Abstract:

Introduction: Effectiveness of a human factor which depends on their health, motivation, mood and obligation. Personnel’s efficiency who is satisfied with their job and those who are un satisfied has been an issue of discussion with managers.

The importance of nursing patients and providing treatment is obvious to the society. Increasing nurses^, job satisfaction promotes the quality of nursing care.

Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between nurses^, job satisfaction and their performance in nurses employed in hospitals of Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari province.

 Methods: This is a descriptive. Analytical study and it used JDI scale for job satisfaction and also performance evaluation form to assess satisfaction and performance. After data collection, statistical analysis was done by spss (Pearson’s correlation test and one-way variance analysis).

Results: Study findings showed no significant relationship between job satisfaction and performance using Pearson^’s correlation test (P>0.05) and also 5.8% were unsatisfied, 35.8% almost unsatisfied, 52.9% somewhat satisfied and 5.4% of samples were satisfied with their job. Most dissatisfaction was related to salary and least dissatisfaction was regarding colleagues.

Conclusion: The level of job satisfaction was low in nurses even though it was not satisficantly related to job performance.

It^’s necessary to take serious actions to promote job satisfaction and increase salaries.

Key words: Job satisfaction, Job performance, Nurse.