The Impact of Innovation Management on Educational Performance in Mazandaran Universities of Medical Sciences

Innovation is an important and vital factor for organizations to create value. The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of innovation management on educational performance in Mazandaran Universities of Medical Sciences. This applied study was performed with a combined qualitative and quantitative approach. In the quantitative part, the descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical population of the qualitative section consisted of 10 professors of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, selected by purposive sampling, and in the quantitative section, 256 people using random sampling method were selected according to Cochran's formula from among 765 faculty members of universities of sciences. To collect data, two researcher-made questionnaires of innovation management with 66 items and Zandi Educational Performance Questionnaire (2013) with 25 items were used. The validity and reliability of the instruments were confirmed and their Cronbach's alpha was calculated above 0.7. SPSS 21 and PLS 3.2 software were used for data analysis. The results showed that the highest average among the dimensions of innovation management was related to the dimension of organizational culture with 3.92, and the lowest value was related to the dimension of organizational incentives with the value of 3.53 and the dimension of organizational culture with R2 value of 0.835 was at the highest level. Also, based on the path coefficients factor of 0.368, it can be concluded that the impact of innovation management on educational performance in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences was positive and significant.