The basic factor that every manager should consider is to influence employees in his field. The most unsuccessful managers are those who are incapable of employing, motivating and influencing their employees. The relationship between managers’ influence and intrinsic motivation strategies among employees of Islamic Azad University (IAU), Sanandaj Branch, is investigated in this research. The current research is considered as field study in terms of the objectives of the work and descriptive in terms of the methods employed. The results are quantitative and the data were collected in a limited period of time (cross-sectional). The research population consists of 116 employees of IAU, Sanandaj Branch. Indeed, data were collected using two questionnaires of penetration and intrinsic motivation and analyzed using SPSS software and appropriate statistical tests. The results obtained in this study indicate that the influence strategy based on compromise and persuasion has significant correlations with the intrinsic motivations of the employees with correlation coefficients of and 0.359, respectively. However, the influence strategy based on compulsion does not have a significant correlation (r2 = 0.072) with the employees’ intrinsic motivations.
