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

Organizational stress, in addition to threatening employees’ health, adversely affects the quality and quantity of their performance. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the performance of managers and employees’ stress in Kerman public organizations. The study was a descriptive-correlation study performed after stratified random sampling. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed among the employees. To determine the correlation, Spearman correlation test, to analyze the data log–linear analysis, and to compare the variables chi-square test were used. Data analysis was performed through spss18. There was a significant relationship between employees’ stress and the performance ofmanagers. Stress was significantly higher among female, married, older employees, those with educational level of bachelor and higher and those with less than 20 years job experience. Regarding the importance of human resources in the development of societies and in order to achieve the goals of health system and sustainable development, policy makers and human resource managers could implement strategies to increase the efficiency of resource managers and their ability to benefit from available resources more efficiently.