Abstract

Introduction: While coping with the future challenges for achieving high productivity,organizations have no choice but to win the trust and commitment of their staff. This is possible by job satisfaction. Participatory management is one of effective factors in job satisfaction. Method: This is a quasi-experimental study performed among nurses before and after the intervention in order to evaluate the effect of participatory management on job satisfaction of nurses working in CCU of a hospital in Zabol,Iran in 2013. The statistical population consisted of all nurses working in CCU. Data were collected using two questionnaires namely Demographic Questionnaire and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire designed according to Frederick Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory. The latter has 34 items of which 17 are related to the sanitary factors and 17 are related to the motivational factors. Job satisfaction of nurses was first assessed before the intervention. Participatory management was then performed according to the quality control circles. SPSS was employed to analyze the data. Results: The results showed that the mean scores of nurse job satisfaction (total sum of sanitary and motivational factors) increased from 88.71 to 97.35. Conclusion: The results showed that applying participatory management increases the nurse job satisfaction. It is recommended that policy makers increase the motivational programs in order to increase the participation of nurses. � 2016,International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. All rights reserved.