Background: To maintain their survival, organizations are forced to keep pace with the changes that occur. Participative management could be one way of reducing resistance to change by increased participation and commitment of the employees. The present study aimed to evaluate the relationship between participative management and resistance to change from the perspective of administrators at educational hospitals of Yazd in 2013.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional and analytical study performed in 2013. The subjects consisted of 81 senior, middle, and operational managers working in educational hospitals of Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. Data were gathered through 2 questionnaires of participative management and resistance to change. The reliabilities were assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient to be 0.78 and 0.70, respectively. The data were analyzed using SPSS ₁₉, and Pearson correlation coefficient test.
Results: The findings showed an inverse relationship between participative management and resistance to change which was meaningful (p ˂ 0.05, r = - 0.300). Also, 2 parameters of participative management including participation in implementation (p ˂ 0.05, r = - 0.325), and control and supervision (p ˂ 0.05, r = - 0.292) indicated an inverse significant correlation with resistance to change.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study applying participative management could be an appropriate and beneficial strategy to reduce staff resistance to change.

Background: The role of entrepreneurship as an important economic phenomenon is obvious. Since each community is involved in the production of wealth as well as development of technology, and productive employment, special attention should be paid to entrepreneurship. In this regard, this study aimed to investigate the status of entrepreneurship among students of healthcare management in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014. The population included all healthcare management MSc and BSc students in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences (n = 80). Furthermore, the required data were gathered by using a standard questionnaire; the validity and reliability of which have already proven. Data were then analyzed by descriptive statistical methods in SPSS _16.
Results: Among dimensions of entrepreneurship, the highest average belonged to the internal control with the mean score of 3.93 ± 0.59, while dimension of risk sharing had the lowest average by mean  score of 3.20 ± 0.61. According to Pearson correlation coefficient a significant correlation was observed between dimensions of risk sharing and independence (p = 0.001) and also between the dimensions of achievement (p = 0.001) and internal control (p = 0.003).
Conclusion: Since students have good rates of determination, their spirits can be nourished with creativity, achievement motivation, risk taking, and independence through entrepreneurship education, especially behavioral education. It is obvious that the purpose of entrepreneurship educations can be noted as transferring knowledge and building skills in students. Finally, this training should create an entrepreneurial attitude in them.