Relationship between organizational effectiveness and the personnel managers’ position of control in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: the main objective of all organizations is to improve theefficiency and effectiveness of the personnel’s performance and this partlydepends on effective management. managers are valuable assets and studyingtheir behavior and personality dimensions may provide important guide foreffectiveness and efficiency improvement. in this connection, the objectiveof this research is to determine the association between organizationaleffectiveness and the personnel managers’ position of control in shirazuniversity of medical sciences.methods: the present research is a cross-sectional study. the statisticalsocieties of this research included all personnel and personnel managers inshiraz university of medical sciences. 168 subjects of 8 departments wereselected through accidental-stratified sampling and the data for the managersof these departments were also collected. two questionnaires, organizationaleffectiveness and ratters’ position of control, were used for data collection.results: the results of this research showed that there was a significantassociation between organizational effectiveness and managers’ position ofcontrol. however, we didn’t find a statistically significant association betweenorganizational effectiveness and managers’ position of control in terms of theirsex, managerial experience and education.conclusion: as managers with internal position of control are more effectivethan those with external position of control, we can appoint individuals withinternal control position to managerial posts. furthermore, we can trainmanagers to shift their external position of control to the internal one.