Effective Academic Leadership in Clinical Departments of Medical Universities: A Grounded Theory
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Abstract
Universities of Medical Sciences as the organizations that provide human resources for the health systems need effective leaders who can promote the medical status of the countries. In this regard, the present qualitative grounded theory study is an attempt to design an effective leadership model for departments of clinical education. The study identified causal conditions, background, confounding variables, consequences, and the central theme of “belief in effective leadership” to determine formation process of effective leadership. Based on the study findings, effective leadership model was designed for clinical education departments of medical universities. The distinguishing aspect of this model compared to the previously presented models of academic leadership is creation of the belief of effective leadership in medical sciences universities. This distinguishing factor emphasizes the academic leader’s recognition of their immediate environment, university, department and their selves.
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2. Dinh NBK, Caliskan A, Zhu C. Academic leadership: Perceptions of academic leaders and staff in diverse contexts. Educ Manag Admin Leadersh 2021;49:996-1016.
3. Grajfoner D, Rojon C, Eshraghian F. Academic leaders: In-role perceptions and developmental approaches. Educ Manag Admin Leadersh 2022;52.
4. Lotfi F, Mokhtarpour S, Momenirad A, Amini M, Kojuri J. Relevance between style leadership and organizational commitment of faculty members. Hormozgan Med J 2012;16.
5. Taheri M, Asadi Louyeh A, Khoshrang H. Relationship between leadership styles of heads of education departments and faculties’ job satisfaction. J Holistic Nurs Midwifery 2014;24:56-63.
6. Amin Mozaffari F, Yousefi Aghdam R. Factors affecting the role of department chairs in university of Tabriz: Department Chairs Perspectives. Res Plan High Educ 2014;20:143-65.
7. Javanak Liavali M, Abili K, Porkarimi J, Soltani Arabshahi SK. Providing a pattern of professional development of clinical department chairs: A case of state universities of medical sciences in tehran. Educ Strategy Med Sci 2017;10:203-18.
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9. Asefzadeh S, Mohebbifar R, Shirali H. Leadership styles and the performance of the managers at Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. J Inflamm Dis 2005;9:56-62.
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11. Ahanchian Mohammad Reza BA. Preparation and validation of the performance evaluation questionnaire of university educational group managers: application of mixed method in practice. Teach Learn Res (behavioral science) 2013;20:147-62.
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21. Azizi M. Leaders of higher education in Afghanistan: Leadership beliefs, and challenges for the 21 st century: Pepperdine University; Proquest Dissertation Publishing, 2008.
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31. Abdulahi Davoud MN. Investigating the factors affecting the optimal implementation of the evaluation of the performance of educational groups in universities. Conference of modern researches of Iran and the world in management, economy, accounting and humanities. Shushtar University of Applied Sciences; 2016.
32. Simpson S. The styles, models & philosophy of leadership. Denmark: Ventus Publishing Aps; 2012.
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Rahimzadeh A, Ghiasi Nodooshan S, Rahimian H, Khorsandi Taskoh A, Ahmadi F. Effective Academic Leadership in Clinical Departments of Medical Universities: A Grounded Theory. Acta Med Iran. 2024;62(2):65-73.
