RESUMEN
Compatibility between hospitals manager's career and their personality could assured job performance improvement. Personality tests are used to determine management hospital's manager's type of personality compatible with their career. This research is aimed to study hospital managers personality types with their management career at one of the largest University of Medical Sciences in Iran. A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted among 210 of the hospital departments managers by James Barrett's personality type questionnaire compatible with their management career. Before the beginning of the main survey, the face and coincidental validity and reliability of questionnaire and also test-retest technic was performed and reliability coefficient was high. The data was collected by SPSS software and analyzed by Chi-Square and Kruskal-Wallis test. Most of the paraclinical managers were retired and emotional, and most of the hospital administrators were realistic and cautions. We demonstrated that hospital administrators were more compatible with their career. But, it seems, most of the studied manager's type of personality were not compatible with their careers. Although, compatibility testing is not the only procedure to select the candidates of management career, but we suggest this test and other recruitment tests are conducted to select the candidates for management career in all hospitals of Iran