Abstract

The Relationship Between Leadership Styles and Personality Traits of Nursery Managers of Hospitals Affiliated to Tehran Medical Sciences Universities

Background: Nursing and health care, will be challenged to respond the changing needs of people and changing nature society and this requires that nurses are in managerial roles until nurses needs management and support for continuing professional development. This study was developed to investigate the relationship between leadership styles and personality traits of nursery managers of hospitals affiliated to Tehran Medical Sciences Universities.
Method: It’s descriptive correlational. Multi-stage sampling 140 nursery managers affiliated hospitals of Tehran Medical Sciences Universities was selected. The data collection tools are the three standard questionnaires leadership style and personality traits and demographic properties. The Cronbach’s alpha reliability were calculated for leadership style questionnaire 0.86 and personality traits 0.88 and analyzed by spss19 data analysis was descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: More nursery managers are commanding leadership style and personality traits of extroversion, conscientiousness, liberal leadership style with extraversion and conscientiousness personality traits, and commanding leadership style with extraversion, openness, Adaptability and conscientiousness personality traits, and modulated leadership style with the of extraversion, openness and conscientiousness personality traits are significant inverse relationship.
Conclusion: Based on research findings leadership styles and personality traits are significant relationship, there by the personality traits score may be predicted leadership style of a manager’s future that it’s good way selection of personal with more effective leadership style and optimization management organization..

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