The Relationship between the Performance of Managers and Employees Stress: a study on the employees of public organizations in Kerman in 2012

Subject Areas : Business Management

Maryam Mohammad zadeh ¹ , Behnaz Aflatoniyan ² , Mahmod Nekoye Mogadam ³ , Behnoosh Aflatoniyan ⁴ , Tahere Mohamadi pour najib ⁵

1 - Master of Public Administration, Researcher, Shahid Bahonar Hospital, Kerman, Iran
2 - Graduate Student of Sociology, Researcher of Infectious Diseases Research Center, HSR Research Committee and Zenoose Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Research Center for Health Services Management, Future Studies Research Center in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
4 - Project Management Engineer, Researcher, HSR Research Committee, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
5 - Graduate Student, Human Resources Management, Department of Management, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

Received: 2013-12-10 Accepted : 2014-08-31 Published : 2014-09-23

Keywords: Stress, Government organizations, Managers&rsquo, Performance,

Abstract :

Organizational stress, in addition to threatening employees’ health,adversely affects the quality and quantity of their performance. The aim ofthis study was to determine the relationship between the performance ofmanagers and employees’ stress in Kerman public organizations. The studywas a descriptive-correlation study performed after stratified randomsampling. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed among theemployees. To determine the correlation, Spearman correlation test, toanalyze the data log–linear analysis, and to compare the variables chi-squaretest were used. Data analysis was performed through spss18. There was asignificant relationship between employees’ stress and the performance ofmanagers. Stress was significantly higher among female, married, olderemployees, those with educational level of bachelor and higher and thosewith less than 20 years job experience. Regarding the importance of humanresources in the development of societies and in order to achieve the goals ofhealth system and sustainable development, policy makers and humanresource managers could implement strategies to increase the efficiency ofresource managers and their ability to benefit from available resources moreefficiently.

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