The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-organization of the managers and employees’ happiness. The statistical population of this study includes all of the supervisors and nurses of Hazrate Aliasghar and Noor hospitals in the city of Isfahan. This population consists of 17 supervisors and 220 nurses. All of the supervisors were surveyed and then 60 nurses were selected as sample members randomly. In order to collect the research data, the questionnaires of self-organization and the questionnaire of happiness have been employed. Face and descriptive validities have been used for examining validity of the questionnaire through AVE index. Also combinative reliability has been used for examining reliability of the questionnaire. The Cronbachs’ Alpha Coefficient was 0.90 for organizational self-esteem and 0.87 for happiness questionnaire. In order to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses, structural equation modeling and Pearson Correlation Coefficient has been used in Smart-PLS and PLS18. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between supervisors’ organizational self-esteem and the nurses’ happiness.
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