Phenomenography of organizational stars in Amirkabir University of Technology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mahdi Alizadeh 1
Behroz Dori 2
Hadi Firozgah 3
1 Associate Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Organizational Resource Management, Amin University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 MSC. Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management, Danesh Albourz University, Qazvin, Iran
10.61838/KMAN.IRPHE.30.2.5
Abstract
Star employees are people with the ability to create high credibility, are irreplaceable and enhance organizational value. As the key assets of the organization, stars play a central role in gaining competitive advantage. They are extraordinary human resources whose performance is visible inside and outside the organization and have high social capital. Considering the diversity and changeability of the concept of organizational star, this research seeks to understand the interpretation and meanings of this phenomenon in Amirkabir university of technology through the phenomenography strategy. In this research, the philosophy of interpretive research, the inductive research approach, the phenomenography research strategy, and the data collection method are semi-structured interviews. For this purpose, maximum diversity sampling was done from the research community that included the professors of AmirKabir University of Technology, and in this way, 20 professors from different faculties, scientific groups, scientific ranks, genders and specialties, were interviewed. Research data analysis was done by Dahlgren and Fallsberg method. The results of the research show that there are seven ways to experience the stardom of a professor in the university, which include: being a brand, being a researcher, being an industrialist, being a technologist, being scientific, being a coach and having grit. In addition, the descriptive classes are placed in four levels of personal capacity, educational, research and boundary-breaking authority, professional and technological authority and scientific index, which is a sign of their structural and hierarchical difference in addition to the difference in their meanings.

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  • Receive Date 15 September 2023
  • Revise Date 28 January 2024
  • Accept Date 24 January 2024
  • Publish Date 21 June 2024