassani ³ (Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran)
Maryam  Sameri ⁴ (Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran)

Received: 2020-09-30 Accepted : 2021-02-14 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Knowledge Commercialization Leadership, personnel Psychological Empowerment,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to design a leadership model for knowledge commercialization and to investigate its impact on psychological empowerment of employees in the Islamic Azad University of Tabriz. The research design is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). In the qualitative stage The statistical population included all managers and faculty members of Tabriz Azad University 21 experts were selected by purposive sampling method, and after a semi-structured interview with content analysis and coding methods, a knowledge commercialization leadership model was designed. The model includes five dimensions of managerial factors, organizational capacity, research capacity, competitive strategies and business intelligence. In the statistical population survey stage, there were 919 university employees and through random sampling, 180 people were selected as the sample size. To collect information, a Researcher-Made questionnaire on knowledge commercialization leadership and a psychological empowerment questionnaire were used, which is a combination of standard questions by Spritzer, Mishra (1995) and Researcher-Made. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the   professors and experts. Reliability was also determined by Cronbach's alpha test, which in all variables was above / 7. Was obtained. For qualitative analysis, contextual theory has been used in the qualitative part, and factor analysis and structural modeling have been used in the quantitative part. The results showed that knowledge commercialization leadership has five main dimensions and has a positive and significant effect on the psychological empowerment of university personnel(p = .01). Accordingly, the achievement of the mentioned model of Tabriz Azad University, in addition to making it possible to achieve the goals of knowledge commercialization in this university; It also empowers the university personnel.  

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