Correlation between Effective Leadership and Organizational Excellence

This research aims to study the correlation between effective leadership and organizational excellence. The research methodology is descriptive-correlative and the population includes all of the faculty members of Islamic Azad University-Sari Branch and their number is 219 individuals. The statistical sample is based on the Krejcie and Morgan table and according to the sample size it is 140 individuals. Data collection tools include two questionnaires, standard questionnaire of leadership effectiveness, and Organizational Excellence questionnaire, and their reliability was measured through Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient (through SPSS software) for the effectiveness leadership questionnaire and the organizational excellence and it was respectively ?=0.93, and ?=0.96. In order to analyze data the frequency tables, column chart, mean, and SD were used in the descriptive statistics part and Pearson correlation coefficient, and regression were used in the inferential statistics part. Achieved results indicate that there is a correlation between effective leadership, participation, and commitment of human resources, education, and development of human resources, continuous quality improvement, customer care, result-orientation, and empowering human resources.