A Study of Azad Islamic Universities Managers'(8 th District Branches) Performance and AttitudeToward the Dimensions and Components of Change Management and Presenting anAppropriate Conceptual Frame Work

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Parivash Jafari ¹ , Fariba Hanifi ²

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2007-09-23

Keywords: Performance, Attitude, conceptual framework, Keywords: Change, Change Management,

Abstract :

  Abstract   The purpose of this study was to examine administrators' performance & attitude at Azad Islamic university branches of 8 th district according to dimensions & 138 components of change management & to develop an appropriate conceptual framework: to achieve the above goals, first the research literature was reviewed deeply and 108 components of change 5 management in higher education were extracted, which reduced to components by expert judgment. The extracted components categorized in 5 dimensions: competencies of change leader traits, the culture of change, policies and strategies of change, change environment, change content. Then a 108 items questionnaire was developed. The questionnaire was administered among a randomly selected sample consisted of 267 presidents, vice-presidents, deans, associate deans & head departments after establishing its validity (by expert judgment) and its reliability (by calculation of Cronbach's Alpha coefficient=0.98 ). The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics methods as well as inferential tests such as ANOVA, Chi square, factor analysis, and path analysis. The finding showed that there was no significant difference between three groups of administrator's performance. The same result was found about their attitudes. To present the conceptual framework, the extracted factors were analyzed by factors Analysis through SPSS and were named by Expert Judgment (ten specialists). Then the final conceptual framework was drawn by path Analysis through LISEREL & GFI test confirmed the conceptual framework factors and their interaction and correlation by calculation GFI (GFI=0.97 )