Background and Objective: Given the importance and status of faculty members in universities, the advancement of the duties and missions of the higher education system and rapid development of the technologies and challenges faced by educational institutions require proper measures for the continuous development and overall improvement of these systems, especially the improvement of the capacities, scientific capabilities, and professional skills of faculty members through knowledge management. The present study aimed to assess the role of the elements of knowledge management in the improvement of the faculty members in distance education universities by designing an appropriate model. Materials and Methods: This applied, qualitative research was conducted on the faculty members of distance education research universities in Iran, including 5,101 faculty members. The participants were selected via stratified random sampling (n=357) and based on Morgan's table. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The validity of the research instrument was confirmed by experts, and its reliability was confirmed using the Cronbach's alpha, which was estimated at 0.89 for knowledge management and 0.91 for knowledge development items. Data analysis was performed in SPSS using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for data normalization. In addition, the path and fitting of the model were examined using structural equations in AMOS software. Results: In this research, knowledge management indicators (creation, sharing, storage, and application of knowledge) affected all the improvement indicators (individual, professional, and organizational), so that the overall effect of knowledge management on improvement was estimated at 69.3 in the model fitting index table. Conclusion: According to the results, knowledge management is a conscious strategy for creating, sharing, storing, and applying knowledge, thereby enhancing the performance of the faculty members in distance education universities and enabling them to become an efficient element of change in universities.
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This study aimed to investigate the barriers to the development of participative management from the perspective of school administrators to identify inhibiting factors in Kermanshah. For this purpose, after the study of contemporary research findings, obstacles to the development of participatory management were divided in five groups of structural factors, human factors, and factors in information systems, and factors related to the nature and the workplace and for each of these components were determined. In order to assess the barriers to the development of participative management from the perspective of school administrators, a researcher-made questionnaire developed by Pournader (2013), Sadeghi Haddad (2012 and Negin Tagi ( 2005) was designed. The questionnaire was with 40 questions using a Likert scale. Its validity was confirmed through content validity and its reliability through Cornbrash's alpha (89/0 = ). After determining the sample size using Morgan table by simple random sampling, questionnaires were distributed to managers. To analyze the data, SPSS and LISREL soft wares were employed. Results indicate that among the identified factors, the most important and influential hinder to the development of participative management from the perspective of administrators was related to human factors.
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