The purpose of this study was to investigate the role motivation of non-academics managers in a large provincial university in the northeast of Iran. A stratified sampling method was used to collect data from 101 managers who completed the Miners' questionnaire consist of seven role-motivation dimensions. To examine the study hypotheses, variance analysis, tstudent, linear regression and kruskal-wallis tests were performed. The results revealed that the mean of managerial motivation scores were not equally distributed, but the results of simultaneous comparison showed that the motivation dimensions with equal means can be divided to four groups. Further, it was found that there is no meaningful difference between mean of managers' motivational scores, but gender makes a meaningful difference in the mean of motivation scores, as female managers showed higher motivation potency compared their male counterparts. Further, competitive activities and imposing wishes recorded the highest and lowest share of managerial role-motivation respectively.

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