Dental schools are facing substantial financial challenges and a shortage of faculty members. One solution to address these issues has been to hire "shared" faculty members, i.e., faculty members whose primary appointment is at one institution who are hired by another institution to teach a course or part of a course. This is a controversial concept. A survey of academic deans at U.S. and Canad...

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...

a most important phenomenon among organizational resources is creativity along with mobility of staff, while empowerment being the motivator of creativity and mobility. the purpose of this study was an analysis of management and organizational factors necessary for empowerment of iranian agricultural colleges faculty members. research methodology was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical po...

the main purpose of this descriptive – survey study was to investigate the factors affecting the professional skills of faculty members in iranian agricultural colleges. the statistical population of the study consisted of the faculty members of iranian agricultural colleges (n=1837), from whom 380 were determined as sample, applying morgan's sample table. the population size was later inc...

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...