systemized sabbatical leaves seem as an appropriate mechanism for fostering academic collaboration, improving academic capacities and developing professional capacity of faculty members in higher agricultural education system. this research was done with aim to identify and analysis expected outcomes and impacts of sabbatical leaves for professional development of agricultural faculty members. ...

Background: Faculty members are the main sources of universities. Determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. Faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. Therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

human resource development is one of the effective methods for increasing efficiency and optimum use of individual and group abilities and especially faculty members in order to achieve organizational goals. therefor the purpose of this descriptive-survey research was validation (confirmatory factor analysis) of the necessary components for human resource development (faculty members) of colleg...

BACKGROUND Mentoring relationships, for all medical school faculty members, are an important component of lifelong development and education, yet an understanding of mentoring among medical school clinical faculty members is incomplete. This study examined associations between formal mentoring relationships and aspects of faculty members' engagement and satisfaction. It then explored the variab...

Background: The aim of current study was to identify the most suitable strategies for faculty development and improving educational potential of faculty members in medical sciences. Methods: The study was cross-sectional. First, using the literature and with the help of experts, a list of all suitable strategies for faculty development was extracted. Then the questionnaire was created based on ...

This work identifies the factors that measure job satisfaction of faculty members at two selected and major universities in Malaysia, using ten major factors corresponding to job satisfaction using the Herzberg Two-factor Theory to determine how these selected factors are related to job satisfaction of Malaysian faculty members. The conclusions drawn from this study are that the major sources o...

background: the present study was conducted to determine the inhibiting factors of research activities among the faculty members of islamic azad university.   methods: in the present cross-sectional study, conducted between 2009-2013, 300 faculty members of islamic azad university, science and research branch, tehran, were selected following stratified random sampling method. data collection in...

Th e population frame for this study included 1,850 Cornell faculty members. In order to have as broad a representation as possible, we did not exclude: instructors and lecturers, faculty on leave, faculty based in graduate colleges, or faculty based outside of Ithaca. Before the initiation of the formal study, fi fty faculty members were randomly selected to take part in a pilot version of the...

exploring the usage of knowledge management from the viewpoint of urmia university faculty members     dalaimilana [1] *, fereiduni m [2]     received: 26 oct , 2013 accepted: 26 dec , 2013   abstract   background & aims : knowledge management is one of the most important factors for any given organization's success in data competition age . therefore, the present study was done aiming to ...