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The fundamental principle of the success and sustainability of social systems in the path of progress is principle of meritocracy. In addition, societies increasing evolution and governments' efforts to increase the quality and efficiency of public sector services have increasingly focused their attention to importance of nurturing and hiring qualified leaders. Besides, if we look at the importance of science and technology in the new world -which is the most fundamental basis for the advancement of countries- the importance of meritocracy in its leaders and institutions will be more cleared. Therefore, this study aimed to design a competency model for the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology.

Thematic analysis is a method for identifying and analyzing patterns in qualitative data, by which qualitative data is divided, classified, summarized and reconstructed. Thematic analysis is essentially a descriptive strategy that facilitates the search for patterns within qualitative data sets.

Through interview with 42 experts, 794 primary themes were obtained which were analyzed by thematic analysis into 3 global themes, 13 organizing themes and 44 basic themes.

The first global theme is individual competency, which is divided into four organizing themes of intrinsic, value, attitude-behavioral and occupational. The second global theme is knowledge competency, which is divided into five organizing themes of knowledge of job field, experience, scientific image, knowledge of Islamic-humanities and management knowledge; and third global theme is the skill competency that comprises four organizing themes of management, leadership, political and interactive.

In recent decades, although public administration has concentrated on the complex concept of performance and its evaluation, it has simultaneously neglected ministers and their departments, or, if done, it is still at an initial stage. The importance of performance evaluation is not concealed to anyone, and theoretically, when we move up in the organizational hierarchy its importance grows till we reach the ministers at the top of government agencies and at the borderline of politics and administration. In addition, science in today's world has not only become a tool for states' power and domination, but it determines the development of countries. Hence, the great role of science and technology organizations and their leaders in countries’ development. Considering the lack of a performance evaluation model for top administrators, this study has addressed the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology and interviewed 42 experts following a combination of quota, targeted and theoretical sampling methods. This resulted in 37 organizing themes and 9 general themes through thematic analysis as follows: higher education development, beneficial science production, higher education preparation, managerial achievements, policy-making achievements, political achievements, promotion of science, university and scientists, Islamization of universities, scientific diplomacy and budget management.

Role is a behavior that is expected from people according to their position. Importance of ministers' roles isn't concealed to anyone. Ministers -at the top of politics and management- are managers of large organizations called ministries whose smallest decisions can have great effects; Therefore, lack of their role model, not only prevents them from optimal performance and puts them in a lot of ambiguities and conflicts, but also slows the progress of organizations; Therefore, this study addressed ministers and concentrated on designing a role model for them. Then, since review and concluding past studies findings is an important step in drawing up a comprehensive picture of them, the study concentrated on its meta-synthesis; So, in first step, gained 131 references about the subject, through a deep search in literature, which in a three-stage refinement reduced to 50 related references; which after refining, analyzing and summarizing their themes, resulted in 27 concepts and 7 categories as follows: public relations role, policy role, political role, executive role, parliamentary role, party and constituency representational role and international role. The findings were then validated by Delphi method; which finally party and constituency representational role and its concepts were deleted. The validation shows the last role and its concepts are not applicatory in Iran.

In performance evaluation, inattention to effective but out-of-access environmental factors causes results bias. These factors are more important in performance evaluation of top administrators who operate in a broader, more dynamic environment. Therefore, this study addressed ministers as case-study and concentrated on understanding effective environmental conditions on ministerial performance evaluation; and since literature findings analysis is an important step to draw up a comprehensive picture of it, the researcher decided to analyze them through meta-synthesis

Meta-synthesis is a qualitative method and a part of meta-study method that analyzes results of literature -those have relevant subjects- and delivers a deep and insight into them.

Seven environmental factors affecting ministerial performance evaluation are political conditions, management team, legal/administrative conditions, public image, policy conditions, international conditions and economic conditions.

Regarding review of global foundations in this study, it is important to consider the specific characteristics of the target population in order to use its results in native contexts. In addition, prioritizing and weighting these conditions helps to make them better utilized.

Considering the effective environmental conditions and the maximum effort to neutralize their effects increases the accuracy of the performance evaluation.

Environmental conditions are external factors that make performance and its' evaluation fluctuate. Inattention to these conditions in the ministerial performance evaluation leads to bias; and accurate performance evaluation depends on neutralizing these conditions. This article is the first to compile these conditions in ministerial performance evaluation.