The Factors Related to the Employees’ Job Stress: A Meta-Analysis

Introduction: identification of the factors related to the employee’s job stress is very important in any organization, so in this study we investigated these factors by meta-analysis. methods: in this study, we searched the terms “job-related stress”, “employees’ job stress” and found 637 articles among seven english and five farsi databases. after reviewing and screening these articles, sixty-three articles were finally selected. the selection criteria were based on the surveys which had investigated the correlation between job-related stress and other variables; also, just the variables that were investigated in more than four studies were included in this meta-analysis. the meta-analysis was calculated based on the correlation coefficients integrated with job-related stress and sample size by stata 11 software, using rosenthal-robin method. results: the meta-analysis results suggested that seven variables had a significant relationship with the employees’ job-related stress (p<0.001). by increasing the workload, role conflict, role ambiguity, work-family conflicts, and total working hours per week increased the employees’ job stress, and conversely increased job satisfaction decreased the employees’ job stress; also, women were more exposed to job stress. conclusion: organizations should pay more attention to time management training; the staff benefits from these skills and can use them in their business affairs and organize large volumes of work and work-family conflicts in order to reduce the impact of these stressors to a large extent. also, description of the tasks that the employee is only obliged to carry out should be established.