Design and Validation of the Competency Model of Kabul Public Universities’ Presidents

This research is aimed to design and validate a competency model for the Kabul public universities' presidents using the content analysis of the exploratory mixed method. In the qualitative section of this research, 10 people of who were experts in the field of competence selected through targeted sampling and semi-structured interviews were done. Then, in two stages of analyzing qualitative data using open and axial coding, competencies were classified into three main categories of individual characteristics, theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Then, based on the findings of the qualitative stage analysis, a research questionnaire was designed and implemented in the statistical sample of 304 faculty members of Kabul public universities who were selected by stratified random sampling method using Morgan table. Therefore, the quantitative data were collected. In the quantitative phase, the path analysis was used to validate the competencies of university presidents. The results indicate that the model has a suitable fitting and acceptable validity. Also, standardized coefficients are meaningful on each of the main themes.Besides, the two main themes, including individual characteristics and theoretical knowledge, have the power to predict the ability of practical skills at a meaningful level. Therefore, the proposed model in the qualitative section was confirmed after the elimination of two factors which were the problem-solving skills in the practical skills theme and charm in the individual characteristics theme.