Abstract
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the association between job satisfaction and management style in hospitals. The characteristic of management style contains five factors: management policy, work environment /job satisfaction, organizational management, personnel evaluation and training, and functional aggressiveness. Organizational management is the most influential factor in work environment/job satisfaction. Furthermore, organizational management is closely correlated with management policy.
Organizational management incorporates the following elements: leadership, relation between the supervisor and subordinate, and the setting of work objectives. Management policy includes these elements: the leaders' demonstration of organizational policy and ability to build concord between staff and management, and performance of each function based on management policy.
The results demonstrated that specific management style, specifically the leader's effort to clarify management policy, or his ability to support employees by helping them to understand management policy and to set their own job objectives, is vital in improving the job satisfaction of employees.
