چكيده لاتين :
This research has tried to find most proper I adership styles based on a approved model to direct hospital manpower appropriately.
The main object ive of this research was the comparison between managerיs exi ting leadersh ip styles and suggested
styles to them in order to direct existing -t les toward suggested ones. In thi cross- ectional study all Qom province
hospital managers participated. From the hospital the staff. 385 persons werc selected by randomiz ed stratifying sampling .
Data were collected by two types of validated questionnaires, one for the staff and another for managers, and analyzed by
SPSS software. The finding showed that among four types of leadership styles, 7 % of managerיs leadership tyle was
"consultative" and rest were "exploitative- authoritative" or "benevolent- authoritative", but in the view of about 78% of the
staff, managerי s leadership style was "benevolent- authoritative" and only 0.8% of them believed that managerי style wa
participative .In general, based on the staff point of view, managers behaved less participative. On the other hand, Tannenbaum
and Schmidt leadership style continuum model proved that the best leadership tyle for all the hospital managers
was the "consultative" one. It can be concluded that there was 25% gap between existing leadership style and suggested
ones and it should be tried to close thi gap as far as posible.
