The Impact of Knowledge-Based Leadership on Scientific Authority in The Macro Medical Sciences Universities of Region 1 in Order to Present A Model

The overall purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of knowledge-based leadership on scientific authority in the Macro Medical Sciences Universities of region 1 in order to present a model. Methods and Materials: The study, conducted in 2020, was to apply an exploratory design with a mixed (qualitative and quantitative) approach. In the qualitative section, the Delphi method was used and in the quantitative section, a descriptive survey method was used to analyze the univeristies status quo. The statistical population for the qualitative section included 20 persons and the quantitative section consisted of professors, managers and deputies of departments and colleges of macro-medical sciences universities summing up to 1851 individuals. Using purposeful sampling for the qualitative part, 13 persons and 320 individuals were selected for the quantitative part using stratified random sampling based on Cochran formula. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire on knowledge-based leadership with 91 questions and a scientific authority questionnaire with 60 questions were used. The exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equations were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that knowledge-based leadership had a relation with scientific authority with the standard coefficient of 0/845.

The impact of knowledge-based leadership on the scientific authority and internationalization of medical sciences universities was positive and significant, and the proposed model had a good fitness.