Does the Manager's 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. 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. 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 isnt significant positive relationship between age, marital status, education level, and work experience and job satisfaction and also there isnt significant positive relationship between Nursing Managers’ Delegation and nurse's job satisfaction. Delegation is not an effective management tool to increase nurse's job satisfaction.