TY - JOUR T1 - Mangers Personality and their Leadership Style: Application of Five-factor Personality Model TT - شخصیت مدیران و سبک رهبری آنان: کاربرد مدل 5 عاملی شخصیت JF - sjimu JO - sjimu VL - 21 IS - 7 UR - http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-1611-en.html Y1 - 2014 SP - 234 EP - 241 KW - Leadership style KW - personality ty-pe KW - the big five factors KW - hospital managers N2 - Introduction: In spite of the fact that many factors affect the performance of orga-nizations, it is quite doubtless that leade-rship is one of the most important factors for organizations succession. Hospitals as complicated organizations require an effici-ent leadership, at gross or small levels, and. This study aimed to assess leadership style in the educational hospitals of Iran, Tehran and Shahid Beheshti Universities of medi-cal sciences and explore its relationship with personality type based on the five-fac-tor personality model. Materials & Methods: The present study was a correlation one. Statistical society of the research included managers working in the educational hospitals of Iran, Tehran and Shahid Beheshti Universities of medic-al sciences. The data was collected by an appropriate questionnaire. Managers Lead-ership Style was measured by Rensis-Likert questionnaire. Also, managers’ personality type was assayed by five big factors of Mckry Dody Kastav. For validating the q-uestionnaires, a content and technical validating method was applied. The reliabi-lity of the questionnaires was estimated by test-pretest method. Findings: The findings of study showed that conscientiousness personality type was the most frequent types (36.4%) in comp-arison with other personality type. There was a significant relationship between pe-rsonality type and leadership style (P=0.06). Discussion & Conclusion: Given the relati-onship between personality type and lea-dership style, it may predict the managers’ leadership style by using of their perso-nality type. M3 ER -