The study of the relationship between managers’ roles and motivation among personnel

Abstract

In addition to doing their organizational tasks, the managers play their roles such as interpersonal, communicative, and decision making roles. On the other hand, properly perceived management toward personnel’s motivation may also serve as a valuable tool in order to recognize the reasons for behavior in organizations and prediction of the impact of their administrative measures. In this sense, the current investigation deals with study on the relationship between the roles of managers and creation of motive among personnel. The research statistical population comprises of all personnel of Mashiz Gharzolhasaneh and saving fund branches in Kerman province (Iran) where 196 of them were chosen as sample group by means of statistical formula. Data were collected by means of questionnaire and with simple randomized sampling technique. Research findings showed that there is less correlation between interpersonal roles and creation of motive compared to managers’ roles while the maximum correlation corresponds to communicative roles and motivation. Similarly, there is also relatively high correlation between roles of decision making and motivation.