DOES THE MANAGERS’ DELEGATION IN THE VIEW OF NURSES AFFECT THE JOB SATISFACTION OF NURSES?

In recent years, job satisfaction, employee empowerment and participation in
decision-making process is crucial issue for successions of organization. The aim of this study was to
determine the correlation between Nursing Managers’ Delegation and Nurses’ job satisfaction from the
Viewpoint of Nurses.
Materials & Methods: This study is a descriptive – correlation study. Statistical data in this research
includes nurses (2120 members) Working in Hospitals affiliated to Medical University of Isfahan. out of
which 260 nurses were selected randomly. Data collection tools in this research are two questionnaires:
the first one is "Delegation by Managers" designed by researchers, and the other one is "Herzberg job
satisfaction" questionnaires .The data has been analyzed by statistical software named SPSS version 19.
Results: The findings of the study show that the nurses’ perspective (view) about Managers’ Delegation
was 52.7%. In other words, it is in average level .In this study 8/33% of subject had was low level of Job
satisfaction, 2/56 percent had average level of Job satisfaction, and 10% had high levels of Job
satisfaction (7/41 ± 01/19). This study demonstrates there isn't significant positive relationship between
age, marital status, education level, and work experience and job satisfaction and also there isn't
significant positive relationship between Nursing Managers’ Delegation and nurses' job satisfaction.
Conclusion: Delegation is not an effective management tool to increase nurses' job satisfaction