Relationship between Organizational Stress sources with Job Stress in Mazandaran's Gas Corporation Employees

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between organizational stress sources with job stress in Mazandaran's Gas Corporation employees. The research was descriptive, correlation. The statistical population was all staff's (423 people) of Mazandaran Gas company in 2010 and statistical sample was 205, which selected by stratified random method (according to the region). In order to gather the data, two questionnaires were used: Job stress questionnaire and standardized stress sources questionnaire. Face and content validity of the questionnaires was reviewed and confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients were calculated as 0.84 and 0.83 respectively. In order to analyze data, Pearson’s Correlation test and Multiple Regression were used. The result showed that organizational demands, relationship, colleagues' support, role characteristic, manager supports and work changes had significant relationship with job stress and there were no significant relationship between authorities and physical environment. Also organizational demands, relationship and role characteristic had power to predict employee`s job stress. It should be noted that stress is a very serious issues in today's organizations that can impose threatens the health of workforces and costs to the organization. So managers should moderate the workplace stressors by preventive actions.