TY - JOUR JF - MJIRI JO - Med J Islam Repub Iran VL - 30 IS - 1 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/1/01 TI - The relationship between hospital managers' leadership style and effectiveness with passing managerial training courses TT - N2 - Background: Effective leadership that rises from managerial training courses is highly constructive in managing hospitals more effectively. This study aims at investigating the relationship between leadership effectiveness with providing management training courses for hospital managers. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried out on top and middle managers of 16 hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences. As a sample, 96 participants were selected through census method. Data were collected using leadership effectiveness and style questionnaire, whose validity and reliability were certified in previous studies. Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regressions were used for data analysis. Results: Leadership effectiveness score was estimated to be 4.36, showing a suitable status for managers' leadership effectiveness compared to the set criteria. No significant difference was found between leadership effectiveness and styles among managers who had passed the training courses with those who had not (p>0.05). Conclusion: Passing managerial training courses may have no significant effect on managers' leadership effectiveness, but there may be some other variables which should be meticulously studied. SP - 1219 EP - 1224 AU - Sarabi Asiabar, Ali AU - Saleh Ardestani, Abbas AU - Ebadifard Azar, Farbod AU - Abtahi, Seyyed Ali AD - Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Faculty of Management, Tehran, Iran. KW - Leadership Effectiveness KW - Leadership Style KW - Hospital Management KW - Managerial Trainings. UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-4173-en.html ER -