Presenting a Model of Factors Influencing the Leadership Competency of Islamic Azad University Managers

The purpose of this study was to present a model of factors affecting the leadership competency of Islamic Azad University managers.

This research is a mixed method research in qualitative and quantitative in descriptive-survey method. Participants in the qualitative section consisted of 21 academic experts selected by purposeful method using key experts and theoretical saturation method. In the quantitative section, all faculty and staff of Islamic Azad University of Fars province numbered 1800. Morgan table was used to determine the sample size. Based on this table, 187 faculty members and staff of Islamic Azad University of Fars were selected. The research tools were used in qualitative, exploratory and semi-structured interviews and in a small part by a researcher-made questionnaire; factors influencing managers' leadership competency were designed based on the themes obtained in the qualitative stage.

Results in qualitative section revealed the factors influencing leadership competence in the form of 21 basic attributes, 4 organizer attributes (ethical, motivational, managerial, structural) and two pervasive factors (individual and organizational) that based on these findings the effective factors model Leadership competency was designed and quantitative results showed that the structural factor in universities had a great impact on the competencies of leaders and managers, and the model obtained had a good fit.

According to the results of the research, four factors affecting leadership competency are identified: ethical, motivational, managerial, structural, which require macro and micro strategies that lead to emergence and emergence of leadership competencies in Azad university managers. To be adopted.