چکیده:
The main objective of this research is to examine the relationship between the cognitive beliefs of managers and their attitudes towards strategic planning. In this study, a non-experimental, prospective, explanatory quantitative research method was used. The statistical population of the research includes presidents and vice-presidents of public, Azad Islamic, and medical science universities in Northeast Iran that were active in the academic year 1386-1387. Out of the total 82 presidents and vice-presidents of these universities, 54 responded to the relevant questionnaires. Due to the limited size of the statistical population, the census method was used instead of sampling. To collect data regarding cognitive beliefs, the 'Schommer Cognitive Beliefs Questionnaire' was used, and for the strategic planning section, the 'Attitude Assessment towards Strategic Planning' questionnaire was used. Regression analysis was used to analyze the obtained data. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the cognitive beliefs of managers and their attitudes towards strategic planning. Therefore, managers who perceive knowledge as relative, acquired, and complex, and view the process of learning it as gradual, showed more attention to strategic planning.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Since the early 1960s, research has aimed to examine the relationship between cognitive beliefs and learning [including Dweck and Leggett 2, 1988; Hammer, 1994, 3; Hofer and Pentrich, 1997; Schommer and Walker, 1994; Schraw, Dankle, and Bendexen 5, 1995] (Shabani, Varaki, 2003).
With these preliminaries, the main hypothesis of the research is formulated as follows: There is a direct and meaningful relationship between the cognitive beliefs of university managers and their attitude toward strategic planning.
Therefore, it is expected that managers, to the same extent that they possess progressive cognitive beliefs [meaning they perceive knowledge as a relative, complex, and acquired matter and the learning process as gradual], will have an equally positive attitude toward strategic planning.
To perform the cluster analysis, managers were examined based on the scores they obtained in the four components of cognitive beliefs (considering knowledge as simple, considering knowledge as absolute, innate learning ability, and rapid learning of the learning process), which resulted in them being divided into groups 1 and 2, as observed in Table 3.
From the results obtained from the research, it can be said that there is a significant linear relationship between managers' advanced epistemological beliefs and their attitude regarding strategic planning.
In this research, the beliefs of managers of universities in northeastern Iran regarding the simplicity, certainty, and essential nature of knowledge, as well as the speed of the learning process, and also the impact of these beliefs on their attitude toward strategic planning, were studied.
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