This study was done to identify the relationship between the organizational characteristics of hospital nursing and job satisfaction. The factors used for the organization characteristics of hospital nursing were leadership of the head nurse, leadership of supervisor and others in higher authority positions with supervisors and organizational climate. The subjects consisted of 243 staff nurses from seven general hospitals in Seoul. The data was collected from August 1. to August 31. 1991. The tools used for measurement in this study were Park and Yoon's scale of the Perception of Organizational Characteristics and Stamp' Scale of the Job Satisfaction. The results are summarized as follows ; 1. There were significant differences between for the three nursing units organizational characteristic factors, leadership of supervisors, other higher authorities, interaction with supervisors and organizational climate and job satisfaction(p<0.05) 2. There was a correlation between organizational characteristics of hospital nursing and job satisfaction(r=0.32, -0.65) 3. There factor explaining the highest proportion of variance was interaction with supervisor. (39.8%) In conclusion, there was significant correlation between of the organizational characteristics hospital nursing and job satisfaction. And there were significant differences in the organizational characteristics of hospital nursing and job satisfaction for differences in the organizational characteristics of hospital nursing and job satisfaction for different nursing units.