Relationship between organizational dimensions climate and acceptance of rate of curriculum innovation (Case study of Isfahan University)

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Setareh Mousavi ¹ , Mostafa Sharif ² , saeed Rajaeepor ³

1 - اصفهان بهارستان هاراه اردیبهشت مجتمع مروارید2
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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: organizational climate, Innovation acceptability, Isfahan university, curriculum innovation,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between organizational dimensions climate and acceptance of curriculum innovation in Isfahan University. This study was applied and the research method was a descriptive – correlative (survey). Statistical population was included all 503 faculty members of the University of Isfahan. 126 faculty members were chosen as a statistical sample. The research tools were two questionnaires. One of them was designed by Gole (2008) for organizational dimensions climate (rules, discipline, democracy, social and cultural factors of organizational image, total goal) and the other questionnaire was used for of acceptance of curriculum innovation (innovation  goals, content, learning – teaching, evaluation). In order to analyze data at the level of inferential statistics, multi Regression, Levin and ANOVA tests were used. The findings showed that: 1) There was a positive and significant relation between organizational dimensions climate and acceptance of curriculum innovation. 2) There was a positive and significant relation between organizational dimensions climate and acceptance of curriculum innovation goals, content, learning – teaching and evaluation. 3) There was a significant difference between the mean of organizational dimensions climate in terms of university, college, tenure, academic trips for grading the faculty members of the University of Isfahan and the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (p < 0.05). 4) There was not a significant difference between the mean of organizational dimensions climate in terms of the gender of faculty members of Isfahan University (p < 0.05(