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Intreduction: Nowadays, organizational eultcure plays an important role in the process of developing and reconstructing an organization. The selection of an appropriate leadership style by the manager has an significant impact on the development and establishment of a favorable oragnizational culture wich pares the ground for the organization to comete with others. Metheds and materials: The is a descriptive study in which 28 managers including the bosses and their deputies in Isfahan university of Medical sciences were selected in census. The data were collected by two questionnaires one for organizational culture and one for leadership style. The validity and reliability of the questionnairs were examined. Both deseriptive (e.g percentage of frequency) and inferential statistics (e.g.chi.square, fisher-man exact test, Mann-Withn ey) were used to analyze the data spss soft ware. Results: The leadership style was freqnently eoeperative in this study. The was a peweful organizational culture prevailing and there was no relatienship between the manager ¨s leadership style and different organizational cultures due to lack of variety of leadership styles and their demographie fealures. And neither was any relationship between different kinds of organizational cultures and the manager’s demographic features when p is less than 0.05. Discussion: The findings revealed that the managers did not have enough varieties in their leadership styles. The managers should by able to choose an appropriate leadership. style according to the specifie sityation he encounters. Key words: organizational culture, leadership style, manager.
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