Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify and prioritize the effective factors on professional ‎development of Faculty Members and presents a framework of factors that affect this process. ‎The method of study is mixed exploratory method. In qualitative phase, by semi-structured ‎interview with 15 key informants, effective factors on faculty development were identified and ‎classified. In the second phase, the views of 282 faculty members of Tehran University were ‎collected via questionnaire. The results show that two types of factors are identified including ‎personal factors and organizational factors. Among personal factors, personality ‎characteristics had the highest importance and then there are motivation, scientific ‎background, professional commitment, and responsibility. Among organizational factors, ‎organizational climate had the highest priority and then there are career system, management, ‎development opportunity, structural factors, and subsistence factors‎‎‎‎‎‎‎.