The Analysis of Relationship between Conflicting Management Styles and the Personnel Preativity in the Islamic Azad University of Tabriz

Subject Areas : Business Management

Soleyman Iranzadeh ¹ , Gader Zemestani ² , Mehdi Pakdel Bonab ³ , Sadegh Babaye heravi ⁴

1 - Academic Member (Associate Professor) Industrial Management Group, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Ph.D. in Management, University of Ghazi, Ankara, Turkey
3 - Club of Young and Elite Researchers, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
4 - Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Young Researchers Club, Tabriz, Iran

Received: 2011-05-07 Accepted : 2012-03-09 Published : 2012-05-21

Keywords: Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, Conflicting Management Styles, Creativity of the Personnel,

Abstract :

This study tries to investigate the relationship between Conflicting Management Styles and the Personnel Preativity in the Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in the year 2012. It takes a descriptive and cooperative method of analysis aiming at the applicable aspects. The population of the present study includes administrators of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, namely, faculty adminstrators, vice presidents and the heads of educational boards. This population covers 32 members of the mentioned adminstrators and 699 personnel of the university. The sampling method of the study for adminstrators is all-enclusive [32] while covering a number of 248 random personnels. The tools for the data analysis includes 2 standard and authentic questionnairs for conflicting management. The conflicting management questinnaire contains 30 questions to identify Conflicting Management Styles of the these adminstrators (competing style, accomodating style, avoiding style, cooperation style, and compromising style). İn addition, the creativity questionnaire includes 50 creativity questions to identify the creativity amount of the personnel. To analyze the data Pearson correlation test and T-test have been applied. The results indicate that there is a meaningful reverse statistical correlation between the adminstrators’ competeng style and the creativity of the personnel. There is also a meaningful positive correlation between accomodating style, compromising style, educational levels and the working experiences of the personnel. There is no meaningful correlation between avoiding style and cooperation style of the adminstrators and the creativity of the personnel. Moreover, conflicting management styles of the adminstrators of the Islamic Azad University of Tabriz are not different from each other based on the genders of the adminstrators.  

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