Arts & Humanities Journal

Title: Investigation of Managers' Thinking Styles in University of Medical Sciences

Abstract:

This study aimed to evaluate thinking style of university administrators. This research is descriptive and correlational study with population of 52 male and female managers and 1300 employees were men and women of Zabol University of Medical Sciences that sample size was selected 300 employees by using stratified random Morgan and 52 managers. To measure thinking style, Sternberg's Thinking Styles Questionnaire – Wagner was used that its reliability was obtained 0.91 by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The data were analyzed by statistics such as mean, t-test and one-way analysis of variance. The results of study showed that managers' thinking styles from the highest to the lowest are: Judicial, introspective, detailed, overall, the legislator, outthinking, liberal, conservative and executive. The results of the survey questions related to demographic variables showed that there is meaningful difference in male and female managers' introspective thinking style. In other thinking styles between male and female managers was not significant. According to education level of managers and holistic thinking style differences were observed only in connection with service managers, managers thought there was no significant difference in styles.