چکیده:
Purpose: The Covid-19 pandemic has created many challenges for higher education institutions. As a result, the aim of this study was to designing the resilience pattern of higher education institutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic based on grounded theory.
Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The statistical population of the present study was all postgraduate education students, staff and professors of Islamic Azad Universities in Tehran city. The sample size of this study was determined according to the principle of theoretical saturation 29 people who were selected by the purposive sampling method and were underwent to a semi-structured interview. The validity of the interviews was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was obtained by the agreement coefficient method between the two coders 0.72. The data obtained from semi-structured interviews were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding method in Atlas TI software version 9.
Findings: The analysis showed that the resilience pattern of higher education institutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic had 189 concepts, 39 subcategories and 10 main categories based on the grounded theory. In this pattern, the central phenomenon was the resilient response of higher education institutions to the Covid-19 pandemic, and in that causal condition there are 3 main categories including individual (with 6 subcategories and 29 concepts), organizational (with 7 subcategories and 41 concepts) and social (with 3 subcategories and 11 concepts), intervening conditions there are one main category including national factors (with 4 subcategories and 18 concepts), contextual conditions there are one main category including global contexts (with 4 subcategories and 16 concepts), strategies there are 3 main categories including prediction and prevention (with 3 subcategories and 17 concepts), response and coping (with 5 subcategories and 24 concepts) and adaptation (with 3 subcategories and 18 concepts) and consequences there are two main categories including consequences short-term (with 2 subcategories and 8 concepts) and long-term consequences (with 2 subcategories and 7 concepts). Finally, the resilience pattern of higher education institutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic based on grounded theory was designed.
Conclusion: Based on the findings, experts and planners of higher education institutions in critical situations such as Covid-19 pandemic can take advantage of the designed resilience pattern of higher education institutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and deal with it appropriately. Therefore, the readiness of higher education institutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic needs to improve resilience, and this resilience is not limited to the organization and its employees, but also to students and other factors resulting from this research.