An Examination and Analysis of Employees' Job Stress in Gas Refinery company of Ilam

  Job stress is a harmful physical and mental response that occurs when job requirements have no correspondences to the capabilities, supports, and individual needs of employee. In addition to having some negative effects on physical and psychological health, it may reduce his efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Therefore, present study has conducted with the aim of examining and analyzing employees' job stress in gas Refinery Company of Ilam. This study is a descriptive survey, whose population consists of 230 employees working in Ilam gas Refinery Company. Simple random sampling was applied, whose sample size of 140 subjects was obtained using Krejcie and Morgan table. In order to data collecting, the questionnaire provided by researcher was applied, whose validity was confirmed by management experts. Obtained Cronbach Alpha was80% indicating its reliability. In order to examining significance of research questions, t test and explorative factor analysis was applied. Data was analyzed using SPSS. The results of research show that personal and group factors and also out-organizational factors have effect on job stress, but outer-organizational factors had no significant effect on employees' job stress and the level of employees' stress id medium

The Impact of Consuming Petroleum Products on Economic Growth and Regional Convergence in Iran

One of important subjects considered in models of economic growth is convergence hypothesis. It posits that if different regions have identical levels of log-term equilibrium per capita GDP, the poor regions would have higher rate of per capita GDP growth than rich ones. Therefore the more poor regions would converge towards richer regions in terms of economic conditions. However, since determining factors for long term per capita GDP is not the same in all of regions, the conditional convergence is suggested. This hypothesis states that farer regions from long term per capita GDP would have higher rate of per capita GDP. Since determining factors on economic growth can influence on convergence process, the impact of consuming petroleum products as a determining variable on economic growth has been studied. The model of Barro and Sala-I-Martin was applied in order to examine convergence and the impact of consuming petroleum products on convergence and also reduction of regional inequality among Iran's provinces from 2000 through 2011. Results indicated that there is an unconditional convergence among Iran's provinces and also variables of gasoline, diesel, and Mazut (fuel oil) have significant impact on economic growth and lead to negative convergence among Iran's province. Hence, respecting these results it can be concluded that using energy subsides cannot reduce regional inequality. &nbsp

An Examination and Analysis of Employees' Job Stress in Gas Refinery Company of Ilam

The aim of the study is to investigate and analyze employees' job stress and also to find out the drivers for job stress, which contribute to create job stress which ultimately reduce efficiency. The study is mainly based on review of the existing literature and collection of data through an adopted questionnaire survey, conducted from the selected sample of employees working in Ilam gas Refinery Company.140 employees were selected among 230 subjects of population using simple sample way, which are suitable for analysis purpose respecting Kerjcie and Morgan table. In order to examining significance of research questions, t test and explorative factor analysis was applied. The results of research show that personal, group and out-organizational factors have effect on job stress, but outerorganizational factors had no significant effect on employees' job stress and also, the level of employees' stress si medium. The implications of the paper include implementation of the results provided by researcher to decrease the employees' level of stress. The study is conduced first time in the field specifically highlighting the stress factor. It can be a base for the future research in this area