the managers' decision-making strategies and the staff's job satisfaction in isfahan hospitals

introduction: to run a hospital effectively, managers need to have proper decision-making strategies. the managers' decision-making strategies and the staff's job satisfaction are two major factors that allow the manager to achieve the planned objectives. therefore, in this paper, these two factors were studied. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the population of the study consisted of 7607 people among whom 384 people were selected based on stratified random sampling. two questionnaires were used to collect data and the data were analyzed based on descriptive and inferential statistics. results: the managers' decision-making strategies were determined as follows: individual decision-making (-3.01), consultation decision-making (- = 2.51), collective decision-making (- = 2.32) and cooperative decision-making (- = 2.16). there was no significant relationship between the staff's job satisfaction in public hospitals (- = 2.29) and their job satisfaction in private hospitals (- = 2.82). conclusion: the findings of the study revealed that in running hospitals, the managers' most frequently used individual decision making strategies. furthermore, the staff were less safisfied with this kind of decision making and more satisfied with other types of decision-making strategies used by hospital managers.