Designing and Validating the Model of the Characteristics of Boundary Spanner Faculty Members

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Saeid Norollahee 1
Siroos Ghanbari 2
1 Department: Educational Science, Bu -Ali Sina University, Hamedan
2 Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
10.61838/KMAN.IRPHE.30.3.1
Abstract
The aim of the research was to design and validate the model of the characteristics of Boundary Spanner faculty members in state universities. The research was conducted using the sequential-exploratory combined method. In the qualitative part, it was considered to identify the characteristics of Boundary Spanner faculty members in the public universities of Tehran. For this purpose, 15 faculty members of Tehran's public universities were selected and interviewed in a targeted manner and based on their Boundary Spanning experience. The interviews were analyzed using open, central and selective coding. By coding the interviews, 48 open codes and 9 central codes were identified and placed in three classes, and the names of the personal characteristics of the academic boundary spanner, the job characteristics of the academic boundary spanner and the organizational characteristics of the academic boundary spanner were chosen for these classes. In the quantitative part, the research sought to validate the model obtained from the qualitative part by designing a questionnaire and a quan titative survey. The statistical population of the research in this department was 2189 faculty members of technical-engineering faculties of Tehran state universities, and the sample size was determined using Cochran's formula to the number of 327 people and sampling was done by stratified-proportional random method. Data collection was done using a researcher-made 19-question questionnaire (resulting from the analysis of interviews in the qualitative section). The data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis methods. The findings showed; The factor loading of the dimension of personal characteristics of the academic boundary spanner is equal to 0.89, the factor loading of the dimension of the job characteristics of the academic boundary spanner is equal to 0.73, the factor loading of the dimension of the organizational characteristics of the academic boundary spanner is equal to 0.85, which according to the t value obtained at the level of 0.1 0 is significant. The fit indices of CFI=0.98, GFI=0.92, AGFI=90 and RMSEA=0.05 also showed that the measurement tool has good validity.

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  • Receive Date 08 July 2023
  • Revise Date 10 January 2024
  • Accept Date 02 July 2024
  • Publish Date 22 September 2024