Analyzing the Strategic Approach of Female Academic Elites with an Emphasis on the Four Major Components

The present research, using a mixed research design (qualitative and quantitative), has focused on the design of a paradigmatic model of the competency of female academic managers with an emphasis on the four macro components. In order to collect data, interviews with informants were used in the qualitative step, and questionnaires from the qualitative step of the research were used in the quantitative step. Brown and Clark's (2006) theme and pattern analysis method was used to analyze the data in the qualitative step and the content validity ratio index (CVR & CVI) was used in the quantitative step. The findings of the theme analysis about the competencies of female academic managers are presented in 4 main themes, 1-specialized competencies, 2-personal competencies, 3-executive competencies, 4-managerial competencies, and 25 sub-themes. In the quantitative step, the percentage of the appropriateness of open codes for 15 experts is 0.49%, according to the CVR statistics, all competency themes had good content validity from the experts' point of view. The results of the present research showed that the female university managers of the country, by accepting the fact that success in today's university management conditions for Iranian women is the use of existing human resources competencies.