Multilevel Analysis of Factors Affecting the Professional Development of Faculty Members

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was a multilevel analysis of the factors affecting the professional development of faculty members.s Materials and Methods: The current research is an applied one in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of survey type. Its population consists of 650 faculty members of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in 1398 and the study sample was selected by proportional assignment method consisting of 289 people. The instruments used in this study consist of three researcher-made questionnaires whose validity has been evaluated by structural validity and their reliability has been evaluated by Cronbach's alpha method and composite reliability. For analyzing the collected data descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, skewness, and elongation) and inferential statistics (multilevel analysis) were used.s Discussion and Conclusions: The results of data analysis and the implementation of statistical tests of multilevel analysis by using HLM software to determine the impact of organizational, managerial, process, individual, and social factors that have been extracted by using theoretical foundations and framework show that per unit change in organizational factors of the second level (faculty), professional development of faculty members change 0.52 units, managerial factors change 0.01 units, process factors change 0.06 units, individual factors change 0.22 units and social factors change 0.08 units. Also, with per unit of change in management factors, the professional development of faculty members changes 0.06 units; with each change in the process factors of professional development of faculty members, it changes 0.15; with per unit of change in individual factors of professional development of faculty members, it changes 0.13 units and finally with per unit of change in social factors of professional development of faculty members, it changes 0.15 units. According to the obtained results, it seems that all the mentioned factors have a significant impact on the professional development of the faculty members; the organizational factors have the most, and managerial factors have the least impact on the professional development of the faculty members.s