Examining the Relationship between Managers' Personality Characteristics and Their Efficiency in Lorestan University of Medical Sciences in Year 2009

Abstract

Personality’s characteristics of managers play a major role in the performance of directors in that organization. Recent research approaches conducted in this field have insisted on the influence factors: extroversion, temperamental personality, openness, adaptability and conscientiousness on directors’ yield. The present study aiming to examine the relationship between personality’s characteristics and directors’ efficiency were designed and implemented in 2009 in Lorestan University of Basic Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was done by correlation way on 80 directors employ Medical Sciences University. Sampling was chosen according to Kerjesi- Morgan table by stratified proportional way. Research tool in the study was 5-factor personality questionnaire (NEO) and the range of a five-point Likert spectrum. Data was analyzed from the questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS software from descriptive statistics and inferential tests. 30-item questionnaire for managers’ efficiency was assessed using Cronbach's alpha and Likert scale. There was a positive (direct) relationship between personality’s characteristics and managers’ efficiency in University of Basic Medical Science (r= 0.274, p= 0.014), also relation of extroversion factor (P= 0.034), openness factor (P = 0.038), adjustment factor (P = 0.049), conscience factor (P = 0.008) with efficiency is direct and significant. But there was a significant and inverse relationship between neuroticism factor (P = 0.008) and efficiency. Personality characteristics explain twenty percent of managers’ efficiency. Above five-multiple personality characteristics are closely related to the managers’ efficiency. An effective and efficient management must possess features such as accountability, flexibility, connectivity and amiability and avoid also temperamental personality factors (neuroticism).