Providing Exclusive Competency Model for University Faculty Members

Abstract

The present research was accomplished to present a model for the exclusive competency among the university faculty members. The research is of applied nature using the descriptive-survey method. To determine the nature of the exclusive competency among the university faculty members, the research used inductive content analysis by using 390 coded samples. Coding and stratifying of the samples were carried out in three phases, 69 main criteria having 12 components and 3 dimensions were defined and based on three-phased Delphi technique, 34 informed scientific and executive professors were selected. The criteria were evaluated by these samples and finally, 61 criteria, 6 elements and 2 dimensions with either slight or complete changes were determined. A questionnaire was extracted from the results and distributed among the university faculty members as well as managers and experts in the university education and a total of 108 analyzable questionnaires were obtained. The final research model was quantitatively assessed through confirmatory factor analysis and redundancy tests. The goodness-of-fit criterion for the final model was 0.683, which is regarded as a good value. In the final model, group, organizational and individual dimensions had factor loadings ​​of 0.942, 0.880 and 0.820, respectively, and all three coefficients were statistically significant. However, the group dimension was more important than the other two dimensions and the organizational dimension was the second most important.