education organization

This study was aimed to identify and prioritize the dimensions and components of transformational leadership based on Fundamental Change Document. This research approach was mixed method. The populations in qualitative section involved faculty members, expert principals and staffs of the education organization and school principals. In quantitative part, involved all school principals and teachers of West Azerbaijan province of Iran in the academic year 2019-2020, which were about 26 thousand principals and teachers. Based on cluster sampling method, 378 principals and teachers were selected as a sample of study. The instruments in the qualitative part were semi-structured interviews; retesting and reliability between two coders were used to check the validity and reliability of the interviews and coding. The instruments in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by content. The reliability of the instrument was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha method. The grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data. One-sample t-test was used to analyze quantitative data. Findings revealed that; Dimensions of transformational educational leadership were classified into eight categories: Knowledge, attitude, personage, technical skills, ethical-value system, human relations skills, financial resource management, and social management. Also based on the opinion of principals and teachers, among the identified characteristics of transformational educational leaders, charismatic personality had the first priority, transformational attitude had the second priority and having managerial knowledge had the third priority.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide a model of organizational agility in Fars education departments with a digital transformation approach. Methodology: This study is applied research from the perspective of the purpose of agile modeling of education departments' digital transformation strategy. Based on the data collection method, it is mixed research that was done by qualitative-quantitative methods. The participants include experts familiar with the structure and organizational relationships in education. Using the purposive sampling method, 15 people participated in this study. The main tools for collecting data are interviews and questionnaires. The interview consisted of 6 initial questions in a semi-structured manner. Content analysis has been used to identify the underlying categories of the research. The structural-interpretive modeling method has been used to design the initial model. Data were performed in the qualitative phase with ATLAS TI software and the quantitative phase with MicMac software. Results: Using qualitative analysis, the views of experts were identified through content analysis, and 5 categories and 19 components were identified. Then, based on the interpretive structural model, a model was designed for organizational agility of the Department of Education. There are 5 main themes of maturity, visionary leadership, structural flexibility, knowledge-based and socialism, and 19 organizing themes in this model. Conclusion: Education as a knowledge-creating organization acts in a coordinated and directional manner by creating an agile environment, thus providing the necessary platform for increasing the flow of information to create new knowledge and increase added value in its economic fields.