The Impact of Managerial Personalities on Managerial Roles – A Study on Hospital Managers

What is the personality types, which features and how to reflect the personality of individuals in business life, both psychology and organizational behavior science has always been a subject of curiosity. Therefore, the scope of the research is to determine whether there is a relationship between these personality types and their roles in managerial activities for managers and how much personality affects which role. Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of personality types on executive roles in various managerial positions in hospital and to determine whether there is a relationship between personality types and executive roles, and if there is a relationship between which personality type and which executive role. This study is one of the first study in the context of determining the relationship and effect between managerial roles and personalities of managers. This study is observational, cross-sectional and descriptive. The questionnaire was used as the data collection tool and it was applied to the participants in 298 executive positions, public and private health sector. In the study, 15% of personality types had a leadership role; 13% in the role of external representation; 5% to the entrepreneurial role; 6% for follower role, 10% for resource provider role; 12% effect on the role of spokesperson. Responsibility dimension of personality types; leadership, external representation, resource provider iii and spokesman roles; compatibility dimension to the role of the spokesperson; balance size; leadership, resource provider and spokesman role; the dimension of openness to experience, to all executive roles except the spokesperson; extroversion dimension affects leadership, external representation, entrepreneur and follower roles. In line with the findings of the study, it is thought that the effect of personality types on the managerial roles needed may constitute a criterion in the selection of managers and the study will shed light on the new studies to be done on this subject.