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.

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