Effective Factors on The Job Stress of Faculty Members of Guilan University Of Medical Sciences: Organizational Justice and Work-Family Conflict

The faculty members of Universities experience significant level of job stress due to their multiple roles and responsibilities. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of organizational justice and work-family conflict in the job stress of academic staff members of Guilan University of Medical Sciences.

This is a cross-sectional and descriptive-correlational design study. The statistical population of this study comprised faculty members of Guilan University of Medical Sciences about 452. The participants were selected through convenience sampling, and 127 individuals were enrolled in the study. R. S. Eliot job stress (1994), Niehof & Moorman organizational justice (1993), and work-family conflict Carlson, Kacmar & Williams (2000) questionnaires were utilized for data collection. The data were analyzed via Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis with IBM SPSS.  

 There was a significant negative correlation between job stress and organizational justice (r = -0.324, P = 0.001). Moreover, a significant positive correlation exists between job stress and work-family conflict (r=0.620, P=0.001). The results of multiple analyses implied that job stress is significantly explained by organizational justice (b= -0.066, P=0.039) and work-family conflict (b=0.310, P=0.001) (P<0.001).

Universities, as a systematic social structure, in line with their human resource management, can increase their staff performance by identifying factors which lead to improvement in understanding of organizational justice and reducing job stress, by this the organizational efficiency can be risen.