Presenting a Model of the Impact of Professional Capability on Evaluation of the Capability of Non-Faculty Employees of Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran Province

Investigating and evaluating the capability of employees can play an effective role in improving the position of the organization and creating a competitive advantage for it. Therefore, the aim of this study was to presenting a model of the impact of professional capability on the evaluation of the capability of non-faculty employees of Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province.

This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was all non-faculty employees of Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province in 2022 year (3069 people). The sample size was estimated to be 345 people based on the Krejci and Morgan table, who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The research tools were researcher-made questionnaires of professional capability of employees (19 items) and evaluation of the capability of employees (16 items), which their validity was confirmed by experts and their reliability with Cronbach's alpha method was obtained above 0.70. Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS-V23 and Lisrel-V8 software.

The findings showed that the professional capability of employees has five components of job meaningful feeling, job competence feeling, having the right to choose, effective feeling and participating with others and evaluation of the capability of employees has four components of knowledge and quality of work, initiative, cooperation and leadership; So that the factor loading of all components was higher than 0.80, the average variance extracted of all them was higher than 0.60 and the Cronbach's reliability of all them was higher than 0.70. Also, the model of the impact of professional capability on the evaluation of the capability of non-faculty employees of Islamic Azad Universities had a good fit, and the professional capability of employees had a direct and significant effect on the their evaluation capability (P<0.05).

Considering the positive effect of the professional capability of employees on their evaluation of the capability, specialists and planners of the Islamic Azad University to promote the professional capability of employees can improve their professional capability through educational workshops.