Investigation of relationship among personality traits, thinking styles and creativity with leadership styles of men and women managers

Asadpour, Zahra and Ghamari Givi, Hossein and Abolghasemi, Abbas (2008) Investigation of relationship among personality traits, thinking styles and creativity with leadership styles of men and women managers. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

This study aimed at determining the relationship among the leadership styles with personality traits, thinking styles and creativity of the men and women managers. The investigation carried out on the basis of ex post facto and correlation. The sample comprised the 100 organizational and educational managers of tabriz and ardebil cities that they were choice with simple sampling. The researcher used the Stenberg-Wagner thinking styles, the Hemphill and Coons LBDQ, the California personality inventory and Abedi’s creativity questionnaires for gathering the data to determine the manager’s leadership styles associated with the their personality, creativity and thinking styles, respectively. The findings manifested a significant relationship among presence of social in women managers and responsibility in men managers with task-oriented leadership styles, but there were a no significant relationship among others personality traits, thinking styles and creativity of the managers with their leadership styles. Further analysis of the data implied that there is significant relationship among some variables together.

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