Self-esteem is considered as emotional response and general feeling about the self. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand feelings and emotions, put them in a ways that make emotion and intelligent mature and healthy. The aim of the study to explore the relationship between self esteem and emotional intelligence among nursing managers, Research design: descriptive correlational research design used in this study. Setting: The present study conducted at Sohag and Damanhour University Hospitals. Subjects: 72 nursing mangers at two study setting 36 for each. Tools: the tools used in the study demographic data sheet, self esteem scale, and Emotional Intelligence questionnaire. Results: The highest percentage was low self esteem at sohag (52.8%) and Damanhour (44.4%), and they were low emotional intelligence at sohag (47.2%) and Damanhour (33.3%). Conclusion: There were highly positive correlation between all studied variable and highly significant difference between mean scores related to self-esteem and emotional intelligence items and total of studied nursing managers at Sohag and Damanhour hospitals with p value <0.01. Recommendations: provide emotional skills training, try to build relationships with positive people, and learn to be assertive