The Relationship between Antecedents and Processes of Unlearning and Organizational Innovation among Hamedan Teaching Hospitals

Introduction: Hospitals should provide necessary conditions for the renewal of knowledge, skill and attitude through unlearning. Thus, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between antecedents and processes of unlearning and organizational innovation among the teaching hospitals of Hamedan. Methods: This is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of the study included 1352 health personnel in four teaching hospitals of Hamedan. To select the administrative personnel, we used the total population; also, for physicians, and for the health personnel we used purposeful voluntary sampling and stratified random sampling, respectively. Based on the methods, 431 were selected as the subjects. Research instruments were unlearning researcher-made questionnaire and innovation scale. Data were analyzed through multivariate regression analysis and structural equation model using SPSS19 and LISREL 8.54 software. Results: The results indicated that organizational support and training, frequency of changes, and predictability of changes were the positive and significant predictors of the product, process and administrative dimensions. The group crisis was the negative and significant predictor of the product and administrative dimensions. Organizational memory was the positive and significant predictor of the administrative dimension. Individual processes, group processes, and organizational processes were the positive and significant predictors of organizational innovation. Conclusion: Based on the effective role of organizational support and training, organizational memory and frequency of changes and predictability of changes on innovation in teaching hospitals, it is suggested that the administrators and authorities of the hospitals should accept new opinions of their personnel

Investigating the Relationship between University Research Culture and Research Self-Efficacy of Graduate Students of Shiraz University: Intermediation of Ability to Academic Writing

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between university research culture and research self-efficacy of graduate students of shiraz university and intermediation of ability to academic writing. the research method was a descriptive correlational study. The research sample consisted of 297 graduate students of Shiraz University who were selected by Stratified random sampling method. The research tools included university research culture (Köksal & Razı, 2011), the ability to academic writing (Payne, 2012) and Research self-efficacy (Salehi et al, 2010). After calculating their validity and reliability, they were distributed among the samples and the data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings showed that the university research culture has a positive and significant effect on the ability to academic writing (β= 0/68, p› 0/001) and research self-efficacy (β= 0/22, p› 0/001). Also, the ability to academic writing has a positive and significant effect on Research self-efficacy (β= 0/52, p› 0/001). Also, the university research culture has an indirect and positive and significant effect on the research self-efficacy (β= 0/35, p› 0/001). Therefore, the indirect impact of the research culture of universities on creating a sense of research self-efficacy is more than their direct impact. Because the existence of research culture can be a factor in the development of the skills and abilities of individuals in the research and writing of scientific texts, this factor increases the feeling of self-efficacy by influencing the attitude of individuals in their capabilities

The role of digital informal learning in the relationship between students' digital competence and academic engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 crisis, digital informal learning is important for students' academic engagement. Although scholars have highlighted the importance of students' digital competence in improving digital informal learning (DIL), the mediating role of DIL between digital competence and academic engagement has remained ambiguous. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between students' digital competence and their academic engagement with the mediating role of DIL in the higher education context. This study used a descriptive correlational design, and the data were analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The study sample included 308 students from Shiraz University, Iran. The results showed that digital competence positively and significantly correlated with students' DIL and their academic engagement. Furthermore, DIL, as the mediator variable, was found to mediate the relationship between students' digital competence and their academic engagement. Since higher education institutions have a key role in improving students' academic engagement, particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic, academic administrators should pay more attention to students' digital competencies and provide them with efficient and user-friendly DIL platforms that can increase their academic engagement