The relationship between communication skills and managers leadership styles (a case study on 2^nd district of Ardabil city managers, Iran)

The purpose of this study is to compare the relationship skills in terms of gender between the managers who follow task-oriented leadership style and those who follow relation-oriented leadership style. The statistical population consisted of 232 managers of Ardabil schools among which 147 managers were selected as the sample population via random sampling method. The measurement tools of this study were Lutans leadership styles and Barton. J. A communication skill questionnaires with reliability coefficients of.75 and.88 respectively which were fulfilled by the managers who were in the selected statistical population. The gathered data was analyzed using two-factor variance analysis test. The obtained results revealed that: a) there is no difference in relationship skills between the managers who follow different leadership styles; b) there is no difference in relationship skills between male managers and female managers and c) managers (separated by gender) have no significant difference in relationship skills with respect to their leadership styles.