Identifying the Dimensions of the Intellectual Style of Professors with a Psychological Approach in Babol Universities

Universities and higher education centers are among the most important institutions in all countries, which are actually considered to train the workforce and citizens of every country. Therefore, the aim of the current research was to identify the dimensions of the intellectual style of professors with a psychological approach in Babol universities.

This practical study was conducted with a mixed approach using a qualitative and quantitative approach with an exploratory design. Delphi method was used in the qualitative part and descriptive survey method was used in the quantitative part. In the qualitative part, the statistical population includes professors of management fields who were experts in the field of the research subject, and 23 people were identified, 14 of them were selected by purposeful sampling and based on the saturation law, and 2100 people were managers and assistants of the units. Senior employees of Shahrvand Company were in the quantitative section, 325 of them were selected using random sampling method and based on Cochran's formula. In order to collect data, the researcher-made questionnaire of human resources strategy with the approach of the theory of strategic reference points and Lozier's ethical behavior questionnaire and Miles' organizational health questionnaire were used. The face and content validity of the tools were confirmed by the experts and their construct validity was calculated with a factor load of more than 0.5, which was confirmed. And their Cronbach's alpha was calculated above 0.7, which was confirmed. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Friedman test and structural equations were used to analyze the data. ). The review of past research shows that effective education has been and still is one of the most important long-standing concerns in the field of education. When it comes to education or higher education, concepts such as professor and teacher and especially teaching appear far more than other related variables to the extent that some people even equate teaching with education and They have considered education and education as excellent. Learning, as one of the most important educational goals, is a product of teaching. Also, considering the importance of the need of higher education centers to recognize the abilities of teachers and the factors affecting learning in the classroom and to examine the conditions and atmosphere of classroom learning, considering the current conditions of the country, the attention to variables such as: learning and intelligence is doubled. . Intellectual styles or thinking styles, which are sometimes also called rational styles, mean a person's preference in using a certain thinking process. Thinking style is not synonymous with ability, but the way of using ability; People may have similar abilities, but their thinking styles are different. In this regard, one of the fields that is strongly related to the structure of intelligence is the field of education and education, and it can be a predictor of learning and academic success. (2). One of the factors affecting the motivation and academic engagement of students is the thinking style of teachers and professors. Professors need special tools to motivate students; That is, the methods that lead to increasing, decreasing and correcting students' behaviors during daily teaching (3). Undoubtedly, the existence of leading professors with intellectual style is one of the fundamental efficient factors in the quality of higher education systems. Professors help students learn by using their knowledge, using texts and teaching skills and creating a suitable environment. It is the characteristics of a professor that can facilitate the teaching-learning process and even compensate for the deficiencies of textbooks and the lack of educational facilities or, on the contrary, the best situation and subject of teaching with the inability to create a favorable connection to an inactive environment and become unattractive (4). Organizational learning is a complex process that leads to the development of new knowledge and has the necessary power to change behavior in the organization. Organizational learning is a tool that can be considered in the process of adapting the organization to changes in the existing competitive environment (5). Intelligence is one of the important factors that plays a central role in our daily life. Many people with high intelligence and good social skills fail in international interactions, the main reason of which is low cultural intelligence. People with low cultural intelligence may not be able to communicate with others from the same culture or other cultures and as a result, have problems in their life and business(6). On the other hand, people with high cultural intelligence are able to interpret the behavior of others and even adapt to others' behavior if necessary. These people understand the cultural fences, they know that these fences can frame our behavior and that of others (7). Cognitive psychology considers the human brain to be a very complex learning machine with multiple and intertwined processes (8). This science tries to divide this incomprehensible complex system into different parts and pay attention to the function of each part.

The results showed that after performing three rounds of Delphi qualitative technique, 8 components described as performance management, human resource training, planning, human resource recruitment, organization, organizational culture, agile organizational structure and human resource retention for the resource strategy questionnaire. It was determined that the highest standard coefficient (0.911) was related to the human resource training component from the strategic dimension components and the lowest value was related to the human resource preservation component with a standard coefficient (0.471) from the set of strategic dimension components. Also, the "performance management" component had the highest rating with an average rating of 5.22.

In general, it can be acknowledged that identifying the dimensions of professors' thinking style with a psychological approach plays a significant role in Babol universities.