Relationship between Leadership Styles of Educational Department's Chairpersons and Morale's Faculty Members in Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Leadership is a process in which management seeks to motivate and communicate effectively، employee''s organizational tasks of interest and a desire to encourage and facilitate organizational goals. Higher education plays an important role in the improvement and development of individual and social life of individuals. One of the paths to judge how effectives'' university success and failure to achieving the objectives is the study morale of faculty members. This study sought to determine the relationship between the leadership styles of heads of departments and morale''s faculty members in Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. A descriptive correlation research method was utilized. The statistics include the total of university faculty members (491 people) and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (594 people) in during 2009-2010 academic years were selected through proportionate stratified random sampling. Research tools include questionnaire based on the goal setting theory''s House model (directive، supportive، participative، achievement oriental) and morale'' components (belongingness، rationality، identification) based on Getzels and Guba model questionnaire. The content and face validity using the validity and reliability through Cronbach''s alpha coefficient. (r1 = 0. 82) and (r2 = 0. 89) was calculated. The research data was analyzed through SPSS18 single sample t-test، Pearson''s correlation coefficient، multiple regression. In Isfahan University directive، supportive، participative leadership styles، mean scores were higher than mean criteria and achievement oriental leadership mean scores were lower than mean criteria and morale'' components (belongingness، rationality، identification) mean scores were higher than mean criteria. In Isfahan University of Medical Sciences participative leadership styles، mean scores were higher than mean criteria and directive، achievement oriental leadership styles mean scores were lower than mean criteria and morale'' components (belongingness، rationality، identification) mean scores were higher than mean criteria. Correlation coefficient between scores on leadership styles and morale''s faculty members in the Pvalue≤0. 05 was significant. And multiple regression results also showed that the relationship between leadership styles with morale''s faculty members is significant. Poor performance leadership led to increase crisis in the university. Training can be effective when people are with a strong spirit and strive to realize and achieve educational goals.