Comparison of public and private sector high rank managers’ personality structures in the base of health sector: Ankara sample

The aim of thesis is to determine the relation between personality characteristics and high rank management with managers? business sector. Fort his purpose, high rank managers? personality structures are researched who are on duty in public and private sector in the base of health sector in range of Ankara. In this research values about personality characteristics for 163 managers are obtained by using ?The Big Five Personality Factors Inventory?. Also these values are compared with both between two sectors (public ? private) and Turkey average. According to the obtained results, in subjects ?agreeableness? and ?neuroticism? from main factors of personality and in subjects ?compromise?, ?dependence to rules?, ?aptness to anxiety? and ?lack of self-confidence? from inferior factors of personality, there are evident differences between managers and general group. Discovered evident personality characteristics of high rank management are compatibility, emotional consistency, transigence, dependence to rules, remoteness to anxiety and selfconfidence. According to the results of comparison between public and private sectors, in subject ?neuroticism? from main factors and in subjects ?interaction by people?, ?emotional variation? and ?lack of self-confidence? from inferior factors, high level differences among managers is designated. Related to this, emotional inconsistency and variation have been further in public managers and private sector managers are determined as more selfconfident and stronger at interaction by people.