A Comparative Study on the Delegation of Authority by nursing managers of private and state-run hospitals of the city Isfahan in 2015-16

Abstract

Delegation of authority is one of the key required skills for managers which are carried out by delegating the necessary authority to subjects and subordinates to fulfill their duty and creating a sense of responsibility in them in return for fulfilling their duties. Therefore, managers should delegate the responsibility for affairs to others. On this ground, the present research is done with an aim of carry out a descriptive study on delegating authority to the hospital nurse managers in the private and state-run hospitals of the city Isfahan in the year 2015-16. This research is a descriptive-quantitative research in which eighty (80) nurse managers were selected through simple sampling and were studied. The data was collected through a Likert scale questionnaire and in the domains of the privileges of an effective delegation of authority, planning for the delegation of authority, implement the delegation of authority, and the existing obstacles in the way to delegation of authority and it was analyzed by means of descriptive and analytical statistics and in the SPSS software. The results indicated that the mean score for the item of the delegation of power by nursing managers of private hospitals is 3.44. Also, the mean score for the delegation of authority by nursing managers of state-run hospitals is 4.17 which at last it became evident that there is a difference between the effective delegation of powers in the state-run and private hospitals and the average (mean score) for the quantity of the effective delegation of authority in the state-run hospitals is higher than that of private-run hospitals. This study indicates that the delegation of authority in the state-run hospitals of Isfahan is higher than that of private-run hospitals that perhaps some reasons such as miscellaneous and specific codes which govern the private hospitals and also the absence of nursing managers' complete trust in their subordinates in such hospitals which leave more time for a greater consideration are among the factors influencing these results.