Introduction: In
recent years, numerous organizations have been engaged in increase of job
satisfaction, staff empowerment process and partnership in decision making. The
aim of this study was to determine correlation between delegation and job
satisfaction in nurses.
Materials
and methods: In
this descriptive-correlation study, all nurses of Isfahan Dr Ali Shariati
hospital participated in the study samples. Delegation and job satisfaction
were the main variables of study.Data
were collected by demographic questionnaire, Rowntree Delegation Checklist and
Kendall & Hulin Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. Internal consistencies of
the instruments were approved 0/70 for Rowntree Delegation Checklist and 0/80
for Kendall Hulin Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS 17
software using Independent student T test and Spearman test.
Findings:
From
102 nurses, who participated in this study, 53/9% were woman and 46/1% were
male. Result indicated that there was no significant correlation between
delegation and job satisfaction (r= -0/022 p= 0/826).
Conclusion:
The
result of the study showed that delegation might not be an effective management
tool for job satisfaction improvement in nursing staff.However, more studies are suggested for
future.
Kafami F, Mousavi SQ, Mohsen poor M, Ghanbari V. Survey the relationship between delegation and job satisfaction in nurses. JHPM 2012; 1 (2) :29-34 URL: http://jhpm.ir/article-1-62-en.html