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A social work study on measuring the impact of age and job title on stress: A case study of hydro-power employees
, Available Online, May 18 Akbar Iravani, Mohammad Reza Iravani Gholamali Iravani, Mahdi Khorvash and Seyed Esmael Mosavi |
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Abstract: The study performs an empirical study based on the implementation of ANOVA and LSD tests to measure the impact of stress among people with different job titles and ages in a hydropower unit located in city of Esfahan, Iran. The study performed the survey among all 81 people who were working for customer service section of this company and consisted of two parts, in the first part; we gather all private information such as age, gender, education, job experience, etc. through seven important questions. In the second part of the survey, there were 66 questions, which included all the relevant factors impacting employees' stress. Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.946, which is well above the minimum acceptable level. The implementation of ANOVA and LSD tests have revealed that there are no meaning differences among people with different job titles but people in different age groups maintained various level of stress. DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.05.020 Keywords: Stress, Job satisfaction, Employee performance, Working conditions |
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An empirical study to measure the relationship between management style and conflict management
, Available Online, May 17 Saeed Moghaddas Pour Alireza Bakhshi Zadeh and Elham Barati |
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Abstract: Leadership plays an important role among five main components of management. These days, many organizations try to resolve any existing conflicts through adapting an appropriate leadership strategy. During the past few years, there are increasing interests in examining the relationship between management style and conflict management. The proposed study of this paper performs an empirical study to find the relationship between relationship-oriented leadership style and solution-oriented strategy as well as between leadership style and conflict management. The proposed study distributed a questionnaire among 43 managers who were in different industries in west part of Iran. Most of the people who participated in our survey were male and they were between 25 to 30 years old. The study considers relationship between leadership style and conflict management, which includes the relationship between relationship-oriented and task-oriented leaderships with avoiding conflict management strategy, solution and control based conflict managements. The results confirmed that there is only a meaningful relationship between relationship-oriented leadership with solution-based conflict management. In other words, our survey indicates that when there is a conflict, management can handle the problem using his/her relationship and find appropriate solution to resolve any possible conflict. DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.05.019 Keywords: Leadership style, Conflict management, Task-oriented leadership, Relationship-oriented leadership |
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