The relationship among transformational and transactional leadership styles and personality of Physical education (P.E) faculty manager's in Iranian universities

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership styles with the personality of Physical education (P.E) faculty manager`s in Iranian universities. Research method was a correlation and the statistical population (N=64) included all the managers and assistants of Physical Education Colleges in Iran. Data collection tool was the multi factorial leadership questionnaire MLQ, Bass (2006), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (GEPQ) and in a pilot study, the Cronbach's Alpha, were respectively estimated as 0.90 and 0.88. To analyze data descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Results indicate that the change-oriented leadership style correlated with the extraversion personality correlated negatively and meaningfully (r=-0.577, p=0.001) and correlated significantly and positively with introversion personality dimension (r=0.547, p=0.001). Furthermore, there is a negative correlation between the action-oriented leadership style and the extraversion personality (r=-0.251, p=0.046) and there is no significant statistical relationship between stability, instability and introversion. The results of stepwise multiple regression showed that the only significant extraversion component is meaningful prediction in the development-oriented leadership style. With respect to the correlation of introversion and extroversion in choosing the leading style of managers and having understood that the personal characteristics make people do different actions and have different behaviors in different situations. According to the personality of managers, can place them in proper positions in an organization and take steps to determine appropriate managers.