Studying the Relationship between Personality Types and Leadership Style

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to study the relationship between the managers’ personality types and the leadership style of managers. The method is descriptive-correlational investigation and its goal is applied. The statistical universe includes all of the academic course managers of Tabriz 4th area of which 82 ones were selected randomly and the information was collected through standard questionnaires of personality type leadership style. To analyze the data, the descriptive- inferential statistical methods were used. The results indicate that there is no significant relationship between the emotional and intuitive extroversion and relation-oriented leadership style, the thinking extraversion as well as between the emotional, intuitive and thinking introversion and the relation-oriented leadership style. However, there is a relationship between the thinking and sensational extroversion and the relationship-oriented leadership style, the sensational and intuitive extroversion and functionalistic leadership style as well as between the emotional introversion and the relationship-oriented and functionalistic leadership style, and between the thinking, emotional and intuitive introversion and the functionalistic leadership style.