نگرش و عملكرد مديران دانشگاههاي آزاد اسلامي منطقه 8 بر مبناي ابعاد و مؤلفه هاي مديريت تغيير و ارائه چارچوب ادراكي مناسب

A Study of Azad Islamic Universities Managers1 (8 th District Branches) Performance and Attitude Toward the Dimensions and Components of Change Management and Presenting an Appropriate Conceptual Frame Work

The purpose of this study was to examine administratorsʹ performance & attitude at Azad Islamic university branches of 8 th district according to dimensions & components of change management & to develop an appropriate conceptual framework: to achieve the above goals, first the research literature was reviewed deeply and 138 components of change management in higher education were extracted, which reduced to 108 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 Cronbachʹs Alpha coefficient=98.0). 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 administratorʹs 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) j